Tony Scudder Walking and talking movies since the 70's
CABIN IN THE WOODS Most anticipated 2012 movie (RELEASED 13th April)
TOWER HEIST UNIVERSAL RELEASED 2nd November Ben Stiller could do with getting his career back on track (‘Little Fockers’ and ‘Night at the Museum 2′ suggest someone who’s given up on life) whilst Eddie Murphy fans have been hoping for a career-boost since the last century. Director Brett ‘hack’ Ratner’s last two films (‘Rush Hour [...]
This is what I thought back in 1998. ‘Mimic’ sees husband and wife scientists (played by Mira Sorvino and Jeremy Northam) engineer bugs as a counter-agent to a disease carried by cockroaches that afflicts the children of New York. The new genetically-altered bugs, the ‘Judas Breed’, are introduced to the city’s Biosystem (sewers to you [...]
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION Released 20 July 1977 PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING REVIEW IS A COMPLETE, SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW OF THE FILM (hey, it came out in the 70’s, whaddaya mean you haven’t seen it!) We’re on a British submarine. The guy on the right is Kevin McNally, known to modern audiences [...]
ANONYMOUS SONY RELEASED 28 October 2011 Any film disputing Shakespeare as the author of his life’s work, not to mention portraying him as a drunken, lecherous, illiterate buffoon (or a ‘cock’, if you will) is going to face an uphill battle from the start. Add in the fact that it’s directed by Roland ‘boom’ Emmerich [...]
From those exciting Secret Cinema people comes the Future Shorts Global Pop-up Film Festival. Anyone, anywhere, can set up their own film festival! Launching in November, the Future Shorts Festival will become the first ever global pop-up festival, showcasing the most exciting short films from around the world. Anyone, anywhere can set up a screening [...]
THE IDES OF MARCH E1 RELEASED 28 October 2011 Let’s be honest, George Clooney playing a presidential candidate is dream casting. Women swoon when he’s onscreen, while men are equally swayed by his relaxed, smooth-talking vibe. I wouldn’t be surprised if President Obama takes notes on Clooney’s effortless way with the press. He packs the [...]
THE SILENCE (DAS LETZTE SCHWEIGEN) SODA PICTURES RELEASED 28 October 2011 In a small German town in the summer of 1986, two two men in a red car follow 13-year-old Pia as she cycles through a wheat field. Peer Sommer (Ulrich Thomsen) rapes and kills Pia, while his friend Timo Friedrich (Wotan Wilke Mohring) uncomfortably [...]
WIN Silent Running on Blu-ray Three years after helping to achieve some of the most amazing imagery in cinema history with 2001: A Space Odyssey, special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull made an auspicious directorial debut at age 29 with the environmentally themed science fiction classic Silent Running. In the distant future, plant life on our [...]
There’s a nice ‘Tintin’ interview up at The Hollywood Reporter, and this video clip features Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson in conversation. Two of the world’s most powerful directors (and the third, Jim Cameron, gets a mention) collaborating on a film is quite something. Here’s an excerpt: While Jackson was an expert on motion capture [...]
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN PARAMOUNT RELEASED 26 October 2011 In the early Eighties, Steven Spielberg and ‘Tintin’ creator Georges Remi (better known as ‘Hergé’) had a mutual love-in over each others’ (in Spielberg’s case, intrepid adventurer ‘Indiana Jones’) work. Hergé wanted Spielberg to be the person to bring his creation [...]