The list of winners from this year’s British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards.
The BAFTA award winners for 2010
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 23 February, 2010 to the movies subset
“Batman and Robin” voted the worst movie of recent times
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 5 February, 2010 to the movies subset
It was always going to be hard call to make, but readers of Empire magazine ended up voting 1997’s “Batman and Robin” the number one worst movie they’d seen.
Gaining nearly three times as many votes as the next entry, this was a runaway loser. From the neon design to the overblown script to the [...]
An adaptation too close, the movie that is exactly like the book
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 30 November, 2009 to the movies subset
The film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road” has been described as “very faithful”, and is surely something fans of books that are adapted to film would like to see happen more often.
Some critics however feel that the facsimile like duplication of the McCarthy novel has taken something away from the film:
But [...]
Following Sherlock Holmes movements around London
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 20 November, 2009 to the comment subset
I can’t make up my mind about the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie, the trailers I’ve seen so far suggest a far degree of slapstick. Still it will be interesting to see which parts of London – places that Holmes is known to have visited – feature in the film.
Draw your own conclusions as to which movies these are
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 12 November, 2009 to the movies subset
Guess the title of the movie using a collection of just six sketches as clues… some are more straightforward than others.
The top 100 movies of the last decade
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 11 November, 2009 to the movies subset
The 100 Best Films of the Decade. While I wasn’t surprised by most of the inclusions, the ranking of some films in the list did puzzle me at times… “Knocked Up” higher – if only by one spot – that “The Return of the King”?
Cinématon: ad-lib your three and half minutes of fame
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 to the movies subset
Gerard Courant has spent over 30 years producing a film – titled “Cinématon” – that runs to 150 hours in duration, featuring the contributions of numerous participants who have each been permitted to do whatever they wish to for three and a half minutes.
So, as I sit down facing the camera, I’m not expecting [...]
Charting the interaction of movie characters across franchises
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 6 November, 2009 to the movies subset
Character interaction lines from the Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Jurassic Park movies.
The Australian Film Institute nominations for 2009
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 30 October, 2009 to the movies subset
The nominations for this year’s Australian Film Institute (AFI) awards have been announced, with Balibo by Robert Connolly, and Samson & Delilah by Warwick Thornton, taking out the most individual nominations.
Robert Connolly’s Balibo, about the deaths of six Australian journalists during and immediately after the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975, has received [...]
Internet Movie Database turns 19, pre-dates the internet itself?
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 20 October, 2009 to the movies subset
The very first version of film resource the Internet Movie Database made its debut in 1990, at least a year before the release of the earliest web browsers:
You might wonder how it is possible for IMDb to be 19 since the first web browser wasn’t really available until 1991. Well, on October 17th in 1990 [...]
