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Zombie Survival 101

[photopress:1041315_79427041.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Here at Picturenose Central, we are in shock. After a furious bidding war, we fell just $6,999,999 short of the $7 million required to publish exclusive pictures of the Pitt/Jolie twins, so instead, we have an amusing picture of a horse. We thank you for your understanding at this difficult time.

So many things, I’m hard-pushed for a witty title…

[photopress:projector_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Today’s news starts with something I found quite surprising. In this Associated Press piece on backstage.com, the late Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker in the upcoming The Dark Knight (2008) is compared (favourably) to one Mr J Nicholson’s turn in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). They even go so far as [...]

King Kong (2005)

[photopress:kong4.gif,thumb,alignleft] A remake to go ape over

Some films should be left alone. Cinematic history is littered with masterpieces whose reputations are unfairly tarnished by the clunkers repackaged for a later generation, remade with little or no regard for the original’s integrity, vision and soul.

The 1976 John Guillermin-updated remake of Merian C. Cooper’s 1933 classic King [...]

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

[photopress:Romeo_Juliet_1996_1200_l.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Hard on Baz’s Bard
It is with great interest that I learned the Australian soap actor-turned director Baz Luhrmann has a new film coming up this year. It’s called Australia, and the early reports indicate it might be good. (Unfortunately, it wasn’t, not really – James). That’s a relief, because since Strictly Ballroom (1992), his movies [...]

What’s new?

[photopress:projector.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Normally, a 65-year-old man touting a bullwhip would be the kind of thing to make me swear off eating cheese before bedtime, but I am of course referring to the latest offering in the incredibly popular Indiana Jones series of movies. James has now seen Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [...]

Death Proof (2007)

[photopress:legs.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Shit and run

It really must have seemed like a great idea at the time. Quentin Tarantino teamed up with Sin City director Robert Rodriguez for a 70s sleaze-fest double bill, Grindhouse, which combines Rodriguez’s zombie-schlock-splatter extravaganza Planet Terror (2007) with Tarantino’s offering, Death Proof, plus several fake 70s-style trailers.

Guess what? In what must be a [...]

Dinner for One (1963)

[photopress:DinnerForOne.jpg,thumb,alignleft] The same procedure…?

I was chatting with a German friend over lunch, and the subject of the Germans’ love of English comedy came up. This in turn led to a discussion of the phenomenon that is Dinner for One. It’s essentially a recording of an 18-minute music hall sketch, performed in English by an English [...]

Bond, Bridges, Bale and, er, MacGuyver...

Sing-along-a-Bond?
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? The bad? OK. Amy (‘Look at me! Look at me!’) Winehouse was reported by the BBC to be involved in the production of the latest Bond outing Quantum of Solace. The good news? A couple of days later, her producer, Mark Ronson, was quoted [...]

Zombies, strippers and suicides

A cheery title for a post, don’t you think? No? Me neither. In the interests of science and cinema, I bring you the occasional thing that is the Picturenose news feature.

First up is the new movie, Jonathan Gershfield’s Three and Out (2008) starring Mackenzie Crook of The Office (UK) fame. In the film, Crook plays [...]

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