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November 8, 2011

Creature Feature

There's a new book out called Monsters in the Movies by the director .



It's a pictorial history of cinematic terrors of the last 100 years and got me thinking about which one I find the most frightening and why...



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Published on November 08, 2011 13:30

November 4, 2011

The Artist

There's a brand new silent movie coming out later this year called The Artist - it's a melodrama and won a prize at Cannes. Here is my review in tribute to the golden age before the talkies.



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Published on November 04, 2011 15:30

November 1, 2011

Silent Running

Silent Running, one of my all time favourite movies and one of the greatest sci fi films ever, is about to be released on BluRay disc. It was made by Douglas Trumbull as a reaction to Kubrick's much more celebrated 2001 and for my money it's the superior film.



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Published on November 01, 2011 12:15

October 28, 2011

Positive Expression

A couple of weeks back I asked you for suggestions of things you should do rather than don't do when going to the cinema - to go into a secondary Code of Conduct. You came back with loads of good ideas - here I pick out some of my favourites.



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Published on October 28, 2011 14:26

October 25, 2011

Crowning Cronenberg

Veteran horror director David Cronenberg is about to be awarded a Fellowship by the BFI at this year's London Film Festival. I gave him a Kermode Fellowship a few years back and in my opinion he has given us some of the most extraordinary, disturbing and thought provoking films in all of cinema.



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Published on October 25, 2011 14:31

October 21, 2011

Scary Kids

I've been thinking a lot about Lynne Ramsay's new film We Need To Talk About Kevin and how it fits into a sub-genre that really interests me - movies that explore a strange fear of children and young people.
Just why is it that we seem to be afraid of our own kids?



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Published on October 21, 2011 16:17

October 19, 2011

Source Of Contagion

Director Steven Soderbergh has got a new film out this week - a 'real life' thriller about a pandemic that sweeps through the population and the resulting panic. But this film and others like it owe a big debt to the horror genre and such gems as George Romero's The Crazies.



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Published on October 19, 2011 09:30

October 14, 2011

Accentuate The Positive

Several people have suggested to me that the Cinema Code of Conduct is a bit negative and that what we need now is a complementary guide about what you can do to really enhance the film going experience. I'm looking for your input - together we can make a difference...



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Published on October 14, 2011 10:00

October 11, 2011

The Greatest Movie Never Made

's new film We Need To Talk About Kevin is released next week. It's a terrific adaptation of a difficult book and only her third feature to date. This is because after her first two films she spent years unsuccessfully trying to make The Lovely Bones. This got me thinking about all the other cherished but never realised projects and wondering what's the greatest movie never made?



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Published on October 11, 2011 14:30

October 7, 2011

Triers Of A Clown

has issued a statement saying that he will never speak in public again after it was revealed that he may face prosecution for the comments he made at a press conference in Cannes this year. Is his threat real and should he really be prosecuted for what he said?



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Published on October 07, 2011 13:06

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