I finally took my chance to go and see The Dark Knight yesterday, and despite all my anticipation, I wasn’t disappointed. Neither is everyone else – it is getting great reviews and has shot to the top of the IMDB 250.
Sure, Christian Bale is brilliant, bringing the darkness of Batman to the screen once [...]

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I’m all booked up for Friday evening– babysitter booked, god is in his heaven!

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One of my favourite books of recent years has made it to the big screen – with the impending release of Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.

The (NSFW) trailer is good enough to keep me going, but I can’t wait to see this.

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Whilst I was looking at information about the new James Bond film, I noticed that Daniel Craig is due to play the devil (alongside Ewan McGregor as the main character – Declan Gunn)  in a movie based on one of my favourite books of recent years.
I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan tells the story of [...]

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MSN Soapbox has the exclusive trailer for the new 007 movie Quantum of Solace. The release date is listed as October 31st, so I’d imagine there will be a bunch more clips and trailers released.
In this one, there seems to be some of the ‘darkness’ that came along with Casino Royale – but of course [...]

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Another fantastic trailer for the new Batman film – July 25th release in the UK – this is going to be a great film. I sense a posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger…you read it here first.

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Interesting article in the Guardian by Mark Lawson this morning about publicists trying to release movies, books and TV shows without critics even seeing them – to save potential bad reviews.
It seems that increasingly the press are only getting to see movies at the very first public screenings (Friday afternoon on the day of release), [...]

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A new trailer for what is certain to be the best action movie of the year, The Dark Knight - staring Christian Bale as Batman, and what looks to be a wonderful turn from the late Heath Ledger as the Joker.
Looks awesome - I cannot wait.

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Daniel Day-Lewis has immortalized that line in one of the most memorable scenes from ‘There Will be Blood’, but it turns out that way before becoming an internet meme (what’s a meme? - click here) it was actually a line used in real life.
Over on ‘Observations of Film Art’, director Paul Thomas-Anderson lets on [...]

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In the second installment of my BA053 movie festival, I watched George Clooney doing his thing in Michael Clayton. I can see why women like Mr Clooney - he’s easy on the eye, has a nice smile, a cool voice and he wears lovely clothes, so it’s no wonder he is one of the most [...]

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