I love movie posters, and I especially love movie posters that I have already seen in London, translated into someone else's language, for somewhere else. So, I love this: These are all over Paris just now, as are huge pictures of Kate Beckinsale (star of Underworld â Nouvelle Ere) and a smaller one of Gary Oldman in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, known here as La Taupe (the mole). J...
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A film including active-duty SEALs who risk their lives protecting ours! H/T Theo Spark “Like” TPC on Facebook here Follow TPC on Twitter here.
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PoliticsandFinance on 3rd Feb 2012 (via politicsandfinance.blogspot.com)
Jeremy Irons has spoken about how his views on the nature of capitalism have developed in the course of filming his new movie Margin Call.
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BBCPolitics on 22nd Jan 2012 (via bbc.co.uk)
Michel Hazanavicius’ black-and-white movie manages to be both a homage to Hollywood’s past and wittily original.
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Spiked on 13th Jan 2012 (via spiked-online.com)
I listen a lot to Radio 3, the classical music channel, especially first thing in the morning. This inevitably involves listening to BBC news bulletins, which can be quite an ordeal. This morning, as my brain surfaced into consciousness, I heard a strange item, about how the government intends to switch the subsidies it gives to the British movie industry towards more popular movies, presumably aw...
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Samizdata on 11th Jan 2012 (via samizdata.net)
Watching the movie reminds us that leaders are thin on the ground, says Allison Pearson.
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Telegraph on 11th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
There is nothing in this film for the Left. Where they demonized Margaret Thatcher, the movie humanizes her. It is not about the great events of her political life; these are its backdrop. Her entry into Parliament, her leadership bid, the miners' strike, the IRA and the Falklands War all feature, but the movie is not about them. Rather is i...
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Samizdata on 10th Jan 2012 (via samizdata.net)
As Radio 4's Evan Davis suggested David Cameron should be played by Flashman star Malcolm McDowell, quick-witted Twitter users have created the hashtag #cameronmovienames. Here's the best of the Prime Minister's potential films.
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Telegraph on 6th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
This story is more than a week old, but the case of how a line from the movie "Serenity", based on the moronically discontinued TV series Firefly, was used in a free speech crackdown is still worth a mention. Here is a video with Neil Gaiman, the SF writer, about the controversy. (H/T, Huffington Post). More commentary from FIRE, the group supporting individual rights in the US education system. M...
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Samizdata on 4th Jan 2012 (via samizdata.net)
Iris Dement appeared on the sound track of the 2010 movie True Grit, but here she is from 1995
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