Last week, scabrous TV satire The Thick of It was elevated to the silver screen as In the Loop, while this week Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck get to take on movie versions of the roles defined on the small screen by John Simm and David Morrissey in Paul Abbbot's justly feted TV series State of Play. But how often does a TV Show make a great movie?
And has a TV show ever generated a greater movie version of itself? Well, as a matter of fact, yes it has...
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Mark finds little to laugh at in Jody Hill's lame comedy flick.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine is one side of the coin, Brit indie horrorfest Mum and Dad another, and Monsters versus Aliens is yet another (because it's a 3d coin). But who is really to blame for online movie piracy? Allow me to explain...
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In the virtual verbal post bag today, Christopher Lee's position on piranhas, the Buster Keaton Charlie Chaplin debate resolved, more 3D extortion by Monsters versus Aliens, and the small matter of David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future and my choice of blog locations...
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Encounters at the End of the World were followed by a reassuringly icy blast of weltschmertz at the National Film Theatre.
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Before he became Religulous, Bill Maher offered up a satire to match the wars of Lillliput and Blefuscu.
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The real story behind the recent 3D bonanza.
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That's right, I'm on holiday again.
*This video includes film reviews and clips from feature
film releases Let the Right One In by Tomas Alfredson and In The Loop by
Armando Iannucci.
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I only just held my nerve for Martyrs while some of you were all but driven under the exit lamps by different cinematic tortures...
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Richard Curtis' nostalgic take on pirate radio in the 1960s is reviewed by Mark Kermode and Fiona Phillips.
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Why don't some films get the critical previews they deserve?
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