Stand For Peace
Stand For Peace
This over-the-top extravaganza, with its cast of thousands, goes on way, way, way, way too long, and was lambasted in the press in 1963. But fans loved it. And they still do. 10 May 2023 | James Porteous | Clipper…
The film and TV writer answers your questions on advising Boris Johnson, dining with Alan Partridge and more 24 February 2022 | Rich Pelley | The Guardian | With additional material The film and TV writer answers your questions on…
A yearly tradition, TCM Remembers celebrates the life and work of bright lights that will never fade. 22 December 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media #TCMRemembers the performers, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year. Their art will always…
Photo: Gene Hackman in The French Connection. Photograph: Allstar/20thCentury Fox/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar 09 October 2021 | Scott Tobias | The Guardian The advantage of shooting on location is that fiction films can have the texture of a documentary, preserving forever a specific…
His many roles included the hit TV series ‘Room 222,’ the film ‘The Hustler’ with Paul Newman and as the father in ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding.’ Photo: Actor Michael Constantine 08 September 2021 | Margalit Fox | New York…
Judi Dench, Ciarán Hinds, Caitríona Balfe, and Jamie Dornan star in Kenneth Branagh’s B&W coming-of-age tale set amid the tumult of late-1960s Northern Ireland. Photo: Focus Features 03 September 2021 | Ryan Lattanzio | IndieWire Between “Artemis Fowl” and the…
Photo: ANTHONY KWAN/GETTY IMAGES The proposed Film Censorship Ordinance gives the city’s censors wider powers and increases the maximum jail sentence to three years for illegal screenings. 24 August 2021 | Abid Rahman | Hollywood Reporter Hong Kong, once the…
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: 731; PHOTO: PARAMOUNT PICTURES With viewers watching to ad-free streamers, ad agencies hope to perpetuate the silly fiction that ‘product placement’ will drive ‘consumers’ clamouring to buy that can of Coke. 21 July 2021 | Kelly Gilblom |…
Photo: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Sergio Leone is a classic example of dubbed post-war European film. Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy As an English-speaker in Europe I must say I was surprised (and disappointed) to discover that, in some…
Photo: The French Connection II (1975) No, you might be immediately familiar with the name. But you have probably heard of Grand Prix, French Connection II, Ronin… 21 June 2021 | Raphael Costa | Taste of Cinema What is the…
