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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...
`Beowulf & Grendel’
Screening: 4 p.m. Nation: Canada/Iceland/United Kingdom Director: Sturla Gunnarsson Synopsis: Director Sturla Gunnarsson ("Such a Long Journey") brings visual panache and psychological depth - as well as touches of humor - to this tale of retribution and revenge,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Beowulf and Grendel ***
(Sturla Gunnarsson, Canada/Iceland/UK, 2005) Making the most of what was obviously a small budget, this could have been an interesting humanitarian interpretation of the Beowulf legend but for one thing: Sarah Polley. In a movie where we come to accept everyone as...
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...