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Archives for March 2011

Answering the Critic

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Mark Kermode|11:24 AM, Thursday, 31 March 2011

I recently blogged about video piracy and on the subject of how to get people to behave in cinemas these days. Here I go through some of your responses and see what you have to say on these spiky subjects.

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Hammer Has Risen From the Grave

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Mark Kermode|14:46 PM, Friday, 25 March 2011

This week sees the release of Wake Wood - the second film from the new generation Hammer Studios. It's a creepy, quirky and very British horror movie - but what is the future for Hammer ?

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3D or 3 Don't ?

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Mark Kermode|16:50 PM, Tuesday, 22 March 2011

To my horror it was recently announced that Baz Luhrmann would be filming Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby in 3D. In the week that sees Werner Herzog's first foray into the stereoscopic illusion I ask are there some stories that should never ever get the 3D treatment?

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5 live Review: Submarine

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Mark Kermode|12:22 PM, Monday, 21 March 2011

5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Submarine.

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The Cinema Code of Conduct: American Style

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Mark Kermode|11:57 AM, Friday, 18 March 2011

What do you expect when you go to a late night screening of the Farrelly brothers' new comedy Hall Pass in an American multiplex the size of a shopping mall?

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Phoney Piracy

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Mark Kermode|15:34 PM, Tuesday, 15 March 2011

I explode one of the dafter myths of movie piracy and explain why the bold release strategies employed on a handful of recent films like Mum and Dad, On Tour and now Route Irish definitely represent the way forward.

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5 live Review: Fair Game

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Mark Kermode|15:19 PM, Tuesday, 15 March 2011

5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Fair Game.

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Get Carter and Cinematic Scribes

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Mark Kermode|15:51 PM, Friday, 11 March 2011

You came back with a shedload of insightful comments on my recent blogs about Get Carter and writing as a subject for films. I sift through a selection of the best and brightest...

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Strange Bedfellows

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Mark Kermode|14:58 PM, Tuesday, 8 March 2011

The latest Shakespearean epic hits the screens in the form of The Tempest, complete with Helen Mirren as Prospera, 'Blake's Seven' costumes, fiery hounds and ghostly apparitions. It has some distinguished predecessors - but which adaptation of the bard is the best?

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5 live Review: The Adjustment Bureau

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Mark Kermode|11:54 AM, Monday, 7 March 2011

5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews The Adjustment Bureau.

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Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Lunar Nazis

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Mark Kermode|16:59 PM, Friday, 4 March 2011

In a week of cinematic surprises - Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins is now an actual film that actually features the actual voice of Stephen Fry while on the far side of the moon the Iron Sky invasion is about to begin...

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