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This epic chronicle of the seven pilots chosen to become astronauts for Project Mercury is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe (THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES) and directed by visionary filmmaker Philip Kaufman (QUILLS, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING).Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test pilots courageously fought to .. Read more

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  Stuff happens for Glenn

  • 13 May 2008

  Apocalypse Now actor Scott Glenn is to take on the role of former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Oliver Stone's new biopic of Bush the younger, W., according to reports. Digital Spy says the 67-year-old, whose other credits include The Bourne Ultimatum, The Right Stuff and Silence Of The Lambs, will take up the role of Rummy alongside No Country For Old Men star Josh Brolin as Dubya himself. They will be joined by a cast including Fantastic Four star Ioan Gruffudd as Tony Blair, Crash's Read more

  

  The Long and the Short of It: A Brief History of Running Times

  • 19 Oct 2010

  This week, British audiences (at least the lucky ones) will have a choice between seeing Olivier Assayas’ fascinating thriller Carlos in the original 334 minute cut prepared for French TV (shown out of competition in Cannes) or the director’s theatrical version, which still weighs in at a substantial 165 minutes. You can read our review of the full-length version for some more specific info on that, but it got me thinking about the whole question of running time. Is more always... Read more

  

  Space Chimps

  • 29 Jul 2008

  It can be tough living up to illustrious forbears. Ham III (voiced by Hot Rod star Andy Samberg) is the grandson of the first monkey in space. There’s no competing with that, so Ham prefers to be a big fish in a small pond, wowing the spectators with his cannonball act in a traveling circus. Why shoot for the moon when you can be a star? He’s not best pleased when agents from NASA arrive and escort him to Cape Canaveral. And when it becomes clear they mean to sit him in a rocket,... Read more

  

  Shooter

  • 10 Apr 2007

  The best action movie in a while, this tight, focused Mark Wahlberg vehicle puts a canny post-9/11 spin on a Rambo type scenario. Actually, make that post-WMD/Iraq, because the film is steeped in mistrust of the powerful elite who (it suggests) really pull the strings in the US of A. A well thumbed copy of the 9/11 Commission Report has a supporting role in one early scene. 'Yesterday was about honour. Today is about justice,' runs the movie's tagline. Wahlberg is Bob Lee Swagger. The name... Read more

  

  Copying Beethoven

  • 13 Aug 2007

  With few exceptions, films about the great composers have been a rum bunch. Grieg got the egregious Song of Norway. Ken Russell did well by Delius in Song of Summer, okay by Tchaikovsky in The Music Lovers, so-so for Mahler, then perpetrated Lisztomania, with Roger Daltrey as Franz Liszt, Paul Nicholas as Wagner, and Ringo Starr as the Pope. And of course, Tom Hulce played Mozart as a braying adolescent in Amadeus. Stern, deaf old Beethoven has mostly been given a wide berth by filmmakers,... Read more

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    This epic chronicle of the seven pilots chosen to become astronauts for Project Mercury is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe (THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES) and directed by visionary filmmaker Philip Kaufman (QUILLS, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING).
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