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Kinoteka – The 9th Polish Film Festival

March 23, 2011 By Ian Gilchrist Leave a Comment

As stated in the description of the new book ‘Polish Cinema Now!’, published to coincide with the 9th annual edition of the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, Polish cinema of the past twenty years, made without state control of production after the fall of communism, is paradoxically much less well known than their cinema of the earlier [...]

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Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf to Play Bootleggers in John Hillcoat’s Next Feature

December 9, 2010 By Adam Lowes Leave a Comment

Tom Hardy continues his ascension up the Hollywood ladder with news coming in that he’ll be teaming up with another young star (Transformers man Shia LaBeouf) for John Hillcoat’s next feature. According to the LA Times, the two are set to star in the director’s follow up to The Road – a period thriller called [...]

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Director Stephen Norrington off The Crow Reboot?

October 25, 2010 By Adam Lowes Leave a Comment

We brought you news a couple of days back that Mark Wahlberg was being mentioned as a possible lead for the reboot of the 1994 gothic comic book revenge tale, The Crow. Now news has come through from Comingsoon.net that director Stephen Norrington is no longer attached to the project, and his departure is being [...]

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Mark Wahlberg as The Crow?

October 20, 2010 By Adam Lowes Leave a Comment

In what seems like a really odd piece of potential casting, Bloody Disgusting has news that Mark Wahlberg has been offered the lead role in a new version of The Crow. The 1994 original starred the late Brandon Lee in the tale of a musician who (alongside his fiancée) is brutally murdered, only to return [...]

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Edinburgh Film Festival – Round of Days 8 & 9

June 25, 2010 By Nicola Balkind Leave a Comment

Day 8 Wednesday was a day of transitions – first-week guests left and second-week guests had not yet arrived, and the Filmhouse was like a ghost town as everyone took off to watch the World Cup. Feeling listless after transcribing interviews for hours (lots to come, keep an eye out!), I caught the 5pm screening [...]

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BFI LFF Review: The Road

January 5, 2009 By Jon Lyus 6 Comments

The Road defeated me. It crushed and destroyed me. It broke my heart in the first fifteen minutes and spent the next hour and a half trampling it through the dead and dusty ground. It is a haunting and poetic work, soulful and subtle in its tone and the dark, elegiac cadences. Director John Hillcoat [...]