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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Nine hours on a plane leaves you with few options…you can work (on a Saturday night - yeah), you can sleep (even in Premium Economy I can’t sleep sitting upright) or you can avail yourself of the in-flight entertainment system - which was my choice yesterday as I took BA053 from London to Seattle.
I watched [...]

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Guess where I am working today:
There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren’t worth what a pin can spit and it goes [...]

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Gore blimey, etc - there are a million puns that could be made about Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I’d waited long enough to see it, and I wasn’t disappointed when I finally did.
Adapted from the Steven Sondheim stage score, and directed by the perfectly suited Tim Burton - this ‘musical-macabre’ [...]

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There Will Be Blood is the real deal, a bona fide genuine classic of a movie. A complete epic that will win Oscars and all sorts of other awards, and end up in top-tens, best-ofs and end of year lists.
Daniel Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview, an oil prospecting roughneck in California in the late 1800’s - [...]

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They often say that good stories make good films - admittedly that’s a truism, but in this case it really works. Flawless has two of my favourite actors in it, Michael Caine and Joss Ackland - alongside Demi Moore in a beautifully shot heist film set in the 1960’s.
Don’t expect the glamour and fast [...]

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I noticed whilst reading the Golden Globe awards news and now the BAFTA nominations that there was a few films I hadn’t seen on the list - specifically Juno pops up a couple of times (best Musical or Comedy and best Screenplay), so I thought I should check it out and see what the scoop [...]

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I understand from what I have read that Tom Hanks has a reputation for being a stickler to detail, and he’s a bit of a control freak. In which case, I wonder who does his quality control for films, he has made very few duds in his career - Da Vinci Code anyone?
 
 
However, he has [...]

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Or maybe its my age, but Helena Bonham-Carter is looking more and more attractive as the years go by (click the picture for a full size version). Taken from yesterdays Observer magazine.
However, I’m not just posting pictures of pretty ladies for the sake of it! Ms Bonham-Carter is in the new Tim Burton movie, Sweeney [...]

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