Month: July 2009

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker

2 July 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

I often wonder what happened to Kathryn Bigelow’s career. She’s arguably one of the best directors in Hollywood, directing movies like Point Break, Blue Steel and K-19. But she’s not had the stratospheric adulation that ex-hubby James Cameron’s had. In a world where McG and Brett Ratner get to make movies, this seems appalling, and I’m just going to accuse Hollywood of rampant sexism here.

Okay, Strange Days might have been to blame for her career decline, but she has been responsible for some really fantastically directed scenes:

Her latest movie, about a US bomb squad in Baghdad, is on limited release in the US. I’m not going to say anything about the writing, but take a look at how well The Hurt Locker is directed.

What prize would you like to win in my competition?

2 July 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

I may be running a competition to win a prize on this ‘ere blog very soon.

Wow, that was vague, wasn’t it?

See, I haven’t decided on the prize. There’s a range of options, all of them DVDs or Blu-Ray disks, most of them Film4/Channel 4 content, but I’m not sure what y’all would like best. So I’m going to give you the options, you say which one you’d like to win best, and I’ll see if I can swing it with TPTB (no guarantees).

Right, here they are:

  • Stephen Tompkinson’s African Balloon Adventure
  • Close My Eyes
  • Gerry
  • Very Annie Mary
  • My Brother Tom
  • Gregory’s Two Girls
  • Late Night Shopping
  • Miranda
  • The Emperor’s New Clothes
  • Hear My Song
  • Gangster No.1
  • Star Stories Series 3 & Box Set 1-3
  • Motorcycle diaries – Blu-Ray
  • East is East – Blu-Ray
  • Sexy Beast – Blu-Ray
  • Touching the void – Blu-Ray
  • In the shadow of the moon – Blu-Ray
  • Supernatural 4.1
  • Shallow Grave – Blu-Ray
  • Trainspotting – Blu-Ray

Thursday’s stupidest ever movie adaption news

2 July 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

  • BBC Films picks up rights to the forthcoming Ordinary Thunderstorms
  • Oh surely not. Universal wins movie rights to Atari’s ‘Asteroids’

Books

  • Catcher in the Rye ‘sequel’ blocked

Theatre

  • The Shawshank Redemption moves to the West End
  • Jude Law‘s Hamlet moves to Broadway

British TV

US TV