Dracula has risen from the dead. Again. Cinema's most famous orthodontically-challenged character gets another bite at the cherry with the release of 'Dracula 2001'. This time round, the filmmakers get round the problem of having a pasty vampire by casting a Scotsman,...
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Gerard gets his fangs at the ready
Dracula 2001 is a modern-day interpretation of the myth, repackaging the story for a young audience. I play Count Dracula, who has been interred for 100 years until thieves steal his coffin from a London vault. He is unleashed in New Orleans where he returns to his...
Beowulf needs a U.S. distributor
Where to start with such an epic adventure? I almost hesitate to even attempt a recap of the tale, but I’ll go for it. If you’ve ever taken an English class in your collegiate life, then you’ve studied the epic tale of “Beowulf.” Hopefully you paid attention; if you...
Ewan gets his kilt out for Burns Night
WHISKY, haggis and women were in plentiful supply at the most glamorous Burns Night held in the capital. Ewan McGregror was the star turn at the party at the St Martin's Lane Hotel, which raised funds for CLIC Sargent and The Children's Hospice Association Scotland....
Past Lives/Current Films: Palm Springs Has Banner Year and Sunshine, Too
"This is the most interesting gathering I've been to in 5000 years," Shirley MacLaine quipped at the 2006 Awards Gala where she garnered a Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to her by pal Kathy Bates, who noted they were in four flop films together. One could...
Obscure film deserves an audience
This independent foreign film explores a family's problems. You've got to love it when you discover a video you've never heard of before, the one just waiting to be given a chance to tug at your heart. That's what happened with "Dear Frankie," an online rental my wife...
Gerard Butler watch: “I’M BEOWULF!”
Oh dear lord. The BEOWULF & GRENDEL trailer is up -- not to be confused with just BEOWULF, which is the Zemeckis/Gaiman production. But this version stars dear, dear Gerard Butler, who reminds us that long before there was Batman...there was BEOWULF! With a...
The Tarts are here!!
A few more words on BEOWULF AND GRENDEL. I've gotten quite a few emails concerning my remarks about the movie. According to one of these emails, my blog "created a stir on GerardButler.net" (Butler being the lead actor in the film), and I figured public forum would be...
BEOWULF director is quite the ladies man
Ok, I'm going to come clean and admit that I don't think I ever read the epic poem of BEOWULF AND GRENDEL in high school. What most likely happened is that I picked up the Cliff Notes version and screeched by on the test. I sincerely regret that now after seeing the...
Icelanders invade Goteborg
Viking drama 'Beowulf' to open premier Scandi event STOCKHOLM -- Sturla Gunnarsson's Viking drama "Beowulf & Grendel," starring Gerard Butler, will open the Goteborg Film Festival, part of an unusually strong presence by Icelandic directors at the premier showcase...
Ex-postie’s red letter year
A SCOT who gave up his job as a postman to chase his Hollywood dream is being tipped as the movie star of 2006. Tony Curran, 37, is lined up to appear in a series of blockbusters. Last year the Glaswegian, whose film credits include Gladiator and The League Of...
My Favorite Films of 2005
I’ll always remember 2005 as the year I finally got to see The Producers. Being the world’s most avid movie musical fan, I became excited the moment I heard about plans to bring the Tony-winning play to the big screen. And I was not disappointed. How often do viewers...
Critics’ Choice: Top Movies of 2005
What a less-than-memorable year in film it has been! But Crosswalk.com's movie critics have managed to find something good to say about what has hit the silver screen in the past 12 months. Find out which films they thought deserved a ticket in 2005. ... BATMAN BEGINS...
Sandro’s Movie Crackers
Our Hollywood correspondent Sandro Monetti has seen more than a hundred films this year in the service of Sky Showbiz and here he ranks them all in order. So, what gets his vote? Outrageous comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin comes out on top, ahead of British fatherless...
‘Dear Andrea, your film is one of year’s best’
A GREENOCK writer says she is delighted an American critic has rated her movie his favourite of 2005. Andrea Gibb, who penned the script for Dear Frankie, said she was flattered that David Germain, a writer for the Associated Press agency, had backed the movie....
Monster’s Ball
One more way in which life is like high school, only with money: Eventually, we all will have to contend with "Beowulf." Galumphing out of the Dark Ages toward a cineplex near you is the tale of the Geat prince's bloody intervention in the affairs of the Danish state....
World films link Jakarta to Cannes
Every May, the biggest film festival in the world, Festival de Cannes, opens to offer great films, international stars and glamour. In the past two years, the festival has premiered what have come to be remembered as some of the world's great, if not best,...
US critic names Scots film ‘movie of the year’
It is a low-budget Scottish film about a deaf boy from the west coast of Scotland, shot on a shoestring and given a critical mauling from Britain's top film writers. But a year after it was released in the UK, Dear Frankie has been named as the film of the year by one...
17th ANNUAL PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FILM LINE-UP
Festival to Open with New Line Cinema The New World Palm Springs, CA (December 14, 2005) – The 17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival has announced its roster of 232 films, culled from more than 70 countries for the 2006 Festival. The selection of films...
I love karaoke so don’t stop me now
Nothing beats the thrill of singing at the Shanghai Shuffle, writes the actress. When people see me on television or acting on film with Samantha Morton in Morvern Callar, they ask why I still sing karaoke three nights a week at the Shanghai Shuffle on Glasgow's Bath...
AP Film Critics’ Top 10 Lists
As film critics, we had a problem this year. There were too many great movies to choose from and only 10 spots on our best-of lists. After much soul-searching and paring, here's what we came up with - the absolute best of the best. The top 10 films of 2005, according...
Sharp Shooter
Alan Sharp, the man who wrote the scripts for Rob Roy, the recently rereleased The Hired Hand and a new film about Scotland's national bard, Rabbie Burns, calls his work "pastiche". Brian Pendreigh finds that others are not so dismissive. Peter Fonda turned Hollywood...
Movie Q&A: Inspiring mystery singer named
Q: I saw a preview on a rented movie for a film about a mother who tells her son his father is at sea on a certain boat and writes a letter to him from the supposed father. When this boat is supposed to come home she has to come up with a father, so she hires one. I...
Beowulf mania: new films, opera, musical breath life into ancient poem
TORONTO (CP) - Move over Troy. Bye-bye Greek heroes. You've had your turn Frodo. Make way for the blood-soaked medieval adventure of Beowulf and Grendel. With at least two major feature films, an opera and an off-Broadway play, the epic poem Beowulf - about a warrior...
Taming the Beowulf giant
Filming the epic in Iceland was a physical challenge. Director Sturla Gunnarsson and actress Sarah Polley talk to Katherine Monk. 'Right now, I've got a big knot in my stomach," says Sturla Gunnarsson, looking just a little ashen around the mouth. "The film just came...