LINKS
Here goes nothing; lets start with Spiderman, the story has been covered a bit on Splice in past few weeks and now we have a new director. If movies were fitba then tabloid writers would have a field day with the new mans name.
Sundance Film Festival started on Thursday just passed, and taking its bow there is our blogs namesake Splice starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. Its actually a Canadian film and is mentioned here alongside the other Canuck fare the Utah filmlovers are getting to see over the festival.
I actually didnt know Sundance was this week until i read this preview of what to look out for there in the excellent free paper Eye Weekly as i made my way home on the streetcar so i then went looking for the British perspective to go with the canadian one i read and found it.
In fact the British view is actually a good base to follow the festival all the way through, looks like the blog will be updated regularly.
Last bit of Sundance stuff here is this link to a clip from the new Chris Morris film Four Lions which i actually laughed out loud at but resisted the urge to cut the phrase down to three letters.
Staying on film festival mode, last week I was trying to encourage Red to put Splice about at the Glasgow Film Festival, so far he hasnt told me he has or he hasnt so we still live in hope. If he hasnt yet, maybe this look ahead at the fest will whet his appetite.
Award season is upon us, the Golden Globes have came and went and now the Bafta Nominations are out, still to come are the Oscars and the curtain will come down with the Spliceys, its sure to be a entertaining few months.
The award ceremonys are revelling in the last year of film however there is a season of films on at the TIFF Cinematique for the next few weeks. I still have a few free passes left so have a look at this and tell me what to go see.
And finally, some news to make Big Red smile, Bruce Campbell related you understand.
TRAILERS
Featuring in this weeks trailers is Shutter Island which was supposed to be in last week but I ended up putting Extraordinary Measures in twice. Then here is Legion which is a kind of sci-fi horror type fantasy thing which has been on my TV for weeks now and I think looks cool. After that a quick teaser for Buried which looks interesting and ties into the Sundance stuff in the links as it is being shown there sometime in the next week. And finally MacGruber which is a redband trailer, which i never knew existed, that means there is swearing in it and swearing is funny.
ON RUUD'S TV THIS PAST WEEK
The burning embers of the final episodes of Conan O'Brians tenure as host of The Tonight Show which featured a strange final credit singing of Freebird by Will Ferrell with the Tonight Show band and Conan on guitar and what looked like Beck and Ben Harper also. Very weird. still not sure what the pregnant woman thing was about.
Also
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Persopolis
Finished reading The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard, I have changed my mind on the film, i reckon it could be a good TV series.
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