Tag Archives: Oliver Stone

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – Gordon ‘Greed is good’ Gekko is back. But is he now a dinosaur?

Posted on 8 October 2010 by Jason Best

Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie Wall Street wasn’t a great movie but it was uncannily timely. Appearing in cinemas a mere two months after Black Monday precipitated the decade’s financial crash, it boasted an era-defining performance from Michael Douglas as monstrous … Continue reading →

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When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors – Does Jim Morrison light your fire?

Posted on 7 July 2010 by Jason Best

“There are no rules at a rock concert,” declared Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, 60s counter culture icon and the subject of Tom DiCillo’s admiring film documentary When You’re Strange. Unfortunately, the US authorities didn’t agree with Morrison. … Continue reading →

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Cannes Film Festival opens tonight!

Posted on 12 May 2010 by heidi

Ten days of Gallic glitz and glamour opens tonight on the French Riviera with Russell Crowe letting the side down a bit in the glamour stakes as a decidedly grungy Robin Hood. Ridley Scott’s new take on the old Sherwood … Continue reading →

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News Hound | 9 September 2009

Posted on 9 September 2009 by Adele Craciun

Movie Talk sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news – because we love to play fetch… Kim Cattrall has accidentally leaked some Sex and the City 2 plot secrets. SPOILER WARNING!  Sally … Continue reading →

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News Muse – From fairy to very very scary

Posted on 5 June 2009 by Adele Craciun

The 2009 MTV Movie Awards last Sunday was a special event for Twilight fans as the movie scooped up almost all the popcorn buckets, including the one for Best Movie, and it was the first chance to watch the trailer … Continue reading →

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News Hound | 29 April 2009

Posted on 29 April 2009 by Adele Craciun

Movie Talk sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news – because we like to stick our noses into it… Gavin Hood, director of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, has revealed that the blockbuster movie … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | W.

Posted on 15 March 2009 by Jason Best

  Oliver Stone’s satirical biopic of George W. Bush is a surprisingly compassionate, almost sympathetic portrait of the 43rd president of the United States. Brilliantly impersonated by Josh Brolin, Bush is shown in W. at three stages of his life: … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 7 November 2008 by Jason Best

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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52nd Times BFI London Film Festival – first look at this year’s lineup

Posted on 10 September 2008 by Jason Best

I’ve just returned hotfoot from the press launch of this year’s Times BFI London Film Festival, clutching a copy of the hefty programme. It’s over a hundred pages, so it will take me a while to get to grips with … Continue reading →

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