May 20
Synecdoche, New York is made of the stuff that even film bloggers don’t understand (including us). It is a decidedly ‘multiple viewings needed’ film about a playwright, Caden Cotard, injecting his existential fears about death and loneliness into an increasingly large-scale autobiographical play, within which the same character puts on the same play, within which……
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May 18
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Vaughn and Ferrell in Daddy’s Home
Comedy stars Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell are reuniting to star in a film entitled ‘Daddy’s Home’. While very little is known about the film at this point, it is believed that Ferrell will …
May 11
LMS brings you the biggest movie industry news from the past week, in brief.
Gravity
Space movie lovers will be highly anticipating this new film from Alfonso Cuarón, in which astronauts George Clooney and Sandra Bullock (I know, a bit of a stretch) are left drifting around in space with chunks of their exploded …
May 09
May 06
With many people claiming that Skyfall is “the best James Bond film since Goldfinger“, I thought I’d revisit the Sean Connery classic this week and examine its musical merits. There are plenty.
With Goldfinger, the third in the series, John Barry, king of the Bond score, gave us not only the best song but the best (and …
May 04
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Fassbender is Macbeth
Michael Fassbender, who is starring alongside Brad Pitt for the upcoming film Twelve Years a Slave, is set to be one of Shakespeare’s most famous characters: Macbeth. The new film, adapted by Todd Louiso and Jacob Koskoff …
May 02
Apr 27
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Guys & Dolls Remake?
Fox are looking into rebooting the hit musical with its Sinatra/Brano duo replaced by the much more alive Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Nothing is set in stone but, in an era when the centuries-old Les …
