For some reason, there are currently three films about cyclist Lance Armstrong being developed. With so many movies planned about the same subject, details can get jumbled.
Anchor Bay, rental and retail Produced largely by the same team as the delightful Little Miss Sunshine, this is never as successful or as funny as that surprise hit, but does have the performances of Amy Adams and Emily Blunt to commend it. Not only are these strong and empathetic, but they are playing very much against type: the usually imperious Blunt is the family screw-up, while Adams, sunny …
Senior Sky Movies executive’s comments follow Ofcom’s warning not to overestimate VOD operators’ importance The UK pay-TV market for films has changed dramatically since Ofcom began its inquiry into BSkyB’s dominance of the sector in 2010, a senior Sky Movies executive has said. Simon Rexworthy, the Sky Movies controller of acquisitions and on demand, co-hosting a London event to publicise …
HMV says sales of Clarkson’s Powered Up have soared after he said public sector strikers should be shot Take one high-profile TV presenter, a new DVD released in time for Christmas and some opportune outrageous remarks that kicked up the BBC’s biggest stink since “Sachsgate” . Result: bumper sales for Jeremy Clarkson’s Powered Up DVD following his controversial appearance on BBC1’s The One Show …
Articifial Eye, retail, cert U More of a starter than a main course, Mid-August Lunch has the following plot: a middle-aged Italian caring for his mother, has three other elderly women to look after for a couple of days.
Horror movies divide into several very different categories: slasher, zombie, vampire, mainstream horror, Asian horror and revolting Eli Roth films. Devotees of one category often have no interest in the others, a fact that is incomprehensible to snooty types who cavalierly make no distinctions. All of these subgenres rely on worthy, battle-tested cliches that appear again and again
In horror films, old dark houses have their place, but as hell is other people apartments are far spookier In Dream Home, the owners of the flat on which Josie Ho is about to exchange contracts suddenly jack the price up beyond her reach, so she goes on a killing spree in the apartment block. Who can blame her
If I can sit through the Saw movies or The Human Centipede without my pulse missing a beat, it just means the tipping points have shifted Back in 1976, when Taxi Driver first opened, I trotted off to see it with no idea what I was in for. Imagine that.
Broadcaster Sky could be forced to change the way it deals with rivals and US studios after regulator’s preliminary finding The Competition Commission has said BSkyB is making “excess profits” on its movie channels, increasing the likelihood that the company could be forced to change the way it does business with Hollywood studios and rival broadcasters.
The case: courtroom movies are a crime against cinema. The accused?