The movies nominated for Academy Awards this year look super interesting, so I decided to go and see The Imitation Game (not to mention the fact that I'm a huge Cumberbatch fan). The movie is about the life of Alan Turing, a mathematician who, along with a team of cryptographers, helped crack the enigma code during World War II.
I didn't know much about Turin going into the movie which isn't surprising since the work he did for the government was kept a secret for over 50 years. However, the cracking of this code was instrumental in the quickening the victory for the allies in World War II.
I highly recommend the movie to anyone and everyone. It's brilliantly made, the acting is incredible (Cumberbatch never disappoints) and the story is exceedingly interesting. I came home and bought the book to read up more on it. If you're not into movies or history, at least go see it for all the beautiful British and Irish men. Hello Benny, Matthew Goode and Allan Leech!


World Cancer Day is organized by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and celebrated internationally on the 4th of February each year to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. This year Cancervive and The Movers and Shakers Group is hosting a screening of the touching romantic drama, “Ordinary Love”, starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville. The film portrays the ways a cancer diagnosis can put strain on a relationship.
About Ordinary Love
Joan and Tom have been married for many years. There is an ease to their relationship which only comes from spending a lifetime together and a depth of love which expresses itself through tenderness and humour in equal part. When Joan is diagnosed with breast cancer, the course of her treatment shines a light on their relationship as they are faced with the challenges that lie ahead and the prospect of what might become of them if something were to happen to her. ORDINARY LOVE is a story about love, survival and the epic questions life throws at each and every one of us. Starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville.
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“Call Me Maybe” is a music video featuring Carly Rae Jepsen. It was uploaded on Jepsen's YouTube channel on March 1, 2012.
A music video for “Call Me Maybe” was written and directed by Ben Knechtel. According to Knechtel, the main idea behind the concept was to have a "twist at the end", trying to get away from the idea of the classic "boy meets girl" story. The music video has over 176 million views on VEVO and YouTube as of July 30, 2012. It begins with Jepsen spying on her attractive tattooed neighbor, portrayed by Holden Nowell, as he is working on his lawn. As he takes his shirt off and notices she is staring at him, Jepsen quickly hides below her window. She is reading the books Love at First Sight (Men In Uniform) by B.J. Daniels and Skylar's Outlaw by Linda Warren. The scene then cuts to her garage, where she is rehearsing the track with her band. Following the rehearsals, her bandmates push her to go and wash her car, where she tries to gain her neighbor's attention with various poses only to fall from the hood of the car. The neighbor then helps Jepsen to get up, and watches the band rehearse the track again. After turning and writing down her telephone number, Jepsen sees her neighbor pass one of her male bandmates his own number, indicating he is attracted to the man instead. The video received three nominations on the 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards in the categories of UR Fave Video, Pop Video of the Year, and Video of the Year.


The Snow Witch Transmedia Story
Taking as our inspiration the characters and story world in the The Snow Witch, a novel by Portsmouth author Matt Wingett, we set out to tell a new, expanded story. We came up with a new tale and we called it the Cursed City – Dark Tide.
Cursed City – Dark Tide
A restless spirit of a murdered women hunts for victims in a quiet seaside town.
Janey’s spirit is vengeful, angry and spiteful. Having died traumatically, she cannot leave this place and seeks to wreak her vengeance on the town and its population. She is become Onryō, the most dreaded of spirits whose vengeance is indiscriminate, making no distinction as to whom it targets. Donitza holds the key to this tragic story having discovered the truth behind Janey’s disappearance through her own encounters with the denizens of this seaside town. A traveller and a witch from eastern Europe she is fleeing her own traumas. She can weave a spell to release the Onryō but will need the component parts to make her magical potions, and to sing her incantations. Led on by the mysterious street artist #Lissitch, can you, the audience solve the riddle and provide Donitza with the materials she needs to release the Onryō?
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Oliver Platt, known to "West Wing" fans as Counselor Oliver Babish, will be starring in "Shining City" starting in spring 2006. From Playbill.com:
"Originally produced at London’s Royal Court Theater, Conor McPherson's Shining City "focuses on John (Oliver Platt), a guilt-ridden man who visits a therapist after seeing the ghost of his recently deceased wife. What starts out as an everyday exchange becomes a gripping struggle to survive — a struggle that will change both men for the rest of their lives."
McPherson had a Broadway and London sensation with his The Weir.
Tony Award winner Robert Falls (Long Day's Journey Into Night) will direct the Broadway staging at the Biltmore Theatre. Previews begin April 13, 2006, toward a May 3 opening."


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EastEnders star in Dunfermline musical
Gary Fitzpatrick • Published 22 May 2012 09:30
'EASTENDERS' and 'Hollyoaks' actor Stefan Booth has been confirmed in the cast of the hit musical 'Chicago' when it comes to Dunfermline later this year.
He will take the role of Billy Flynn alongside Ali Bastian who stars as Roxie Hart.
Stefan played Greg Jessop in the Albert Square soap.
He is also well-known for playing the regular roles of Sergeant Marc Rollins in 'The Bill' and Jamie Nash in 'Hollyoaks'.
Other TV credits include 'William & Mary', 'Doctors and The Silence', as well as reaching the finals of the first series of ITV's 'Dancing On Ice'.
'Chicago' comes to the Alhambra Theatre from 10th until 15th December.
This article appeared in Dunfermline Press 22 May 12


I love Fort Kinnaird for a day of shopping in Edinburgh. There's so many shops and free parking it's one of the best options. There's so many restaurants and coffee shops too, for when you need a pick me up. One of the latest editions is an Odeon cinema and I didn't quite realise how good it was until we were in Edinburgh last week. Picture the scene, sore feet after a full day walking the previous day and a visit to the trampoline park, we were all shopped out and the rain was about to pour down. We could have jumped back in the car and headed home (well our hotel for the week) but it was far too early for our day to finish.
The Odeon cinema is in prime location, right between the restaurants, making it perfect for a date night. There's 7 screens so loads of film options and if you're a bit early for a showing there's a costa inside, time for a hot chocolate! There's loads of choice when it comes to sweeties, juice, slushies and snacks. And best of all, the whole cinema is on one floor so it's fully accessible for everyone. There was lots of staff about and we didn't have to queue for long, even at a peak time.
The ticket prices at Odeon are really quite competitive, meaning your trip doesn't have to break the bank. An adult in standard seating is £9.75 whilst premier seating is £11.25. We've never sat in premier seating until now but for someone who's over 6ft it was fantastic (that's my boyfriend, not me obviously). Premier seats are that bit comfier, wider, more leg room and have the best positions in the screen. There's also a student deal which is fantastic value.; £10 for a ticket, popcorn and soft drink. Jealous I'm not a student anymore.
We both had regular popcorn and regular drinks and even without a dinner I felt a little bit greedy. The popcorn lasted me about 90% of the film, it was a really generous size. I had sweet popcorn and it was delicious. I was stuffed by the end of it. I was also a bit wary of drinking all of my diet coke, I didn't want to have to nip to the toilet it in middle of the film, thought the toilets were really central to the screens which is great. I went before and after the film so didn't miss a second, and there was lots of toilet cubicles which is great when it's busy and they were all really clean. My only problem was the pull doors at the screen... how do you open a door with both hands full of food and drink!?
So we went to see Deepwater Horizon* on my boyfriend's request. I'd seen it be mentioned on Facebook and Twitter but I didn't really know what it was about or what to expect. I had seen people say take tissues and boy were they right! What a gripping film. Based on a true story of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico it's perhaps a little predictable as you know how the real story turns out but the way the film was made had me sitting on the edge of my seat. There was a lot of oil industry terminology throughout that had me a little confused but the building tension and emotional elements, along with great acting had me forgetting about that quite quickly. Living in Scotland, a lot of my friends' partners work offshore. I couldn't let them watch this film because there's no way they'd let them go back off shore. Bringing this man-made disaster to our attention in a hard hitting way I would say this film definitely does it justice. 100 % recommend it. 4 and a half stars out of 5 maybe!?
Have you seen Deepwater Horizon? How often do you visit the cinema?


“Oh the year was 1776
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now…”
Wait a minute… The year is 2012, I’m not Stan Rogers, and this is not a folk blog. But you wouldn’t know it from my most recent absence. After a smattering of blogginess at the beginning of the year primarily concerning the event called Botcon, I disappeared again, the victim of work assignments, training and extracurricular activities of a non-toy variety. I extend (again) my apologies to you, regular and faithful readers.
But let’s put my absence aside. This is a a toy blog after all - open, dammit, open! - so let’s get back to it.
Recently, I had the opportunity to make another appearance on my friend Steve’s Roboplastic Podcastalypse to discuss Robotix, a construction toy of the mid-1980s that tried (and failed) to contort itself into the action figure toy premise so common at the time. For a bit of a nostalgia walk down Skaloor lane, and to hear Steve’s latest revelations of the fate of the proposed second year run on Roboforce, go get the postcast here.
In other news, as you may know from a more active twitter feed, I’ve recently joined The League of Extraordinary Bloggers. I mean, how could I refuse the call to arms of Brian at Cool and Collected to assemble a group of dedicated bloggers who would discuss, muse and debate a variety of topics on a regular basis. Like livejournal’s writers’ block, except way less lame.
Forced inspiration - just what an infrequent toy blogger needs! So here I am for the first installment.
What movie is, or was, your “go to” Saturday matinee — the comfort movie you always popped into the VCR on a rainy Saturday afternoon, the movie you watched over and over again, driving your parents crazy while you recited the lines along with the characters on the screen?
Of course, we’d have to start with a subject on which I do not have a ready response.
Strange as it may sound, I really don’t have a “comfort” movie. Sure, I have a list of favourite films, and films for multiple viewings, but there isn’t (or wasn’t) a film that I completely destroyed with multiple viewings. Honestly, there are so many new (or old) programs that I want to see (hello Doctor!), it almost feels reckless to spent time on multiple repeats. Currently, we going through Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode by episode, and hope to get to the second series of the new V and the (finally!) officially released Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future soon. I’d also like to go back and watch through the recent Battlestar: Galactica (at least until the middle of season four) and Buffy.
What I do throw in when I am at a loss are old episodes of Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge G1 fan and the dialogue and stories hit me in the old nostalgic part of my brain (in a way that most of GIJoe cannot). But Beast Wars and Beast Machines are both visually beautiful and tremendously well written that it’s hard not to be drawn back to them. Strangely the collected serialized Robotics that I have for my Region 2 player can also get thrown into the mix. But even if it is marketed as a movie, it really isn’t quite as advertised.
I doubt that on my list of favourite movies, I’ve sat through any of them more than a dozen times. Strangely, the single film I went to see on more than two occasions was Michael Bay’s 2007 Transformers. I say strangely because, as regular readers of this blog know, I was (putting it mildly) not enamored with its sequels, Revenge of the Suck or Suck of the Moon. And despite these viewing, Transformers does not have a place on my 10 ten list.
But back in 2007, when I first saw the film in Providence, Rhode Island with 500+ Transformers fan, I completely fell in love with it. It was to me what Transformers fans claim its two sequels were - a beloved popcorn film. It really was a classic example of a film that divided its three acts into very distinct styles:
- Suspense / horror - the weird artifacts, the building mystery of strange vehicles and machines and the initial confrontations with the Decepticons, there was a sense that Bay was actually capturing how the world would interpret giant changing robots from another world - with fear and apprehension.
- Comedy - almost from the moment that Optimus Prime begins introducing his teammates, right up until the unfreezing of MBE 1, the whole film plays almost like a juvenile comedy. Sex jokes, fire hydrants, oblivious parents, urine - it’s like these thousands of year old machines arrived to turn the planet into animal house. And the film would have been damaged had things not changed gears again.
- Action / adventure - once Megatron is loose, we get back to a semblance of a movie. These autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron were not wisecracking friends, they were galactic gladiators whose arrival heralded a terrible threat to all existence and our chance for survival.
Five years ago, how could anyone know that this film would be followed by two sequels, each of which would be the second highest grossing films for their year of release? Or that Bay would take the “comedy” style from the second act of the first film, already sprinkled lightly throughout the other parts of the film, and decide that gay jokes and dog humping should trump subtlety every time? Or that the subsequent films would muddle the identities of both Prime and Megatron to the point that they were no longer recognizable - the hero a cold blooded killer, the villain a pathetic second banana. Or that he would take the somewhat problematic but completely understandable premise of the first film - Optimus Prime and Megatron were shared guardians of their home world until a quest for power led Megatron and his followers to try and seize the soul of their world - and then add contradiction after contradiction into Revenge of the Fallen (the arrival on earth of the Prime and their betrayal by the Fallen millions of years after the war for Cybertron had begun and the Prime were already extinct) and Dark of the Moon (the crash on the moon in the early 1960s of Sentinel Prime in league with a Megatron who had disappeared from Cybertron millions of years before in a vain attempt to retrieve the All-Spark from space). Or that despair and disgust at the last two films would lead me to question what I liked so much about the first one (to say nothing of leading to very very long sentences like the previous one?) At the time, given modest expectations and hopes, Transformers was a somewhat imperfect film that hit enough touchpoints to be worth eight separate viewings in the theatre. Eight.
I saw the second and third film a total of once each. Just enough to know how wrong things went.
So that’s my entry on the topic of “comfort” movies. Not exactly on topic. But an interesting chance to talk a bit about the first film for a change. And of course bash the sequels.
And, in case you are interested, this is my list of favourite films:
- Fight Club
- Shawn of the Dead
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Superman Returns
- 28 Days Later
- Usual Suspects
- Shawshank Redemption
- High Fidelity
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Run Lola Run
A sampling of what other members of the league had to say:
- Geek Show Ink on Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Shiftin’ on the tremendous Superman II
- General Joes talk about the live action Spider-Man show of the 1970s. Yes, it’s real!
- Geekchunks remember the first film for which I ever won a free pass, Weird Science!
- aieouwhy talks about one of the only great wars, the Star Wars trilogy
- doubledumbassonyou thinks the best lazy day film is in fact Transformers (the animated movie of course!)


Spike Lee has a handful of movies I like, but he usually disappoints me. He’s just not a very good storyteller.
This movie started with two things that didn’t work. Alec Baldwin playing a racist, 1950s academic, doing a PSA style video where he keeps flubbing his lines. He’s just got so much baggage (especially playing Trump on SNL), that it didn’t work. Then, right after this, these cartoonish letters pop on screen telling us something like “This story is fo’ real. This is fo’ real sh*t !”
The audience chuckled, and there are other times Lee goes for comedy, and it didn’t work with such dark and disturbing subject matter. The bigger problem I had with Lee telling us this is “fo’ real” is that it’s not. Sure, the incredible story of police detective Ron Stallworth is rooted in truth. He worked in Colorado, infiltrated the KKK, and with the help of a partner, got some info about these scumbags. Yet Lee and the four other screenwriters added a love interest named Patrice. She ended up being discovered by a KKK member, and a bomb is planted at her house and explodes, injuring her. Later, a cross will be burned on the field near her house. None of that happened.
There’s a racist cop that’s horrible to Stallworth. He’s so unrealistic, it makes you think of the fictional cop character created in Detroit (also based on a true story). That character pulls over Patrice, and threatens her in many ways. Didn’t happen. It was like Lee was trying to recreate a scene from the film Crash. In fact, I read an interview with Stallworth in Time magazine, and basically, most of this didn’t happen. I guess Lee didn’t think you’d have much of a story if it’s the fact that Stallworth and his partner get into the KKK, and nothing much really happens. Which is the true story. So instead, Lee can lecture us on why racism is bad, and how most cops hate African-Americans and treat them poorly. Heck, even the last 10 minutes, Lee devotes to video of Trump and beatings and violence at recent protests. It’s as if he forgot all about the Stallworth story he was telling, so again, we can be lectured. The credits come up as we see an upside down American flag. Seriously, how ridiculous is all this? It’s amazing that most critics are buying into this garbage and praising Lee.
I wouldn’t mind if Lee wanted to create a love interest and other things to fill out the story a bit more. Yet even the moments he does that are done poorly. For example, one of the KKK members (the same actor that played the big doofus in I, Tonya), talks as if he has an IQ of 75. Now, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the average IQ of a KKK member, but they’re shown here in ways that just make me wonder if this is how these people even behaved. Not their racist rants over a game of pool, or playing poker. But they’d watch Birth of a Nation and cheer and shout, as if they were Mystery Science Theatre. Another KKK member demands someone drop their pants so he can see if he’s Jewish, because they’ve been “circumstanced.” Yeah, because…dumb people apparently don’t know the word “circumsized.”
Lee also had a few scenes that reminded me of things Tarantino has done (which is odd, considering how much he hates Tarantino). He had two characters talking about blaxploitation movies of the ‘70s. Now, in Inglorious Basterds, I didn’t think the scene worked when a young soldier and woman at a movie theatre, talked about their favorite Italian directors from the early 1900s. It’s a conversation I didn’t see them having, and one that wasn’t interesting. In this, Patrice and Ron talk about Pam Grier movies, and how these films represent their people. It’s a conversation I could see them having, and it was interesting. Then Lee decides to edit in clips that show us the actual movie posters. It was so dumb. Almost as dumb as the scene, in which the people behind me said, “It looks like those heads floating around in Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ video.” Someone is speaking, and you see these floating heads with afros, as they’re mesmerized.
Spike Lee is so preachy and heavy-handed, and it’s just not that interesting. It’s weird, because Jordan Peele (Key & Peele), did the terrific movie Get Out, and gave this story to Lee (they both produced). Perhaps he could give him lessons in subtly, and how to make an interesting movie. Heck, Lee could watch the recent Blindspotting and Sorry to Bother You — two brilliant films that show us some of the crap African-Americans have to deal with regarding police and racism. This is just a messy, poorly done movie that muddies his own political discourse.
The movie starts with Ron Stallworth (John David Washington, son of Denzel Washington) joining the Colorado Springs police. He works a lowly position in the records department, and is treated bad by one racist cop (who wasn’t a real character, but fictionalized for the movie). An officer named Jimmy (Michael Buscemi, the brother of Steve, who distractingly looks and sounds just like Steve) seems friendly to him, as does Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver). It was smart that the script was written in a way that Flip doesn’t immediately flip over the idea of working on this undercover operation. After all, Ron is a rookie, and he wonders why he’s leading an investigation. Also, it seems risky. Ron tries to appeal to Flip’s Jewish side (as the KKK hate Jews as much as they do Blacks). Once they get things going, they seem to be having a blast doing it. And it’s mildly entertaining to watch, for awhile. That’s sometimes hard, with the over-scored (and poorly scored) work of Terence Blanchard. My wife and I were both disappointed by the ‘70s song selection (somebody needs to put Brandy into retirement from movies. It’s been used in about 25 films, last time in Guardians of the Galaxy 2).
Just as I was one of the few critics that didn’t think the racist dialogue worked in Three Billboards, in this it reaches the breaking point very quickly, too.
The scenes with Patrice, who is into the civil rights movement and has a matching ‘fro, are somewhat interesting. It’s fun to hear a woman complaining about the cops, to an undercover cop. He slyly smiles and tries to explain why he doesn’t use the n-word and why he doesn’t hate the police.
It’s also interesting to hear Flip go on a racist rant about the Holocaust, while trying to gain the trust of the KKK, and trick one member that’s convinced he’s Jewish. But Lee ends up getting redundant with these types of scenes. We have to constantly hear Stallworth talking about how he hates blacks on the phone, and Flip has to constantly talk about Jews. The tone of this picture is all over the place, and just doesn’t work. The edits are bad. The split-screen shots aren’t necessary and make it come off as something one of his film students would’ve done.
Topher Grace does a good job as David Duke, but his voice is distracting, as it sounds like Topher the entire time. That’s why he and Baldwin shouldn’t have been cast.
Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton, Kong: Skull Island) as Stokely Carmichael worked powerfully, as did Harry Belafonte telling a story about the lynching of mentally challenged young black man in the early 1900s in Waco.
I also wonder about Lee’s choice to have dialogue about things like O.J. Simpson. When Flip is talking about his favorite people being black (Willie Mays, Wilt Chamberlain — two of my all-time favorite athletes), why does the third have to be O.J. Simpson and dialogue discussing how great he is? For a cheap laugh? I’d think this subject matter would be too important to throw in goofy jokes like that (there’s another about David Bowie, who recently passed away). Another cheap laugh he went for, fails on two fronts. First, it never happened. Second, it’s a scene stolen out of All in the Family (when the bigoted Archie Bunker is taking a photo with Sammy Davis Jr., and he quickly kisses Archie on the cheek right before the photo is snapped).
And somebody needs to explain to Lee that, we already thought white supremacists were evil. He doesn’t have to try to spell the message out for us, and in doing so, he makes a weaker film. And by making them a bunch of dumb yokels telling idiotic jokes, we just think of them as cartoonish goofballs. Wouldn’t it be more powerful if he made them somewhat smart and sinister, and people we need to worry about? Or at the very least, more than just one-dimensional dummies.
Ryan Eggold does a good job playing the charismatic Walter Breachway, who runs the local KKK chapter, and has to constantly keep his ignorant goons in check.
Nicholas Turturro is decent in his part, but my wife asked, “Would the KKK be associated with a guy that looks Mexican?” It’s irrelevant as again, that’s just a fictional character Lee made up, so there could be added drama. You see, he’s the guy that knows Flip is a cop, since he busted him years earlier (that’s a premise that has been done in other gangster films, but hey…we’re supposed to all consider Spike Lee a genius).
The last 10 minutes of the movie show a white nationalist march in Charlottesville, cut in with Trump talking about it, as well as footage of the car that ran over the crowd, killing a woman. Spike Lee has said he hopes this movie “brings down President Trump.” Uh, shouldn’t he hope his movie tells a great story on Ron Stallworth, and in the process, opens some eyes on racism? No, Lee would rather you think that things are the same in the country today as they were in the ‘70s, or in 1903, or any time in history when blacks were poorly treated. And according to his logic — we should blame Trump. Lee actually accomplished none of the things he set out to do, and that’s a shame. My wife even said, “I would’ve liked the movie to end with them telling us how long Stallworth was a cop, and some of his other accomplishments.”
Lee instead opts to show Trump videos to get a few digs in, when if he wanted to do that, he should’ve just used video of David Duke singing his praises (which he also has in the ending). Basically, Lee undermines the story that he doesn’t know how to properly tell.
Skip this movie, and instead go see two of the best movies this year, that tackle these subjects much better — Blindspotting and Sorry to Bother You. Those are films where characters weren’t caricatures. No one’s going to bogart this Spike Lee Joint.
This gets 1 ½ stars out of 5.


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Initially we felt good about deciding to forego spending $21.50 to see a Saturday night showing of Snowpiercer. Unfortunately our alternative mall wandering turned into a Criterion Blu-ray buying spree at Barnes & Noble. We ended up with several good movies, but didn’t save any money.
One of our new acquisitions was Purple Noon, the 1960 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley. We had watched the 1999 version a few months before, and seeing this earlier French take was a delightful exercise in contrasting styles.
Viewing different versions of the same story always provides a fascinating look into the unique perspectives, techniques and emphases of the film makers. Fans of classics often balk at the prospect of a remake, afraid perhaps that the first will be lost to the present.
When a movie is good to begin with, what makes a remake beneficial?
In the ideal scenario the new perspective offers a fresh take and a film sufficiently unique to stand alone without falling into cheap mimicry, which is the last refuge of a lazy creative. At times the new effort will surpass the first and set the standard even higher.
Compared with Anthony Minghella’s later film, René Clément’s Purple Noon is considered the more faithful adaptation of Highsmith’s story (which I have not read). Minghella adds at least two principal characters—Cate Blanchett’s Meredith Logue and Jack Davenport’s Peter Smith-Kingsley.
Clément also skips the exposition regarding how Ripley is hired by Greenleaf’s father to track down and bring home his prodigal son. This exclusion makes the earlier film a little tighter, but it also feels like a crucial part of Ripley’s motivation is missing or only hinted at.
The 1960 movie follows Tom Ripley through the machinations of his crime in a fairly straightforward way. On the other hand, Minghella mirrors the depths of Ripley’s strange and twisted soul and ends up with a movie that somehow feels a little more complicated, but also familiar. Overall the plotting of the 1999 movie feels more satisfying.
The main difference between the two movies comes largely from the shift in sympathy earned by Ripley and his friend Greenleaf (somewhat inexplicably named Philippe Greenleaf in Purple Noon and Dickie Greenleaf in The Talented Mr. Ripley.) The second movie almost completely reverses the empathy of the characters.
In Clément’s film, Greenleaf is a bully. He abuses Tom’s friendship and tramples over his girlfriend, Marge—tossing her devotion out to sea with the pages of her manuscript. On the other hand, Jude Law portrays Dickie Greenleaf as an inimitably charming wastrel. He is spoiled, lazy and sometimes even careless with people, but he is not cruel.
Alain Delon’s Tom Ripley is calculating and grasping. His affection for Greenleaf turns vengeful after repeated persecutions. However, even as he completes his revenge by stealing Marge’s affections, he is, to quote the Criterion liner notes, too “impossibly beautiful” to be sinister.
By contrast Matt Damon brings the creepy.
Clément’s Ripley wants what Greenleaf has; Minghella’s Ripley wants to be Greenleaf. Delon’s Ripley uses Greenleaf’s voice, possessions and name to get what he can’t have. Damon’s Ripley tries to consume Dickie’s personality to be who he is. He is the most monstrous of parasites trying to lose his past by taking on the identity of another.
Minghella’s movie addresses Ripley’s homoerotic urges as well, which explains some of Ripley’s crimes, but also makes it more disturbing to watch him destroy the people he loves the most with such deliberate and calculating coldness. It is the unhealthiest of loves because it is all grasping need. Greenleaf is unable to return Ripley’s affection either in kind or degree, and the relationship is doomed and destructive from the beginning.
The revised vision of Marge portrays this change in empathy best. In the first film, she can’t help but fall in love with Ripley by the end. In the second movie she never really trusts him. She vacillates between suspecting him and needing him, but she never fully believes him.
From the first uncorrected mistaken identity, Ripley gets sucked deeper and deeper into the morass of his own deception—at once both caught and careening down a dangerous path of desire and false entitlement. There is no happy ending possible, but even as that inevitability becomes more apparent, the greater our longing to see Ripley succeed.
He is undone by his own overreaching ambition and unchecked desire. He brings out the psychopath in us all and at least a little bit of longing to see him get away with it. However, the relief turns to horror as he gets away only to meet the one person who can undo it all.
The one unarguably superior element of the 1999 film is Philip Seymour Hoffman as Freddie Miles. He is perfect in his smug, arrogant disdainful condescending version of Freddie Miles. He is wholly despicable, brilliantly obnoxious.
Even though they hate each other Freddie is more like Tom’s probable future than Dickie. Freddie has all of Tom’s calculating cleverness and ruthlessness, but without his need, without his poverty.
If Tom succeeded in being rich—or if in an alternate reality had been born rich—he would be more Freddie than Dickie. Tom with confidence and self-assurance would find himself petty, cruel and thoroughly repulsive.
As with most Philip Seymour Hoffman performances he is always the best thing on the screen. He never steals a scene because he does not need to. He owns them.
It is not really a question of one film being better, which makes this an excellent example of a good remake. The original movie remains relevant and lovely maintaining its position. The remake offers a unique perspective that keeps it from feeling redundant or superfluous.
Whether original or remake, there is always room for a good movie, and that should be the only criterion that matters.


Fans of Elizabeth Taylor have reason to rejoice! The Belcourt is kicking off their Elizabeth Taylor Film Series, "Reflections in a Violet Eye", this weekend with "National Velvet". Films show on Saturdays and Sundays and continue from June 4th through July 17th! Don't miss this opportunity to see some of Elizabeth's best film work and most iconic style moments.
Liz's beauty was evident as a young star in "National Velvet" -her violet colored eyes and raven hair were striking, even at a young age.
Her glamour was hauntingly beautiful alongside co-star Montgomery Clift in "A Place in the Sun". Wearing designs by famed Hollywood designer, Edith Head, Liz quickly became one of the most stylish beauties in film.
And who can resist her white hot looks in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with hunky Paul Newman?
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If you don't see all of the films (which I highly encourage) "Boom" is the one film you simply MUST see! This 1968 film features Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton with amazing costumes by Roman Couture House, Tiziani with designer Karl Lagerfeld having a hand in the designs.
It is a cinematic feast for the eyes and one of the most misunderstood films of the 1960's.
Get ready to be dazzled! Visit Belcourt's website for this event, http://www.belcourt.org/events?id=75763, to get all the details and show times!


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The wait is almost over – Downton Abbey’s Season 3 premieres in January 2013. To generate buzz for this, we worked with PBS on Masterpiece’s Downton Abbey to create a 5 minute recap video of seasons 1 and 2, which launched on their website earlier this week.
The goal was to create a shareable video that would tap into the existing fan base of really loyal fans, but also engage and entice new fans from a wider demographic to get a glimpse into the dramatic storyline.
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Kenneth Okonkwo, a popular Nollywood actor, politician and man of God graduated with a degree in Business Administration from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in Enugu State and later studied Law at the University of Lagos, Akoka. He studied theology at the Bible School; however in 2014 he went into politics in Enugu state.
He was among the actors that made Nollywood what it is today. He was brought to the limelight following the role he played as ‘Andy’ in the movie living in bondage, a Nigerian drama thriller released in 1992 which started Nollywood. Since then Kenneth Okonkwo has stayed true to his craft, his is also known for being an actor and producer, known for Trumpet of Death (2007), Trumpet of Death 2 (2007) and Village Destroyers 2 (2007), television soap opera ‘Ripple’. He was awarded a Professional Fellowship Doctorate in Economics by the institute of Chartered Economics of Nigeria.
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Let’s face it. We are going to watch a whole bunch of moves over the next couple of weeks. We will be nursing hangovers, escaping family or just enjoying some high quality couch time.
Netflix and On-Demand movies give us so many choices. How will you decide?
Here are my recommendations for great movies with a career lessons built right in. I am not saying they will cause you to edit your resume the moment you are done, but you might want to keep your laptop handy, just in case.
Working Girl – classic comedy with Melanie Griffiths, Sigourney Weaver and a very young Harrison Ford. A great story and it’s pretty neat to see all these stars when they were just starting out.
9 – 5 – dated but very funny movie about the ladies in the secretarial pool taking over the world. Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily to Tomlin round out this cast.
Mrs Doubtfire – Robin Williams shines as a divorced dad who has to take on a whole new career to be able to see his kids
Tootsie – Dustin Hoffman transforms himself into a soap opera actress ” of a certain age” to get an acting job with hysterical and unpredictable results.
Wolf of Wall Street – Leonardo de Caprio brings us the whole career of the infamous trader who won and lost a huge fortune. There are lots of lessons here.
Catch Me if You Can– an another Leo de Caprio character study. This one is interesting because the main character is a con man who takes on a dozen careers throughout the movie. A good study of how far street smarts and a little nerve will get you. (Although it’s helpful to have a broken moral compass too).
Margin Call – a young analyst played by Chris Pine learns about the ugly side of the Wall Street careers with Kevin Spacey leading an excellent cast ensemble.
Patch Adams – you will need a couple of tissues for this one but it is worth it. Robin Williams takes us through the true story of a man who rose to become a well known physician, clown and author. Enough said.
Feel free to post a comment about your favourites. I am sure there are lots more.
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When I read your headline my first thought was “Working Girl”. And you’ve got it number 1. Good list! How about Charlies Angels for showcasing how you can repurpose and retrain for a new job? Not to mention underscoring the value work/life balance and building strong relationships with co-workers?


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I put a black and white film in my SLR camera on the 28th January. It’s been a hard slog using up this film and I only got it finished and developed this week! I find it harder to think in black and white, there is so much more to consider when composing a shot. Shapes, tones, textures, shadows and highlights. Having waited three months to work my way through the film I cheated and Plastic magpie camera club did the processing for me. I’d hoped, as I always do when waiting for a film to come back, for outstanding results. These are ok, i don’t think i’d have taken the same shots in colour and there’s an added sense of drama to the otherwise mundane. I feel i’ve learnt some valuable lessons, and I’m safely back to colour film now!
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Renowned playwright and screenwriter David Mamet made his directorial debut with this film about a psychiatrist who gets caught up in the world of underground gambling and con games.
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In this comedy a cab driver overhears a hot tip about a horse that cannot lose and wins big. Lured in by the easy money he gets the gambling bug and then has trouble stopping.
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Once Upon a Time in America Full Metal Jacket Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Sam 'Ace' Rothstein Sharon Stone Ginger McKenna Joe Pesci Nicky Santoro James Woods Lester Diamond Don Rickles Billy Sherbert Alan King Andy Stone Kevin Pollak Pat Webb Dick Smothers Frank Marino John Bloom Don Ward Pasquale Cajano Remo Gaggi Melissa Prophet Jennifer Santoro Bill Allison John Nance Vinny Vella Edit Storyline This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one.
No one stays at the top forever. Edit Did You Know? Trivia The costume budget for the film was one million dollars.
Robert De Niro had seventy different costumes throughout the film, Sharon Stone had forty. Both were allowed to keep their costumes afterwards.
As Nicky and his brother are being buried in the desert grave, Dominick is dumped into the grave first and lands on his right side, facing right. The next time we see him, moments later, he is lying on his left side, and facing left as Nicky is dumped on top of him.
Quotes [ first lines ] Ace Rothstein: There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours.
Otherwise, what's the point? And for a while, I believed, that's the kind of love I had. Crazy Credits "This is a fictional story with fictional characters adapted from a true story.
However, we at Gambling. One of the better biographical gambling movies around, the affectionately-named Stuey features Michael Imperioli playing Stu Ungar, a high roller famed for being the only poker player to ever win three WSOP Main Event tournaments.
Jeff Bridges plays a depressed individual down on his luck but with one possible redeeming feature in his life; Seabiscuit, an apparently useless horse found by a cowboy trainer Chris Cooper.
Tobey Maguire plays the unlikely jockey who goes on to steer Seabiscuit to numerous victories in one of the great underdog stories of the twentieth century.
Featuring a youthful Matt Damon , Rounders is the tale of an entrepreneur who pays for his university fees by winning at the poker table.
The film is full of famous faces, with John Malkovich and Edward Norton also making appearances. The film is carried along by brilliant performances — Norton, in particular, is spectacular — and authentic depictions of poker strategy and table banter that few other gambling movies render so successfully.
Aptly named, The Gambler tells the story of a university professor played by a compelling James Caan , who has an addiction for casino gambling.
As his borrowing becomes steadily worse and his need for thrills ever greater than the last threatens to endanger his life, the film builds to a steady crescendo and brilliant climax.
This is one for the gambling purists, who will be able to identify regularly with the character on screen.
It also serves as a pretty severe warning against addiction — of any kind. Sydney sees an opportunity to leave a legacy and takes John under his wing, teaching him all that there is to know about the gambling business.
Along the way John meets Clementine and she turns his life upside down. The Hustler recently celebrated its 50th anniversary.
This was the movie that rocketed Paul Newman to stardom as he played an ambitious pool shark named Fast Eddie Felson.
In his quest to be the best pool-player to have ever lived, he goes under the tutelage of Brett Newman who teaches him how to play-to-win in the big time.
This is a must-watch for anyone who loves to hold the cue. The best movies always get remakes and this one has a star-studded cast.
Anything less would have been unacceptable. George Clooney plays Danny Ocean who is fresh out of prison and wants revenge on the casino owner who had him locked up so he gets a crew together and plans to rob three casinos in one night.
This one is all about high-stakes poker in the Wild West. Five of the richest men in Laredo gather for their annual high-stakes poker game. Nothing keeps these high-rollers from their game and one of them even postpones his daughter's wedding to make sure that he's sitting at the table.
Think about that the next time life gets in the way of your love for the cards. If you're going to Las Vegas, don't hold back.
Fill your trunk with every intoxicant known to man, get your buddy to ride shotgun, let the top down and take a long trip into the recesses of your own mind.
I'll always remember this movie for that scene where the two of them are trying to get into the hotel lobby, legless on their ether high.
If you love gambling but don't have the skill for it you could get a job as croupier. At the very least you get to see others win and live vicariously through them.
This was the life of Jack Manfred, played by Clive Owen , up until he realized that he was witnessing golden material that he could use for his book.
Inspiration comes from everywhere. College life is tough. Three students find that their student loans can't afford them the life that they want to live so they start a business as bookies.
Their booming business soon attracts the attention of local authorities as well as rival bookies in the same territory.
Gambling and law-breaking are always going to be closely associated. Probably because when most gamblers are in the red they resort to crime to stay afloat.
It makes the clean players look bad but at least it makes for good stories. In The Good Thief, an aging gambler aims to rob a casino but the odds are stacked against him as someone has tipped off the cops about his plans.
Dinner Rush follows the tale of a father-and-son duo who are proprietors of an Italian restaurant and both have vested interests in the gambling world.
On one eventful night they are hosting a cop, rival bookmakers and demanding food critic. The plot thickens faster than the soup as the night draws to a climactic end.
Killing them softly is about an amateur crook who is hired by the latter-type of poker player to rob an illegitimate game being hosted by Mafia bosses.
Mafia bosses are men of pride and they weren't going to let this insult go unpunished so they start an investigation into the heist, murdering anybody who may been involved to restore confidence in their local gambling scene.
If you have a problem with something it may be wise to avoid it. Steve Buscemi stars as gambling addict who moves away from Las Vegas but when he finds himself falling into old patterns he realizes that he can't keep running from his problems.


15 Amazing Performances In Terrible Movies
There are some movies that are just so bad that you wouldn't recommend them to anyone. With few good qualities, they've either completed missed the point of their subject material, are a shameless cash-in or just have no plot to keep them going long enough. However, sometimes an actor gives their all to a really bad project.
Whether it is because they are a consummate professional, they don't know how the final product will turn out or that they've just got a point to prove, these actors give a decent show of themselves in otherwise bad films.
15. Christopher Walken - Gigli
A dull affair of a film that was unique in that it was odd yet still boring in its oddness and followed the questionable storyline of a low-level mobster (Ben Affleck) working with a lesbian criminal (Jennifer Lopez) to kidnap the mentally challenged brother of a federal prosecutor. Walken doesn't have a big part in the film but when he crops up he provides the only decent moment.
Known for his wacky,over the top character, Walken pulls a genuinely interesting police investigator out of the bag with his odd emphasis on words making the character one worthy of screen ti,e. Probably the only one that was.
14. Naomi Watts - Shut In
Shut In starts off as an intriguing drama about a child psychologist whose patient goes missing and then begins to stalk her house. It has all the potential of being a genuinely brilliant thriller but pretty rapidly devolves into silliness and cheap jump scares for the sake of being scary and failing miserably.
That being said, Watts gives a great turn as a grieving woman in psychological turmoil and if she were offered something meatier to get her teeth into, this could have been a really, really good film. But it wasn't.
13. Andrew Garfield - The Amazing Spiderman 2
The reboot of The Spiderman series was a shameless cash-grab after the rights for the Spiderman name were running out and so Sony had to make a new film. Original director and star didn't want to take part so Andrew Garfield was called in to help out in a hastily cobbled together series that only made money because...Spiderman.
Anyway, Garfield gave it his all and actually nails the angsty Peter Parker role really well which is a shame because the films stank to high heaven and now there's a new bloke playing Spidey. Garfield comes into his own in the second film but we'd already lost interest by that point.
12. Mickey Rourke - The Expendables
This was a stupid film, it knows it's a stupid film because the concept is to get as many aging action stars on screen as possible. Many of them sleep walk through it because it is easy money and they know people will see it just because there's a load of names involved. Rourke, however, is the only one who treats it like art.
It's not art Mickey, it's trash but your desperate attempts to add depth to your character are appreciated.
11. Max Von Sydow - Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
People may point to this film's Oscar nomination as a way of suggesting it doesn't deserve the tag of 'bad film' but although it was undeniably adapted from an incredible book, the on-screen version of events is overly sentimental to the point of it coming across as shamelessly tugging at the heartstrings without ever doing too much to deserve it.
Von Sydow is a great actor in pretty much everything he does but, playing a mute man, he manages to bring a level of sincerity to the picture without having to say anything and that takes some doing.
10. Jennifer Aniston - Cake
Jennifer Aniston typically finds herself in standard rom-com's or films that cast her in a variation of her iconic Rachel role from Friends. However, in Cake, she stepped out of this and into the shoes of a woman dealing with chronic pain issues. The film is hardly a revelation and is filled with cliches that you'd expect to see from an indie film.
Aniston is a breath of fresh air though as she gives an inspired performance that will shock many who dismiss her standard repertoire.
9. Jim Carrey - The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
A comedy satirizing the absurdity of professional magic, this movie had an all-star cast and a hilarious concept but it fell short as just a picture putting together cliched jokes and going through the motions of things we've seen before. If only it had pushed the envelope a bit more it could have been great.
Carrey however, gives a committed performance as a pretentious and deluded endurance artist that raises him above everyone else there trying to pick up a paycheck.
8. Ben Foster - The Program
Given that its subject matter was one of the most controversial and shocking sporting deceptions ever and that it was still in the news at the time, The Program had all the characteristics to be a brilliant portrait of a man driven by his desire to win no matter what the cost. The problem is that only Ben Foster appeared to get this memo.
There are actually some excellent performances in this otherwise lackluster tale but Foster raises the bar with his cold, arrogant portrayal of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong that leaves others in his wake.
7. The Huntsman: The Winter's War
Snow White and The Huntsman was a decent but unoriginal adaptation of the Snow White fairytale that had nowhere to go after it was completed and yet the studio decided to squeeze out a wholly unnecessary sequel that looked very pretty and lacked any substance. Still, Charlize Theron managed to salvage something from it.
Clearly clocking the film for what it is Theron offers up a sense of deliberately chewing the scenery whilst everyone else takes their characters far too seriously. This makes her far more fun than anyone else to watch on screen as she plays all out evil to perfection and upstages everyone else in the process.
6. Jake Gyllenhall - Southpaw
To be fair to Southpaw, it's not actually a bad film but it is disappointing for ll the potential it offered up. Billed as a modern day Raging Bull, the film is so dark that it becomes a real slog to get through it as it lacks any wit or brevity what so ever. Nonetheless, Gyllenhall smashed his way through it with commitment.
Physically altering himself to epic proportions, he gives the performance of a lifetime as the downbeat boxer and he uses his physicality to his advantage throughout.
5. Eddie Murphy - Tower Heist
For those who remember Eddie Murphy as a star in the 80s, a grandstand performance will be nothing new to them. The 2000s generation might look upon him less favorably, though, although, he has pulled some amazing performances (Dreamgirls anyone?) out of the bag here and there and he does so in Tower Heist.
It's just such a shame the film is a terrible, comedy by numbers with an orchestrated Ben Stiller lead performance.
4. Hank Azaria - The Smurfs
A cynical CGI adaptation of the tiny, blue comic book characters and their wizarding nemesis sees the Smurfs supplanted into New York city in a slapstick family adventure that is as dry as heck, but very young children may enjoy it (few else will). Azaria however, embodies a human cartoon character very well.
His ability with voices and comic timing makes his performance as an over exaggerated villain, actually very watchable.
The guy who gave us genuine action classics such as RoboCop and Total Recall (the first one, the good one) turns his hand to gender politics and screws it up...like, really, really badly. To the point that it is exploitative, offensive and morally repugnant. So why would anyone want to watch it? Well, for one thing, it is overly dramatic, it is a wonder that anyone thought this would be a genuinely thought provoking film.
That being said, Gina Gershon seems to know how bad this film is and so runs with it making the hammy overacting of everyone else look even worse as she seems to have fun with what she's doing, making her the scene stealer in every shot she's in.
2. Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
What many American viewers don't appreciate is just how divisive and controversial a politician Margaret Thatcher was to the British people. Loved or hated, there were many extreme policies she enacted that garnered her both praise and got the hackles up of others. A biopic of her years in power with perennial Oscar nominee (and sometimes winner) Meryl Streep should have been immense award fodder.
The fact that the film completely glossed over many of her most controversial moments and cobbles together a rather dull narrative by picking and choosing the moments it does show very poorly, Streep, however, nails the portrayal with a fiery determination and an excellent turn from loud and unmovable 'Iron Lady' to softer, more diplomatic leader.
1. Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar
Before he won an Oscar, Leo threw himself into everything he did in order to try and win one. J. Edgar saw him give a towering performance as the former FBI director who was controversial and widely feared. The actor manages to capture the rage that terrified his enemies whilst also humanizing the man, which is no mean feat for a character that was previously seen as untouchable.
The problem with the film is that it is too ambitious. Hoover has so many elements to his life that could be films in their own rights that the film can only cherry pick but it does this too lightly, not covering enough when it does settle on something and completely ignoring other parts altogether.


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If you are thinking about getting HBO along with your cable package, you are reading the right thing. HBO offers a range of quality movies and shows to choose from. So, whether you want to enjoy romance or action, you’ll never run out of content to watch.
By choosing any reliable TV plan like the Spectrum TV package, you purchase an HBO add-on. This will allow you to stay on budget and enhance your TV viewing experience. This guide will discuss all the amazing TV shows in detail that you can watch on HBO. Read on to know more about this.
Six Feet Under
This is an amazing show for all the drama and thrill lovers. This show first aired in 2001. It has five seasons. The story follows a household that is involved in managing a funeral home. So, this series is mostly around murder and death.
So, if you are looking for a good suspenseful show to watch, you should check out this one. Some of its most notable cast members are Michael C. Hall, Lauren Ambrose, and Peter Krause extra. So, all the classic TV lovers should check out this show if they are HBO subscribers.
If you are a fan of Bill Hader, you’ll love this show. The plotline revolves around the life of Barry, a former hitman. But he finally decides to let go of his past and become an actor. However, on his path to become an actor, he realizes that the past can’t be forgotten so easily.
But contrary to its seemingly dark storyline, the show itself is not so meek. It has its fun parts and you’ll thoroughly enjoy the ride. It has just two seasons and around 17 episodes. So, if you have ample time, watch this popular show to enjoy both the comedy and the action.
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones has become this classic TV series that everyone has fallen in love with. It has a very diverse cast. Some of the most notable cast members include Kit Harrington, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Richard Madden, and Sophie Turner extra.
The creators have done an amazing job of creating this highly complicated fantasy world. But what really stands out about this series is its wonderful storyline. You never know how long your favorite character is going to survive. It is an adventurous ride for the viewers. And the best part about this series is its cinematography. You can watch it more than once without feeling bored.
Loved Friends? Then you should definitely watch this one as well. The story revolves around a former popular star as she tries to regain her lost popularity. The main role is performed by none other than our favorite Lisa Kudrow.
The best part about this series is Lisa Kudrow’s performance. She portrays a very outgoing yet vulnerable character. That is why you can’t help but feel extremely empathetic towards her character at a time. This show originally aired in 2005. But due to some issues, the second season was not made. However, in 2014 the show was back with a second season on HBO.
This is undoubtedly the best show on HBO. Its storyline revolves around smart AI robots and their interaction with affluent Westworld visitors. The visitors get to play out their fantasies with the robots. The series is full of physical and sexual violence. Therefore, only adults that can tolerate watching extreme violence should go for this season.
The best part about this series is its thrill. You can never know what kind of new twist is coming for you. Also, the cinematography is great. So, one can easily get lost in the Rocky Mountains and beautiful and stylish costumes.
If you love comedies, you are definitely going to love this one. It follows the story of a few coders who try to develop their own company. It has six seasons. And the total numbers of episodes add up to 53 in number. So, you might need enough time to watch this series.
But the amazing thing about this series is that it is filled with tech stuff. So, if you are tech-freak and want to stay on top of things, you should binge-watch this season. The show has some amazing cast members including Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani, and Josh Brener extra.
Big Little Lies
It is another great series to binge-watch on HBO. The storyline involves few upper-class mothers dealing with the trauma and relationships in their lives. A murder turns their lives upside down and pushes them to confront the difficult situations in their lives.
This series has an amazing cast. You’ll find your favorite actresses like Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley in this series’ roles. The music is and the suspense is great. This amazing series will surely keep on the edge of your seat for the whole duration of 14 episodes.
Are you a fan of Matthew McConaughey, you’ll surely love this show. It has three seasons. The story pace is somewhat slow. But the storyline is totally worth it. The murder mysteries and the detectives’ own life struggles will leave you craving more!


John has just come back from the States where he filmed an extended length episode of Star Trek New Voyages/Phase II. The special Klingon episode was entitled "Kitumba" and was a revised version of a script first written in the late 70s but never filmed. The episode is action packed and as well as playing Captain Kargh, John staged a massive fight scene involving over 20 people. John says it is the best film work he has ever done. Kitumba is due out on the net in 2010.
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The Film Collectors Who Risked Everything To Preserve Film History
We don’t know how easy we’ve got it. Film collecting these days is a pretty straight-forward process. You can simply roll up to the store to buy almost any of your favorite films on DVD or Blu-ray. Easier still, you open your laptop/turn on your computer and have access to films throughout history on a variety of formats.
You can keep track of what you’ve got and what you need to get on a digital platform you can access wherever you go at the touch of a button (or you could stream, but where’s the joy in that, right?). While these conveniences seem like a given to us, we rarely give a thought to only a few decades earlier when you could only see a movie if it was screening somewhere near you, much less own it, or even have a whole collection of all your favorites films on hand.
With this in mind, it’s fairly inconceivable that film collecting was once relegated to a criminal underbelly. There were a few guys in LA in the 60s and 70s trading in real film, with the FBI hot on their heels. In the mid-70s, at the behest of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the FBI was coming down hard on film collectors who sold movies from New York to LA. The problem with being a hardcore film collector/dealer pre-wholesale distribution was that it often also involved piracy and illegal trading. These film collectors would have to go to the lengths of obtaining film stock from studios (not always through legal means).
The book ‘A Thousand Cuts‘, co-authored by Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph, digs into the history of film collectors and the role they play in the history and preservation of film. According to the book, many of the collectors persecuted by the FBI were gay men. In 1975, Roddy McDowall was busted by the FBI with a collection of film they claimed was worth over $5 million. Rather than face serious charges, he reached an agreement with the FBI, whereby he would name fellow collectors, Rock Hudson and Mel Tormé. In a statement issued to the FBI, McDowall stated he had been collecting prints since the 60s, citing the reasons being to study the performances of other actors, and to protect certain films from being lost to age or neglect – which wasn’t an unfounded concern.
Woody Wise, a renowned film collector and dealer of the era, (and focal point of Matt Novak’s excellent piece ‘How 1960s Film Pirates Sold Movies Before the FBI Came Knocking‘ for Gizmodo’s Paleofuture blog) who became a felon in the process, was a theatre manager in the ’60s. As a way to make a bit of extra cash at a time when movie theaters were struggling to compete against the relatively new advent of the television, he started handling the shipping of film prints from major studios in Washington D.C. to regional Virginia a couple of times a week.
As Wise told Novak in an interview, he would befriend the guys in the shipping department of film exchanges of studios like Universal, Paramount, and MGM where all the 35mm film prints were stored. “When a movie breaks back then [in the 1960s], they put it in like a hundred theaters. And, of course that’s film. That’s 100 films. After two or three weeks, they only need 20 and [the movie studios] pay tax on every print that’s in the room… so they have to junk 80 prints – they have to throw them away. So you can kind of guess the story there, when I find out they’re throwing these things away…” After finding out these film prints were being thrown on the trash heap, his friends in these shipping departments came in handy, swapping junked prints for a few bucks. It started as one movie every now and then, but soon ramped up.
Destroying film prints wasn’t a new thing in the 60s. As studios had to pay tax on every print they were holding onto, once that film had had its day they would lose money on those prints pretty quickly, so throwing them away was just a practicality. Not to mention that prior to the adoption of ‘safety film’ having a tonne of extremely flammable nitrate stock around was pretty dangerous. It was so flammable that it made great kindling any time a studio needed to make a huge fire scene for a movie. As the film critic Carl Sandburg once wrote, ‘The next time you watch Atlanta burn in Gone With The Wind, realize that these flames are probably being stoked with movie history”.
While we could herald these collectors as saviours of physical media and preservers of culture – their motivations weren’t strictly selfless. There was money to be made. When the exchanges did a mass purge of films, Wise and other film collectors like him would get to go and take their pick before they were scrapped. Wise says he would usually pay about $15-20 each, then sell them on for $75. Wise finally ended up getting charged with interstate transportation of stolen goods following the sale of a single 35mm print of the 1968 William Wyler film, Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand.
The real dealer the FBI was supposedly after was someone who was selling prints to South African film distributors during a time of cultural boycott led by the UN. Major film companies weren’t sending films to South Africa in protest of apartheid, creating a black market for nefarious film collectors to cash in on, though they never brought charges against anyone for this.
In the 70s, with the rise of home VCR systems and home recording devices, the Supreme Court would rule that recording movies and television was no longer copyright infringement. It was a move that angered the MPAA, who would go on to profit off the sale of VHS.
Bartok and Joseph conclude that film (real film) collecting will almost definitely fade into history, as most enthusiasts will prefer the convenience, quality and accessibility of a brand new Blu-ray over a scratched and faded original 16mm or 35mm. But without these collectors who have gone before us, who knows what we’d be left with.


Granmore had an interesting customer come into the store today to enquire about ceiling tiles.
The customer worked for a film studio who were filming a scene set in a school In the Manchester Area.
The scene was to include an actor playing a student damaging a suspended ceiling, as part of this they needed to obtain some very affordable ceiling tiles that look like a stereotypical “office tile”.
They wanted to replace the tiles already up with these tiles so that they could damage them while filming, and then put the original ones back in, as this was being filmed in a real schools common room.
We recommended the ND Fissured tiles as they are very inexpensive and have the fissured look of an office type tile.
The Film Crew member who had been sent out to find these was very pleased with the tiles and told us they were perfect for the scene.