Tag Archives: Barack Obama

In & Out

Couch Potato Pickings On Film4 tonight at 7.15pm I had this movie plucked for my pickings back in November during the week of the American election – it was on then. With this week marking the historical moment that the … Continue reading

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News Muse – Marvelous headlines

Things haven’t been easy for Warner Bros lately. Their much anticipated Marvel feature film Watchmen has been caught up for months in a copyright law suit against Fox, who have been trying to become co-distributors. For a while it looked … Continue reading

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The Best view | Stone goes soft: a lenient portrait of George ‘Dubya’ Bush in W.

As America awakes this week from the nightmare of the past eight years and the world exults in the historic election of Barack Obama, Oliver Stone delivers his biopic of the man Obama is replacing, the man who has a … Continue reading

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News Muse – America: two steps forward, three steps back

Quantum of Solace smashed UK box office records on its opening night last Friday, taking £4.9million in ticket sales and knocking Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire off the top spot with its £4million in 2005. Quantum even beat … Continue reading

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