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Anklestache Productions Present...1 comment

stiggers wrote 4 months ago: I made some films recently… well principal photography (shut it) for all of them was done in J … more →

Tags: america, Birth, Croditars, Dating, Dreams, Epic Victories, Jude, Music, Poetry

My review of Slumdog Millionaire

stiggers wrote 1 year ago: NO STARS OUT OF FIVE STARS I am gutted. I thought yes we can but now I see no, no you cant. Not if y … more →

Towelhead: Innocence Distorted

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: Racism comes a knockin'! There are so many places I wish to begin with this review, which as I w … more →

Tags: Current Movies and reviews, film, TowelHead, racism, rape, alan ball, Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Toni Collette

The Cognitive Dissonance of Batman's Dilemma or Why did it end that way? **Major Spoiler's Included**11 comments

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: What to be or what not to be...a split identity. Below is a comment/question from a reader about Bat … more →

Tags: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Spoilers, Christopher Nolan, Harvey Dent, Two-Face, Gary Oldman, maggie gyllenhall, Michael Caine

"Wanted", "Fight Club"...cinema of the depressed

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: Like the Narrator in "Fight Club", corporate shenanigans weigh down on our hero. Jim Emers … more →

Tags: Jim Emerson's Scanners, Wanted, fight club, Depression

Sex comedy film grant criticised

Kellan wrote 1 year ago: Film bosses have been criticised for handing nearly £1m of lottery cash to a controversial com … more →

Tags: film noir, comedy films, Future of Online Video, critics, Comedians, David Cross, John Di Maggio, David X. Cohen, Other Videos

"I Live in Fear" of "The Happening": The Art of Boldness, Kurosawa, and Shyamalan2 comments

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: It would be easy to point out Akira Kurosawa’s great films like Rashomon or Seven Samurai as e … more →

Tags: Movies, film, Cinema, David Cronenberg, Japanese cinema, Jim Emerson's Scanners, eli roth, The Happening, M. Knight Shyamalan

"The Happening": Meaning in the Mess9 comments

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: My friend would argue that there is no meaning in The Happening. But a lot of people are stumbling o … more →

Tags: Current Movies and reviews, Movies, film, Cinema, The Happening, M. Knight Shyamalan, Mark Whalberg, Zooey Deshanel

Trying to find meaning in "The Happening"15 comments

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: Why write so much about a movie that probably doesn’t deserve it, because lessons can be learn … more →

Tags: Current Movies and reviews, Movies, film, Cinema, The Happening, M. Knight Shyamalan, Mark Whalberg, Zooey Deshanel, Jim Emerson

Everybody's Marketing! Film and Theatre.

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: Not only does being Artistic Director of a theatre company (Theatre Unleashed) keep me too busy to m … more →

Tags: The Theatre, Marketing, Trailers, Theatre Unleashed, Live Performance, film marketing, theatre marketing, The Happening, M. Knight Shyamalan

Robert Redford - the champion of indie film

Kellan wrote 1 year ago: In a HardTalk Extra interview screened on 28 January, Tom Brook talks to Robert Redford about his re … more →

Tags: film noir, Video, comedy films, Entertainment, Future of Online Video, Random, film, Comedy, Indie Film

Summer Trailers and their Marketing Plans - No more surprises for Batman.

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: ***Normally an image would be here, but so as not to spoil anything, I have refrained from showing t … more →

Tags: Trailers, Marketing, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, The Joker, The Dark Knight, Batman, Christopher Nolan, warner brothers

Spiritual Film Festival At Tel Aviv Cinemateque This Week3 comments

isragirl wrote 1 year ago: Isragirl Presents : Grandmother Drum: Awkening the Global Drum, Film by Soruj Olzwarth © Tourists vi … more →

Tags: israel culture, Tel Aviv, culture in Tel Aviv, women travelling alone, Travel Israel, Spiritual Bidet, berlin film festival, Silent Film, Film History

New Line Cinema vs. Semi-Pro

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: So New Line Cinema fired a bunch of people? The last I heard of any of this was a few weeks ago and … more →

Tags: Film-Trailers, New Line Cinema, Semi Pro, Will Ferrell

"There Will Be Blood": Jack Torrence is "Shining" Through9 comments

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: While “There Will Be Blood” hasn’t been a box office stud it’s being called … more →

Tags: awards season, Cinema, film, Movies, drainage, here's johnny!, I drink your milkshake, say hello to my little friend, You talkin' to me?

Reviewers Destroy the Fun of Cloverfield, a Critical Response1 comment

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: There’s always a lot of talk over at Jim Emmerson’s: Scanners about the critic’s p … more →

Tags: Movies, film, Cinema, CloverField, Roger Ebert, critics

Roger Ebert Undermines Cloverfield's Campaign3 comments

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: After months of witnessing one of the best ad campaigns for a movie since The Blair Witch Project I … more →

Tags: Movies, film, Cinema, CloverField, Roger Ebert, Spoilers, critics

"Atonement": She Gives Anton Chigurh a Run for the Money, A Critical Continuation2 comments

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: If you wish to read my review of Atonement. Go here. *Major Plot Spoilers Ahead; Read With Caution. … more →

Tags: Movies, film, Cinema, Atonement, James McAvoy, Joe Wright, Golden Globes, Oscar, SAG Awards

Anton Chigurh - Talk of the Town2 comments

Phillip wrote 1 year ago: Jim Emerson writes at his blog Scanners… (A comment by Phillip Kelly in reply to an earlier po … more →

Tags: Movies, film, Cinema, Oscar Watch, No Country for Old Men, The Coen brothers, Javier Bardem, josh brolin, Tommy Lee Jones


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