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Tilda Swinton

Tildafest!

17 Jul 2008

Hollywood actress Tilda Swinton is to set up a small film festival in her hometown of Nairn in north-east Scotland. Bereft of the usual razzmatazz, Swinton and co-organiser Mark Cousins are keen to strip back the look [and cost] of festivals, such as…

The X-Files

The new X-Files film

17 Jul 2008

The new X-Files film continued to be shrouded in mystery last week, with all the actors publically refusing to reveal the plot. Billy Connolly will star as Father Joe alongside David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson’s Mulder and Scully, in the…

Angels & Demons hit by Hollywood strike

2 Nov 2007

The sequel to The Da Vinci Code is among projects expected to be hit by a writer strike in Hollywood. The screenwriter was frantically trying to finish the script for Angels & Demons to avoid crossing a potential picket line - which is likely to…

Daniel Craig signs up for four more Bond adventures

2 Nov 2007

Critics who poured scorn on the idea that Daniel Craig could enjoy the odd vodka martini as a tuxedo-clad 007 should look away now – as the British actor has signed up for four more films. Craig, who was well received as a dark and brooding James…

Worldwide Pants behind teens on election trail

2 Nov 2007

David Letterman’s production company Worldwide Pants is planning a feature documentary about five 18-20 year-olds running for public office. The as-yet untitled project will follow the young hopefuls as they hit the campaign trail in the likes of New…

Ang Lee looks to follow Golden Lion with Golden Horse

2 Nov 2007

Ang Lee has received 11 nominations for the Chinese language Golden Horse Awards for his film Lust, Caution. Set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II, the film tells the story of a Chinese woman involved in a plot to seduce and kill an…

Ving Rhames to pack a punch in Liston biopic

2 Nov 2007

Ving Rhames is to take on the role of 1960s heavyweight champ Sonny Liston, in the biopic Phantom Punch. Directed by Robert Townsend, the film will follow the infamous fighter from his bouts in the ring to mob ties. ‘The thing is that certain…

Jason Statham confirmed for Crank 2

2 Nov 2007

Jason Statham is to return as monosyllabic tough guy Chev Chelios for the sequel to 2006 thriller Crank. The second installment doesn’t seem to stray far from the original, which saw professional assassin Chelios injected with a Chinese toxin…

Spider-Man 4 nets Zodiac writer James Vanderbilt

2 Nov 2007

The writer behind thriller Zodiac, James Vanderbilt, has been snapped up to write Spider-Man 4. Known for taking a character-driven approach to writing rather than overindulging on special effects, Vanderbilt’s appointment is an indication that…

Long Good Friday, hideous remake disaster

11 Oct 2007

Here’s a smashing idea, let’s remake the Long Good Friday and at the same time let’s stamp on the face of the British film industry and laugh ourselves silly to its faint gurglings for mercy. So it’s good news all round that Paul WS Anderson has…

Bit early in the Star Trek universe for kung fu isn’t it?

11 Oct 2007

Unless you’ve seen Chopper, that headline will mean nothing. If you have seen Chopper, it’ll remind you of the finest single line in film history. All that wittering will eventually lead us to a point where I can reveal that Eric Bana has signed on…

Pablo Escobar, he’s so very now

11 Oct 2007

If you’re going to make a film about a Colombian drug lord you can reasonably expect to have a decent run at it without somebody turning up to queer the pitch. So Joe Carnahan must have thought when he signed on to direct Javier Bardem in Killing…

The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, may get made at some point

11 Oct 2007

I don’t like Terry Gilliam’s films, there I’ve said it – they’re self-indulgent, really not very funny and they make me want to cry. And Brazil’s rubbish. So you can imagine the joy at the news his new film The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus has…

Golden Compass points the way

11 Oct 2007

We’ve all been fooled by trailers before, I point you in the direction of both Godzilla and Spawn for mind-tearing evidence of this. Both had hugely exciting trailers, both were the filmic equivalent of having a kidney removed by a crack-smoking…

Terminator: I’ll be back, then again and once again

11 Oct 2007

I’ve never really seen the attraction of the Terminator - it’s alright but it’s no Turner and Hooch - so you’ll forgive me for not getting too excited at the news we are to be treated to a further trilogy of the franchise. First out of the blocks…

Kidman to go bust in Monte Carlo

11 Oct 2007

What we need now is Nicole Kidman in a high-concept comedy, possibly alongside Julia Roberts and set in a glamorous location. Hurrah then for Monte Carlo and director Tom Bezucha who will bring us the desperately in need of a hit duo as two…

Rome star dons hat of justice for Solomon Kane

4 Oct 2007

Heavily-oiled Rome star James Purefoy is to star in a trilogy of movies adapted from the Solomon Kane stories. You really can’t have enough films about 16th century soldiers who struggle to fight the good fight after discovering their actions have…

Stopping Power proves worryingly apposite

4 Oct 2007

There was some excitement at the announcement deadpan quirk-o-phile John Cusack was going to be starring in a new Jan De Bont action movie going by the name of Stopping Power. Sadly that excitement must now be replaced in its box and nonchalantly…

Document 5

Document 5

4 Oct 2007

The International Human Rights Film Festival is now, amazingly, in its fifth year. This year’s programme looks set to keep up the very high standards of previous outings. Opening film The Mother’s House details, in sometimes raw and over powering detail…

Eddie Murphy jumps the shark for Starship Dave

4 Oct 2007

Sometimes I like to play a little game, the rules are fairly simply, you just close your eyes, take a deep breath and try to remember when Eddie Murphy last made a good film. So far my record is 14 hours and 32 minutes when I briefly recalled…

Remake bandwagon rumbles hideously onwards, crushes The Brood

4 Oct 2007

The latest horror movie to capture Hollywood’s increasingly unimaginative eye would appear to be David Cronenberg’s The Brood. Not content with destroying Hallowe’en and thrusting a utterly pointless Friday the 13th rehash into our slack jawed faces…

Queen 2: This time it’s most axiomatic and divinedly inspired

4 Oct 2007

Screenwriter Peter Morgan is apparently beavering away on a follow up to The Queen – but it’s not really focusing on her majesty this time. Rather we are to be treated to Michael Sheen’s third turn as Tony Blair as we follow his dealings with Bill…

Wolverine rewrite not before time

4 Oct 2007

It’s an odd one the Wolverine spin-off movie, you can see where there’s a market for it, but the proposed storyline is baffling. The word on the seedy old internet highways is that we are to be treated to the origins of the adamantium-clawed…

Karate you have to be Kidding

4 Oct 2007

I know I go on about remakes and reimaginings with almost stultifying regularity, but sometimes you are simply left mouth agape and right knee shaking by the audacity, the raw-boned impertinence, of Hollywood. So, anyway, they’re remaking Karate Kid…

Lorca

Lorca

4 Oct 2007

The life and work of Spanish poet, painter, pianist, composer and revolutionary Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898–19 August 1936) is celebrated in this evening of film and music. A screening of Humberto López y Guerra’s hour-long 1976 documentary…

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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