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It’s been very hot this past week and it seems that even the news have no juice left in them. Now I’ve had a very long and hard dig around cyberspace for you, but it’s like searching for water in a scorching desert and instead finding dry biscuits - you know that awful kind that [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "News Muse - Drought", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/07/03/news-muse-drought/" });

When you think of Brazil, horror movies don’t automatically spring to mind. But José Mojica Marins is the country’s king of the genre. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, his surreal films were a mix of the Ed Wood school of shoddy filmmaking and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s metaphysical musings.
But over the past 40 decades, Marins has created [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Pete’s Peek | Embodiment of Evil", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/07/02/petes-peek-embodiment-of-evil/" });

Michael Mann clearly thinks crooks are cool. Look at the evidence on screen: in film after film he’s drawn to bandits and outlaws, felons and fugitives, hoods and heavies. Like a hopeless recidivist, he just can’t keep away from crime.
From Thief to Manhunter, Heat to Collateral, Mann has turned crooks and killers – and the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Best view | Public Enemies - Johnny Depp gives Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger a dangerous glamour", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/07/01/the-best-view-public-enemies-johnny-depp-gives-depression-era-outlaw-john-dillinger-a-dangerous-glamour/" });

Movie Talk sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news - so you don’t have to get your paws dirty…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that from next year on they will be announcing ten Best Picture nominees instead of five. And earlier [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "News Hound | 1 July 2009", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/07/01/news-hound-1-july-2009/" });

Fans of the Fantastic Four’s Human Torch Chris Evans, and War of the Worlds star Dakota Fanning (now very grown up) will lap up this rocking adventure about psychic espionage.
In the bustling city of Hong Kong, Evan’s character Nick has gone into hiding because he has telekinetic powers. A sinister government agency (aren’t they all) [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Pete’s Peek | Push", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/07/01/petes-peek-push/" });

Did anyone else see the The Michael Jackson Story on Movies 24 last night? I wasn’t intending to watch it, but after stumbling upon it in an attempt to escape all the other King of Pop programming I couldn’t quite pull myself away. It’s a potted history, charting the extreme highs and extreme lows of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Couch Potato Pickings - The Michael Jackson Story: what do you think of this biographical telefilm?", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/07/01/couch-potato-pickings-the-michael-jackson-story-what-do-you-think-of-this-biographical-telefilm/" });

If you love Italian exploitation cinema, then Arrow Video’s Masters of Giallo collection is not to be missed as three of the genre’s best-known shockers are raised from the dead, uncut for the first time in the UK, with a host of extras.
Here’s our look at the first batch, but what do fans think? What [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fulci, Bava, Argento – Italy’s Kings of Horror on DVD", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/07/01/fulci-bava-argento-%e2%80%93-italys-kings-of-horror-on-dvd/" });

I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer is a great title, writes our special sports correspondent Jim Fone, but unfortunately it’s also the funniest thing about this Australian cricketing horror comedy. That’s right, a cricketing horror comedy, a genre that’s as rare as an attacking shot from Geoffrey Boycott.
With his sharpened stumps, nail-embedded [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Out on DVD | I Know How Many Runs Your Scored Last Summer", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/06/29/i-know-how-many-runs-your-scored-last-summer/" });

Yesterday, two of my friends tied the knot and held a good old knees-up to mark the occasion. That’s the best sort of celebration in my opinion - simple, yet romantic.
Simplicity, however, is not a characteristic of movie marriages, is it? Getting hitched has to be as complex and dramatic as possible when it’s taking [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Couch Potato Pickings | Wedding Movies: the good, the bad, and the unexpected", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/06/28/couch-potato-pickings-wedding-movies/" });

We’ve had our fair share of death in the world of celebrity in the last 24 hours. First Farrah Fawcett, who died of cancer yesterday morning, swiftly followed (and overshadowed) by the sudden death of Michael Jackson. Jordan is however still alive and well, although she must be chewing her own hair extentions in fury [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "News Muse - Jeff Goldblum is NOT dead!", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/06/26/news-muse-jeff-goldblum-is-not-dead/" });

And so the King of Pop has left the building for good. We here at Movie Talk would like to pay our filmic tribute to Michael Jackson with this recap of his quirky movie career, which allowed him to brush shoulders with some big (and some rather small) names in the industry:
In 1978, Sidney Lumet [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Michael Jackson gets his wings", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/06/26/michael-jackson-gets-his-wings/" });

Bidding to repeat the success of Little Miss Sunshine, quirky comedy drama Sunshine Cleaning sticks closely to the formula that made its predecessor a breakout indie hit and a surprise double-Oscar winner at the 2007 Academy Awards.
It shares the same producers (who probably insisted on the word ‘Sunshine’ in the title) and an Albuquerque, New [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "At the Cinema | Sunshine Cleaning - Amy Adams & Emily Blunt scrub up beautifully in quirky comedy drama", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/06/26/at-the-cinema-sunshine-cleaning-amy-adams-emily-blunt-scrub-up-beautifully-in-quirky-comedy-drama/" });

Like Sunshine Cleaning, also released today, Rudo y Cursi is a story of squabbling siblings - and another film seeking to repeat the success of an earlier surprise hit.
Back at the start of the decade, in the sexy, bittersweet Mexican movie Y tu mamá también, Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal leaped to international stardom [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Best view | Rudo y Cursi - Star players Diego Luna & Gael García Bernal team up for comic tale of soccer-playing siblings", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/06/26/the-best-view-rudo-y-cursi-star-players-diego-luna-gael-garcia-bernal-team-up-for-comic-tale-of-soccer-playing-siblings/" });

Pirouetting, toe-tapping, hoofing, gliding, stepping, strutting. Dance moves in the movies are certainly not in short supply.
Ballet meets hip hop in tonight’s dancing drama where Julia Stiles plays a bereaved middle class teen who has her love for dance reawakened by a classmate (Sean Patrick Thomas) at her new inner city school. Read more about [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Couch Potato Pickings | Save the Last Dance, and other dancing movies", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/06/26/couch-potato-pickings-save-the-last-dance/" });

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Age concern… Brad Pitt plays a man who is born a pensioner and steadily grows younger.

He’s Just Not That Into You
Heart of the matter… This star-studded comedy follows the romantic misadventures of nine individuals in their twenties and thirties.





Slumdog Millionaire
Hot seat… Questions are asked when [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/06/25/small-screen-%e2%80%93-this-weeks-top-ten-dvds%e2%80%a6-16/" });

Che Guevara: heroic guerrilla fighter, charismatic politician and revolutionary martyr, not to mention counterculture pin-up – without a doubt, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was one of the most famous and controversial figures of the 20th Century. Now, acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbegh has explored his complex story in an epic saga that spans two films and stars [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Win Steven Soderbergh’s epic biopic of revolutionary Che Guevera on DVD", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/06/23/win-steven-soderberghs-epic-biopic-of-revolutionary-che-guevera-on-dvd/" });

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Robots in disguise… This big-budget sequel sees Sam Witwicky again joining forces with the Autobots in their battle against the Decepticons; a battle, it seems, that may have started on Earth many years before…





The Hangover
Night to remember… Four friends travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. The [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/06/23/big-screen-%e2%80%93-this-weeks-top-ten-at-the-cinema%e2%80%a6-16/" });

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the director who made his name with the horror films Cure and Pulse, scores another triumph (and a Cannes Jury Prize award) with his new film, the recession-inspired family drama, Tokyo Sonata.
When Sasaki (Teruyuki Kagawa, last seen in 20th-Century Boys) is made redundant from his job at a large medical equipment company, his [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Pete’s Peek | Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/2009/06/22/petes-peek-kurosawas-tokyo-sonata/" });

It’s a wonder how Michelle Pfeiffer managed to pursue a film career after starring in this shockingly bad sequel to the 1978 smash-hit  musical.
Grease 2 is showing on ITV2 tonight at 6.45pm.
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Everyone forgets that Tom Cruise was the original Pants Man.
Risky Business is showing on BBC2 tonight at 11.40pm. Read more about the film here.




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