If you live in London, like movies, like to have a good time and have no plans on the 31st of July, you’d do well to get down to the Curzon on Shaftesbury Avenue for their midnight screenings of two of STS’s favourite films. John Hughes seminal teen movie, Pretty In Pink and David Lynch’s nightmare view of 50s suburbia, Blue Velvet.
Asylum Productions certainly can’t be accused of hiding their light under a bushel. Usually they make wince-inducing knock offs into big hits designed to appeal to a drunken Saturday night audience with neither taste control nor the willpower to switch channels. And generally they excel at it.
Bad news for the ‘already booked to do Thor’ Kenneth Branagh, but good news for red blooded, beef-eating English gentlemen everywhere, as Elizabeth writer Michael Hirst announces his latest trip into the barbarous depths of British history. The Tudors creator has signed on to adapt Bernard Cornwall’s epic tale of the Battle of Agincourt, a key moment in the hundred years war and one of the bloodiest battles in medieval history.
Interceptor takes a look at the most evil corporate parasites in living movie memory and comes up with a list of six. Here are the most dastardly, money-hungry and megalomaniacal enterprises in history. And if you think we’ve missed one – get yourself to the comments.
Needless to say, the trailers and early forecasts for G.I Joe didn’t exactly promise Citizen Kane-esque heights of filmic artistry, but frankly, if that’s what you’re after then you probably shouldn’t go and see a Steven Sommers flick that’s been co-produced by Hasbro.
