Tag Archives: Ang Lee

DVD review | Life of Pi – Beauty and the Beast: Ang Lee’s dazzling fable of boy adrift with hungry tiger

Putting Yann Martel’s bestselling 2001 novel Life of Pi on screen seemed an impossible task, but it’s one that director Ang Lee pulls off spectacularly with this awesome adventure tale of shipwreck and survival. The story’s resilient young hero, Pi … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Les Misérables Dreamed a dream… Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman sing for their supper in this feature-length reworking of the popular stage musical, based on Victor Hugo’s classic story. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Les Misérables Dreamed a dream… Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman sing for their supper in this feature-length reworking of the popular stage musical, based on Victor Hugo’s classic story. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Les Misérables Dreamed a dream… Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman sing for their supper in this feature-length reworking of the popular stage musical, based on Victor Hugo’s classic story. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Amazing adventure… Peter Jackson journeys back to Middle Earth to helm this big-budget adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic tale about the extraordinary quest of an unassuming hobbit, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman). If you can see … Continue reading

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Name That Chest: She’s tough, she’s smart, she’s sexy and she’s one of three

So who is the actress in the fur jacket with the masterly martial arts moves? And what on earth is the film? Last week’s chest was green. Did you guess the film correctly? All will be revealed here. Discuss these … Continue reading

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Lymelife – Ticked off: A tragi-comedy set in 1970s suburbia

What Ang Lee did for early 1970s Connecticut with his tragic-comic 1997 film The Ice Storm, Derick Martini attempts for late 1970s Long Island with his debut film, the similarly tragic-comic Lymelife. The parallels between the two movies are striking. … Continue reading

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Why do I have mixed feelings about this Film Festival?

Calling all movie-loving Londoners! Are you going to the exciting film festival that’s opening on the South Bank today? Taking place at the BFI Southbank, this colourful movie gala, apparently the UK’s third largest film festival, will be showcasing hundreds … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Crash: Did it deserve that Best Picture Oscar?

Showing on Film 4 tonight at 9pm I you visited Movie Talk on Saturday then you’ll already know that I wasn’t happy back in 2006 that tonight’s film won the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards. Now, this is … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Brokeback Mountain: Why didn’t it win that Best Picture Oscar?

The other day I told a film critic friend of mine that I’d decided to do a post about Brokeback Mountain because it was going to be showing on TV within two days of Crash? (Come back on Monday for … Continue reading

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