Blog posts by year and monthMarch 2011
Posts (11)
Answering the Critic
I recently blogged about video piracy and on the subject of how to get people to behave in cinemas these days. Here I go through some of your responses and see what you have to say on these spiky subjects.
Hammer Has Risen From the Grave
This week sees the release of Wake Wood - the second film from the new generation Hammer Studios. It's a creepy, quirky and very British horror movie - but what is the future for Hammer ?
3D or 3 Don't ?
To my horror it was recently announced that Baz Luhrmann would be filming Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby in 3D. In the week that sees Werner Herzog's first foray into the stereoscopic illusion I ask are there some stories that should never ever get the 3D treatment?
5 live Review: Submarine
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Submarine. Go to Mark on 5 live for more reviews and film debate. You can hear Mark talk about the latest films on Kermode & Mayo's Film Review on 成人论坛 Radio 5 live every Friday 2pm-4pm. The programme is also available a...
The Cinema Code of Conduct: American Style
What do you expect when you go to a late night screening of the Farrelly brothers' new comedy Hall Pass in an American multiplex the size of a shopping mall?
Phoney Piracy
I explode one of the dafter myths of movie piracy and explain why the bold release strategies employed on a handful of recent films like Mum and Dad, On Tour and now Route Irish definitely represent the way forward.
5 live Review: Fair Game
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Fair Game. Go to Mark on 5 live for more reviews and film debate. You can hear Mark talk about the latest films on Kermode & Mayo's Film Review on 成人论坛 Radio 5 live every Friday 2pm-4pm. The programme is also available as a podcast.
Get Carter and Cinematic Scribes
You came back with a shedload of insightful comments on my recent blogs about Get Carter and writing as a subject for films. I sift through a selection of the best and brightest...
Strange Bedfellows
The latest Shakespearean epic hits the screens in the form of The Tempest, complete with Helen Mirren as Prospera, 'Blake's Seven' costumes, fiery hounds and ghostly apparitions. It has some distinguished predecessors - but which adaptation of the bard is the best?
5 live Review: The Adjustment Bureau
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews The Adjustment Bureau. Go to Mark on 5 live for more reviews and film debate. You can hear Mark talk about the latest films on Kermode & Mayo's Film Review on 成人论坛 Radio 5 live every Friday 2pm-4pm. The programme is also...