guardian.co.uk Film:
It might prove something of a boon to those who reach for the remote control when yet another costume drama comes on television: Elton John's Rocket Pictures is developing a new spin on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, this (Read More)
Gawker:
Jade Goody, a 27-year-old British woman suffering from cervical cancer, had her diagnosis broadcast on national television. And now that her illness has been deemed terminal, she'll film her last moments alive. Goody, a mult (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
It's a secret so closely guarded even Dan Brown's code-breaking hero Robert Langdon would have been hard-pressed to uncover it, but it appears the cat may finally be out of the bag. Thanks to an inadvertent revelation from fi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
It's hard not to laugh at Joaquin Phoenix, when he's falling off the stage while performing shambolic, mumbled "hip-hop" to confused fans at a Vegas nightclub, and especially when he turns up on David Letterman, as he did las (Read More)
/Film:
Sony has released the full trailer for Ron Howard’s Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons. I’ve said this before I’m a huge fan of the book. It’s better than the Da Vinci Code in almost every way, but, (Read More)
The Guardian:
There can't be many new DVD releases of short film anthologies which are unstintingly riveting all the way through. But here's one. For the past couple of days, I have been glued to the BFI's incredible collection The Joy of (Read More)
The Guardian:
Were a foreigner to study Jeremy Paxman's CV, they would probably form an image of a broadcaster of respectable but limited popular appeal. A middle- class, middle-aged man, he has worked as a foreign correspondent and a Pano (Read More)
Film School Rejects:
After reading Audrey Anton’s The Nietzschean Influence in The Incredibles and the Sidekick Revolt (found within “The Amazing Transforming Superhero! Essays on the Revision of Characters in Comic Books, Film and Televisi (Read More)
/Film:
Universal has released a full length trailer for Land of the Lost on Subwayfreshbuzz.com. It’s basically an extended version of the teaser that played during the Super Bowl. We get to see more of the fantastical land in the a (Read More)
The Guardian:
Sitting in the lobby after the interview, I look up and see that a man has stopped on his way out. "Thank you," he's saying to me, "thanks for coming by, it was good to meet you." I wonder what this stranger is talking about. (Read More)
The Guardian:
It was all going so well for the University of Exeter.A couple of months ago, it was dubbed a rising star for its world-class research.Weeks later, its vice-chancellor, Professor Steve Smith, was picked as the next head of th (Read More)
/Film:
Michael Sheen has two movies in release this weekend. The classically-trained Welsh actor plays Lucien in the wildly commercial Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (Sony), opening on about 3,000 screens, and he plays David Frost i (Read More)
The Guardian:
In 2002 I made a series of films for the BBC on the Israel-Palestine conflict. In the first episode of The Ugly War the crew followed commando units of the Israeli army making raids into Palestinian territory. In the next I s (Read More)
/Film:
Pat Hingle, a veteran actor known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures, has died at age 84 after a battle with blood cancer.Hingle is probably best known to the /Film community as the actor who pla (Read More)
The Guardian:
With thousands of post-meltdown City traders getting the heave-ho in recent months, the time isn't obviously ripe to launch a TV show that sets out to prove how easy it is to be one. But here comes BBC2's Million Dollar Trade (Read More)
The Guardian:
When writer Héctor Tobar returned to America last year after seven years living in Latin America, he came back to a profoundly changed land. He had left a United States riding an economic boom. House prices were soaring, subu (Read More)
The Guardian:
They topped the Christmas ratings with Wallace and Gromit's bakery adventure, A Matter of Loaf and Death, but Aardman Animations' latest challenge is their most daunting yet.A cartoon advert by the award-winning firm will be (Read More)
/Film:
Some television show creators (or what they call show runners) have provided commentary on various episodes on DVD. Others like Battlestar Galactica’s Ronald Moore, have gone a step further and released a weekly audio c (Read More)
/Film:
Steven Spielberg’s first completed 35mm short film is Amblin’. Shot in 1968 with a $15,000 budget, the 26-minute short film resulted in Sid Sheinberg signing Spielberg to a long-term deal at Universal under the Te (Read More)