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Your story or your life? It’s an interesting phenomenon – cinema, down the years, has by and large served the Fourth Estate very well. Choice examples such as Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951), All the President’s Men (1976) by Alan J. Pakula, and Michael Mann’s The Insider (1999) are very much ancestors to Kevin [...] [photopress:Yuma.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Jail time In 1957, audiences were introduced to poor rancher Dan Evans (then played by Van Heflin) and the number-one outlaw of the land, Ben Wade (Glenn Ford), in Delmer Daves’ original. Evans has to feed his family, but the poor harvest and weather aren’t doing him any favours – and, as Wade has been [...] [photopress:BodyofLies.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Not-so-great Scott As a director, Ridley Scott seems increasingly content merely to live up to some of his undeniable talent – the visionary who gave the world Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), and, more recently, Kingdom of Heaven (2005), has also been seemingly happy offering also-rans such as Hannibal (2001) and, God save us [...] [photopress:batman1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] News reaches me that Sienna Miller is to star as Maid Marian in the upcoming re-jig of the Robin Hood story. Huh? A Robin Hood remake, surely not? Speaking to the BBC she gushed: “It’s happening. I just found out. It’s the most exciting news in the world.” She has obviously never won a Nobel [...] |
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