January 2011
19 articles
Henry Cavill to play Superman in Zack Snyder-directed film
Henry Cavill, star of Showtime’s period drama “The Tudors,” has been given the keys to the Fortress of Solitude. The 27-year-old actor, who was on the short lists to play both Batman and Superman...
Jan 31, 2011 / Eric M. Armstrong‘The King’s Speech’ reigns with 12 Oscar nominations
Tom Hooper’s period drama about King George VI and his debilitating speech impediment reigned supreme with 12 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Supporting...
Jan 25, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe conservatism of ‘The King’s Speech’
What an intense cinema moment we seem to be living through. The general public is getting as excited as the critics about movies. Here in the UK, at least, everyone seems to be making the effort to...
Jan 24, 2011 / Alison FrankMonsters (2010)
The most common mistake made by first-time directors is to cram every film school trick and cutting edge idea into that debut film. A bloated, pretentious, insufferable and flashy effort is often the...
Jan 21, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongWikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to get a big screen biopic
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, who has stirred global controversy by releasing classified documents and communication wires between top government officials, will get his story told on the big...
Jan 21, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongAnne Hathaway to play Catwoman, Tom Hardy to play Bane in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
Batman may have found himself a new love interest, and a new baddy to defend Gotham against once again. On Wednesday, Warner Bros. Pictures announced that Anne Hathaway (“Rachel Getting Married”) has...
Jan 19, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongTerrible things have happened here: Reflections and retribution in Holocast Cinema
The theater doors blast open, and Quentin Tarantino’s band of Jewish soldiers bursts in with fury, guns first. Showering the audience—once their oppressors—in a rain of bullets, the gunmen stand...
Jan 19, 2011 / Rod Bastanmehr‘Hævnen/In a Better World’ is Oscar worthy
There are a couple of reasons why everyone should watch “Hævnen”. The first is that is a beautiful film, a beauteous film, with all the slightly otherworldly aloofness that the word suggests. The...
Jan 17, 2011 / Kamayani SharmaJames Bond Will Return
For months, millions of fans around the globe have been wondering, ‘Will James Bond return?’ Now they can finally rejoice; his licence to kill has not been revoked. After his involuntary hiatus, the...
Jan 17, 2011 / Torsten ReitzToo great expectations: ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’
In last week’s blog I talked about the experience of seeing a film with low expectations, and the potential this has to skew one’s judgement, making a surprisingly good film seem even better than it...
Jan 17, 2011 / Alison FrankThe 10 Best Films of 2010
Luca Guadagnino's "I Am Love" I Am Love Luca Guadagnino’s astonishingly beautiful portrait of a woman torn between love and loyalty. A deep, layered, stylish work of cinema with all the passion and...
Jan 15, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongNew Spider-Man Revealed
Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man Sony has released the first official photo from their new Spider-Man film. Andrew Garfield, who starred in “Never Let Me Go” and “The Social Network,” will don the...
Jan 14, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongMarching through a blizzard at the bottom of the world: George Miller’s microcosmic penguin mythmaking
I don’t think there is a singular film-maker I’ve found myself having written more about than Australia’s own Dr. George Miller. And now, writing this, I’m still not quite certain of the best way to...
Jan 13, 2011 / Henry J. BaughFeelin’ IFFI and the Films That Now Matter
The Goa Film Festival that was from the 22nd of November to the 2nd of December and I managed to attend the first five days. Unfortunately, I got sick just after the festival and couldn’t compile the...
Jan 12, 2011 / Kamayani SharmaLoose Cannons: Small Expectations
Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti, Ferzan Ozpetek) is an Italian comedy about Tommaso (Riccardo Scamarcio), a young man who returns home planning to announce to his family that he is gay. However, his...
Jan 8, 2011 / Alison FrankRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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