Josh Lucas (The Lincoln Lawyer), Molly Parker (Deadwood), Callum Keith Rennie (Battlestar Galactica) and Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers) are a brilliant cast for any TV show. What a pity the show itself sounds so uninspired. A sequel to the John Grisham novel and the Tom Cruise-starring film of the same name:
The Firm continues the story of ( Read more... )

Extended promo for The Killer Inside Me, adapted from the Jim Thompson crime novel, and directed by Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart, 9 Songs). Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Simon Baker, Kate Hudson, Ned Beatty, Bill Pullman, and Elias Koteas star in the film ( Read more... )

*clutches her brand new Deadwood season 3 box set*

Life is looking good. Well... Gale-force winds and political economy exam tomorrow (and the fact that Dae is going to all those films at the Sydney Film Festival without me) aside, life is looking pretty good.

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If I don't update with links and news in the next week and a half, it's because I'm having my end of semester exams and I'm too busy to compile a post. You can still read up on my continually updated links of interest however, if you go to my Quick Blinks tag at BlinkList.

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New casting and film projects


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ANGELINA JOLIE IN A MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM FILM! Somebody hold me whilst I faint from excitement:

Jolie's next film (also her first film after giving birth) will be A Mighty Heart, adapted by Laurence Coriat and Michael Winterbottom (The Road to Guantanamo, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) from the memoir of Mariane Pearl about the kidnapping ( Read more... )

Bits:

so_spiffed, you're so chummy with the red-white-black colour scheme. Check out this music video for The Knife's "We Share Our Mother's Health". It's pretty cool.

Twitch has links to gorgeous B+W stills from Luc Besson's Angel-A.

Emanuel Levy calls Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow "arguably...the only truly iconic screen character to have yet come out of ( Read more... )

so_spiffed has posted a lot of stunning screencaps from John Hillcoat's The Proposition. It got me thinking about this enamourment of unconventional westerns, culminating in Firefly, the most unconventional western of all. Where it all started for me was a 2002 film by one of my favourite directors, Michael Winterbottom, called The Claim. If you're a Milla ( Read more... )

Murder in Samarkand

I adore director Michael Winterbottom. I love that he makes wonderful comedy/dramas like Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story and also haunting and political pseudo-documentary films like In This World and Welcome to Sarajevo. Winterbottom films are in love with infectious music (9 Songs); and with the desert places, ( Read more... )

• Alatriste
  Spanish novelist Arturo Perez-Reverte's beautiful and strange "The Club Dumas" was turned into a ghastly film (The Ninth Gate) by Roman Polanski. Maybe the Spanish can get it right though, in their adaptation of another of his books, Alatriste. Set in 17th century Spain, and staring Viggo Mortensen as soldier-turned-mercenary Captain ( Read more... )