General movie news
Jul 13
Here is the first trailer for “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”, the latest Sherlock Holmes adventure directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock and Jude Law as Dr. Watson. They are joined by Noomi Rapace, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Fry and Jared Harris. I really enjoyed the first Guy Ritchie “Sherlock …
Jul 12
We got the teaser a few weeks back and I loved it. Now a full length trailer for “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson. As I said in a previous post, I am a huge Tintin fan and I am really looking forward …
Jul 08
Part 2 of the new Geek Actually multi part opinion piece about the films of “The Twilight Saga” Twilight: New Moon – The Puppy People Strike Back Welcome back, Gentle Reader, to the second instalment of my reviews of The Twilight Saga. To recap, David has requested that I review these film (a journey he …
Jul 07
Yesterday I got the opportunity to see about 20 minutes of footage from the new Twentieth Century Fox film “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and I was very impressed. Fox gave a nice presentation hosted by Weta Digital’s special effects guru Joe Letteri. According to Letteri this is the second biggest film, after …
Jul 05
Well this is a strange one. When I heard about this remake I assumed it was a film version of the Broadway Musical that was based on the original 1984 Kevin Bacon film of the same name. This kind of made sense to me as “Hairspray” (2007) was very successful and it was based on …
