I have seen Black Swan and I have to say that I found it...boring? Yes, boring. And predictable, and overwrought. The character of Nina was intolerable, the kind of person I wouldn't be able to spend one minute in the company of in real life. The minute it was over, I dug out my DVD of Robert Altman's The Company, to be transported into a movie ( Read more... )

I was in hospital last night with a stomach infection, so the trip to Yunnan has been delayed a day. Hence, a bit of time on my hands in which to do this post.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception) is being rumoured as The Riddler in Batman 3. Given Christopher Nolan's habit of working with the same actors repeatedly (Michael Caine, Christian Bale, Ken ( Read more... )

Winona Ryder (<3), Vincent Cassel (<333) and Barbara Hershey have joined the cast of Darren Daronofsky's supernatural thriller Black Swan, which stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as rival dancers at a ballet company, one of whom might be an apparition. (/Film) [imdb]

Gwyneth Paltrow will play Nicole Kidman's wife in The Danish Girl, which is ( Read more... )

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