Category Archives: Film

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Here’s Sir Ian McKellan at the Savannah Film Festival in Georgia last week, reprising his role as Gandalf, facing down the dread tennis-Balrog in the Mines of Moria.

As it actually happened, on the day.

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After the teaser last summer, we now get an extra minute of mashed up insanity in the full Sucker Punch trailer.  It’s taking shape as some sort of demented Alice in Wonderland/Matrix crossed with war movies from across the ages.

Release Date (Ireland): 2011

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This amazing time lapse featurette is a mere preview of Astronomy Photographer Tom Lowe’s soon to be released feature Timescapes, memorably described by the Washington Post as ‘the Planet Earth series on crack’.

Timescapes

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Were the Arquettes acting out their marriage troubles while filming this?  I’m expecting a Scooby Doo ending one way or the other.

Release Date (Ireland): April 2011

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Nic Cage growls at the camera while the poor man’s James Woods (William Fichtner) hunts him down. It looks like it’s full of the stupid along with explosions, muscle cars and girls in hot pants. Irresistible, no?

Release Date (Ireland): February 2011.

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Logorama, directed by the French animation collective H5: François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain. It won the 2010 Oscar for best animated short.

If you’ve never seen it before, and harbour any kind of ill-will toward Ronald McDonald, you’re in for a treat.

[YouTube version for the Flashless]

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Vincent, a 1982 animation written and directed by the reigning king of gothic stop-motion Tim Burton, tells the story of Vincent Malloy, a boy obsessed with Edgar Allen Poe who wants to be just like Vincent Price.

Narrated, rather wonderfully, by a 71 year-old Vincent Price.

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