Cinema of the United States

Hostage to Hollywood

4 Nov 2012

If ever there's a career to demonstrate the fickle nature of Hollywood then it belongs to Ben Affleck.

10:14AM

Rewind: Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock

30 Sep 2012

Vertigo James Stewart, Kim Novac, Barbara Bel Geddes Director: Alfred Hitchcock It's official: Vertigo is the greatest film of all time - well, according to a critics' poll in British film...

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Brilliant rumination on memory and being human

23 Sep 2012

In the great canon of science fiction, aliens are anthropomorphised in some way or other - from the Alien and E.T. to Yoda and the "greys" of Roswell fame.

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Closing the loophole

16 Sep 2012

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has made the rounds in the world of TV and film. His first major role was a long-haired, wise-cracking teen (well, an extraterrestrial in the body of a teen) in the TV comedy...

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Steven Soderbergh ready for the final few acts of his film directing career

16 Sep 2012

Steven Soderbergh turns 50 next year - meaning the director who began his career in 1989, winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with

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Venice rises to the challenge but prize rules need changing

16 Sep 2012

In the end, Alberto Barbera might have wished for less controversy.

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Opinion

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Alex Lo

Survey exposes racism's shameful face

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Jaded rocker's quest too unfocused

It's named after a Talking Heads track, features a specially staged performance of said song by David Byrne (playing himself), and stars Eve Hewson - daughter of Paul, aka Bono - as fan and...

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Lucky for some - the start of a blockbuster slasher franchise

"There was a novelty in seeing a film that scrappy and that nasty being distributed by a big studio in a mainstream cinema. You were watching a nasty, grimy movie but in plush seats, in kind of...

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Director Wes Anderson revisits the concept of family in latest offering 'Moonrise Kingdom'

When Wes Anderson was growing up in Texas, he came across a pamphlet on the refrigerator in his family's kitchen. It was titled

8:21AM

Studio and theme park plans unveiled

US animation company DreamWorks Animation SKG and its Chinese partners will set up a 20 billion yuan (HK$25.5 billion) theme park in Shanghai and produce Kung Fu Panda 3 in the city by 2016.

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FILM (1996)

The Island of Dr Moreau
Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis
Director: John Frankenheimer

10:31PM

The Bat catalogue

Audiences over the decades clearly haven't been able to get enough of the Caped Crusader. Since (and including) the first Batman film screened in 1966, there have been no less than eight films...

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