Category Archives: Film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifvRiHVSCY

What you may need to know:

1. Judge Dredd is a character from classic Brit sci-fi comic 2000AD. Sly Stallone starred as Dredd back in 1995. It didn’t go well.

2. This second bash is more faithful to the original comics. Dredd don’t take his helmet off for no-one.

3. Behind the helmet? Kiwi bad-ass Karl Urban, AKA Éomer from Lord Of The Rings and Bones McCoy from the Star Trek re-boot.

4. The bad guy is played by Lena Headey with some heavy scarring make up so you may not realise she also plays Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones.

5. It’s written by Alex Garland, and directed by Pete Travis, who did Omagh.

6. Irish connection: hot ginger Domhnall Gleeson is in it somewhere.

7.. Looks like: a dystopian version of The Raid (2011), minus the cool martial arts bits.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwh3LthX2Es

Long before James Cameron’s version of Titanic, there was a Nazi propaganda film made in 1943 about the ill-fated voyage. Both share the dubious honour of being the most expensive films of their era, but only one of them was banned.

The whole film is now on YouTube if you’re up to watching a skewed view of the disaster.

Wikipedia: Titanic (1943)

[via @sineadgleeson]