Blog posts by year and monthNovember 2009
Posts (14)
5 live review: Paranormal Activity
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Paranormal Activity. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
Me and Me and Orson Welles
With Zac Efron as the titular "Me", this beautifully nuanced, studied, and hugely rewarding take on Orson Welles's game changing production of Julius Caeser at New York's Mercury Theatre in 1937 is a must see: but is it really, as one critic said, "The Feel Good Film of the Year"? And what does that phrase even mean? Man alive!
The Serious Coens
They've worked with some of the biggest stars on the planet including Brad Pitt and George Clooney. They've earned Academy approval for their stunning visualisation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. As they release their new movie, A Serious Man, is it now fair to say that the brother...
5 live review: New Moon
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews the Twilight Saga: New Moon. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
Farewell Edward Woodward
Having met the man and shared a few memorable moments with him, I thought it might be appropriate to share some memories of the late, great Edward Woodward, the widely loved star of that extraordinary 1970s British horror masterpiece, The Wicker Man.
Screening Room: Animation & Aardman
Is animation the future and if so does that mean all of it? How about stop motion and the hand-drawn variety? Here are a couple of thoughts that didn't make it into this week's Culture Show Screening Room Animation Special and, as always, let me and Simon Mayo know what you think using the facil...
Call of Civic Duty 2
Attacked in the House of Commons and defended in print (and in Twitter) by Charlie Brooker, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the latest videogame to be declared a desperate hazard to the minds of the young and impressionable, but to me the whole controversy looks rather familiar: Yes, it's the ...
5 live review: 2012
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews 2012. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
The Best Christmas Movie Ever
As a 3D Jim Carrey bursts out of screens (like some seasonal version of John Hurt's personal alien) in Robert Zemeckis's Disney version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, I'm reminded that it is time to court your opinions on the best Christmas movies of all time, as well as letting you kno...
Screening Room: Disaster!
On the screening room this week Simon Mayo and I wondered why apocalyse movies are always apocalyptically bad. Your comments please...
