Jack Yan on Vox

Quantum of Solace trailer released

2008-07-01T10:35:13Z

This is looking very, very good. Then again, fast editing made the Pierce Brosnan Bonds look good, too. But I think Daniel Craig will pull this off very well.

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Ooh, You Are Awful: Mandy on ﬁlm

2008-06-08T05:30:37Z

I wasn’t a huge fan of Dick Emery but I have £9 left over from an Amazon UK coupon and have been considering buying his 1972 film, Ooh, You Are Awful (a.k.a. Get Charlie Tully). It is a trivial, film-buff interest: the movie formed the basis of th...

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Chinese-made in New Zealand

2008-06-02T09:11:41Z

Before The Lord of the Rings, before Bad Taste even, Hong Kong film-makers on the crew of 最佳拍檔千里救差婆 (Aces Go Places IV) came to New Zealand to film their action–comedy. Watch as we go all from New Plymouth to Auckland to Wellington: by the mir...

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Goodbye, Harvey Korman

2008-05-30T12:50:09Z

Another great actor passes on: Harvey Korman from The Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles and History of the World Part One. (He regarded these as his best credits.) ‘Korman reportedly suffered complications related to the rupture of an abdominal ...

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Entertainment QotW: movie music

2008-05-23T03:19:49Z

Share a scene from a movie that uses music perfectly. Submitted by nohablo. This is a great scene for movie music, but the movie itself was Sir Lew Grade’s star-studded mega-turkey of 1980, Raise the Titanic. I do not like this movie but this fol...

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Capt Kirk gets off a speeding ticket

2008-05-11T00:14:58Z

Just as I finished writing about Philip Glenister getting his driver off a ticket by acting as Gene Hunt, I surfed over to an article about Canadian actor William Shatner linked from the Daily Mail page I cited earlier: http://www.dailymail.co.uk...

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Gandhi II (not)

2008-05-10T13:20:45Z

I saw this movie, Sexy Beast, years ago and again last year when staying with my friends Amanda and Paul in Christchurch. It stars Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley. If you are used to Ben Kingsley playing rather dignified roles, this will be a surpri...

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Marketing Arabesque

2008-05-07T06:30:05Z

The trailer to one of my favourite films—but it’s very 1960s. A modern audience won’t exactly get excited over this. That’s ironic though: if you see the film, there are plenty of scenes which could be edited in a modern fashion to create a very ...

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Top 10 ﬁlms—in constant dollars

2008-05-06T04:26:55Z

I was at Charlie’s Vox blog where he lists the top opening weekend grosses of Hollywood films but I wondered how it might look in constant 2008 dollars. I didn’t find that on Google, but one blogger did work out the top 10 films based on reven...

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It’s reached the Olympics—Edison Chen scandal fallout continues

2008-02-26T11:24:32Z

If you thought the story of Amir Massoud Tofangsazan was embarrassing, what if something similar happened to a celebrity? Over the last few weeks, the Edison Chen scandal has rocked Hong Kong and even affected the Beijing Olympics. Chen, a ...

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