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Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival

Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival

4 Oct 2007

The film arm of this excellent multi-media exploration of mental health issues, led by Glasgow Anti-Stigma Partnership, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, the Mental Health Foundation and the ‘See Me’ campaign includes free (ticketed) screenings of Ken…

Pilton Video

Pilton Video

4 Oct 2007

Celebrating 25 years of service in the community this month Pilton Video present new shorts from their high definition filmmaking scheme, Streetwise. This selection features Brydon Graham’s vigilante flick Running, Graham Drysdale’s Stuck (pictured), a…

Sugar and Spice Sunday

Sugar and Spice Sunday

4 Oct 2007

The 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the UK will be celebrated with this free (ticketed) all day event which includes African drumming classes, cookery classes, musical interludes, talks and martial arts workshops. Film highlights…

Paris Hilton to captivate nation in Repo Opera

27 Sep 2007

Somewhere in the darkest corners of Burbank there’s a big tombola filled to the very brim with little pieces of paper on which are written a series of names, concepts and titles. Now Darren Lynn Bousman, he directed the Saw sequels you know, has…

All aboard the good ship Emmerich for a Fantastic Voyage

27 Sep 2007

What we really need in this age of terrorism, blue tongues and crunchy credit is a remake of 70’s camp-a-thon Fantastic Voyage. Thank the lord then that Roland Emmerich has stepped up to the plate to bring us just such a wonder. The Independence…

The Punisher, third verse same as the first?

27 Sep 2007

After Dolph Lundgren and Thomas Jane singularly failed to bring the charisma of the Punisher to the screen, Hollywood has decided to have another shot. The Lundgren version was just ridiculous and the Jane incarnation was so unremittingly vicious…

State of Play ups the ante, bitter misanthrope unimpressed

27 Sep 2007

Much as it may be in my nature to hate everything, the increasing buzz about the movie adaptation of State of Play is really starting to distress me. The original TV series was a work of coruscating genius, the Hollywood version appears to be trying…

Law of diminishing returns to be highlighted by Transformers 2

27 Sep 2007

We’ve all mused on the intricacies of Dogme and poured forth interminable mince about how the Seventh Seal is like totally our favourite film ever. But we’re also all far too aware that we bleeding well LOVED Transformers and left the cinema silently…

Shazam, p’tang, yang, kipperbang and also the Rock

27 Sep 2007

There is no reason for that headline other than the fact I have always wanted to reference that particular film and the Rock is going to be in the adaptation of Shazam!. But the twist, the delicious twist, is that he’s going to allow the fans to…

X-Files 2 to baffle the world

27 Sep 2007

The X-Files went through a curious process of being compelling then enjoyable and then something you occasionally noticed until it ended up being all but incomprehensible. So you’ll excuse my intransigence if I don’t lose control at the news we’re to…

Narnia and Wolfman in tardiness shame

20 Sep 2007

Not only is the ‘actors’ strike’ going to inflict a new Friday 13th on us, but it’s also gone and knackered two films that might be alright. The third of the Narnia films and Benicio Del Toro’s Wolfman have been pushed back by the growing fear that…

Harry Potter and the endless casting of British screen legends

20 Sep 2007

The Harry Potter big tent of British character actors we all know and love has increased its capacity to the tune of one. Which is an appallingly self-indulgent way of saying that Jim Broadbent has been cast in the next Harry Potter movie, which by…

Friday the 13th Pt 1297

20 Sep 2007

The word on the Hollywood street is that next summer is going to see something of an industry strike – you know the ones where nobody makes movies in case the rest of the preening egotists get annoyed with them. One of the consequences of this little…

Mummy 3 online, a nation celebrates

20 Sep 2007

After the stunning double miss of the Mummy Returns and the horrible, HORRIBLE Scorpion King, you’d be forgiven for greeting the upcoming Mummy 3 like a llama hair in a cream horn. However, the briefest of ganders at the new online featurettes (sigh…

Star Trek secures an Uhura

20 Sep 2007

The geek on the street will be turning weak cordial cartwheels at the news that JJ Abrams’ Star Trek movie is continuing apace with its casting decisions. The latest to sign up for the sort of revisionist/prequel/depressing remake is Zoe Saldana…

Steady on, it’ll be Thor in the morning

20 Sep 2007

You, me, Rivaldo; we all love a good comic book adaptation. And Marvel are refusing to disappoint us by confirming that Matthew Vaughn will be directing a Thor movie. Apparently they see it as ‘like Gladiator with Norse mythology’, which is like…

Garner grabs Ghosts gig gingerly, gets greenlight, giggles gaily

20 Sep 2007

Alliterative madness will make you tell lies, however, the first part of the above farrago is indeed true. Jennifer Garner will be teaming up with Matthew McConaughey for New Line’s latest rom com effort Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. The story…

Hollywood in ‘possibly ruining sacred cow’ shock

13 Sep 2007

Now, we can all agree that the BBC drama State of Play was a work of unfettered genius. Which is why the news that Edward Norton and Brad Pitt have been slated to appear in a big screen adaptation is something of a double-edged sword – it could be…

Go-kart Race 2000?

13 Sep 2007

The planned ‘re-imagining’ of the Roger Corman cult classic Death Race 2000 has taken something of an odd direction. Rather than a brutal cross-USA road race where your Sylvester Stallones and your David Carradines gain points for mowing down…

I am Iron Man

13 Sep 2007

It’s probably not within the remit of this lecture to get excited about a new teaser trailer, but to hell with all the ‘rules’ and what society ‘expects’. Right kids? Anyway, the latest internet leakery causing excitement on the intergeek highway…

Indiana Jones and the appalling name for a sequel

13 Sep 2007

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark: dramatic. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: eerie. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: heroic. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: own-brand biscuits and lottery scratchcards. The…

Gondola for Mr Lee

13 Sep 2007

Drama at the Venice Film Festival where Ang Lee took the Golden Lion for best film with his erotic spy drama Lust, Caution. It wasn’t a hugely popular choice with some of the jury, with claims of ‘fighting like cats and dogs’ in the jury…

Sex and the City and the spent force

13 Sep 2007

The entirely unnecessary cinema adaptation of Sex and the City has taken a step closer to becoming a reality after Jennifer Hudson was signed on to appear. She’ll apparently play Sarah Jessica Parker’s assistant in the movie which is set four years…

Producers erupt as Polanski walks from Pompeii

13 Sep 2007

Roman Polanski has walked away from the $100 million adaptation of Robert Harris’ Pompeii. The Polish director apparently asked for his ‘liberty’ from the project which had already been sold to distributors around the globe and producer Robert…

Poorly kept secret confirmed

13 Sep 2007

The 80th Oscar ceremony is set to be hosted by the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, confirming possibly the worst kept secret since the ending of the Sixth Sense. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have rehired the satirist after the…

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