It’s Christmas! And, try as we might, we couldn’t quite shoehorn in an article about Cliff Richard movies, so instead, here’s a classic Yuletide tale narrated by one of STS’s very favourite people – the always dour, but never non-festive Werner Herzog.
Sure to keep you awake on Christmas Eve….
As someone who actually makes something I laughingly refer to as a living from memes, apps, tools and general online doodads, I’ve been awaiting the Facebook movie ‘The Social Network’ with some trepidation, mainly because it will mean one of two things;
A:Tons of gibbering chimpos will watch it, hear the numbers being bandied around and set themselves up as ‘Social Media Gurus’ on Twitter, meaning it’ll be even harder for me to get a gig. Or
B:Tons of gibbering chimpos will watch it, and realise that what I do for a living isn’t actually that hard, I’ve just been fooling people into paying me over the odds.
Whatever, this new trailer has just pooped up over at www.500millionfriends.com, and it looks like the history of Monsiour Zuckerburg and his all-pervasive ivy league yearbook is going for the tense, courtroom drama angle. How tense you can get with Justin Timberlake as your leading man is up for debate, but will it hold Facebook’s creators up as heros -or point them out for ridicule?
More to the point -does anyone really give a shit about watching a college boy in a hoody make several billion dollars because people love to poke, farm and off each other Mafia style at this point?
Like or Unlike?
The Social Network is out in October.
If the worm is to believed, the Britain is ready for change. Even if it’s the sort of mind-numbingly boring change that involves paying an extra penny for fags in exchange for slightly more CCTV cameras being put up, but hey- at least Brown, Cameron and Clegg stayed on message, although personality-wise they could probably take a few pointers from these guys!Yep, we may have conviniently ignored both Big Ronnie Reagan and The Governator himself, but hey; these are still our top: Movie Politicians!
With Iron Man 2’s hype machine currently going into Scarlet Johannsen booby-shaped overdrive, it’s easy to think that inventors are a bunch of hyper-intelligent, supercool playboys cobbling together amazing doohickeys for the protection and betterment of mankind.
The movies have a long history of science-types saving the planet and coming up with amazing inventions to win the hearts and minds of us, the lowly viewer. Unfortunately, for every Tony Stark there’s a wet fart, with dozens of films full of half-assed ideas hewn from cardboard and clingfilm. Some are rubbish, some are stupid and others are downright dangerous!
Put on your safety goggles and stand behind the lead sheilding then, while we check out the top ten: Crap Movie Inventions!
Staggering bleary-eyed into work each morning, hung over from last night’s glittering showbiz party or all night Mario Bava marathon, it’s occasionally easy for STS to forget the more cultured side of cinema. Fortunately the venerable chaps at the BFI are onto us, and have seen fit to plaster the southbank with enormous billboards so that we remember that today is the start of The Times BFI 53rd Film Festival!
Running from October 14th – 29th at a variety of venues across London, the festival offers a unique and fascinating exploration of cinematic history and glimpses of the future, to draw a comprehensive picture of current Cinema at home and abroad.
Highlights this year include Delmer Dave’s hyper intense Jubal, transplanting Othello to the wild west with visually stunning results (and STS fave Ernest Borgnine!), Clive Jeavon’s look into the history of CBGB, the legendary fleapit Rock N’ Roll venue in New York’s Bowery district, and new British Cinema in the shape of The Scouting Book for Boys, a surprisingly funny and accurate look at the perils of growing up set across one lazy English summer.
Further showings will see the White Stripes banging out tunes on the square, visits to Woodstock and New Orleans courtesy of Maria Delgado and Werner Herzog, and a host of other unique visions that demand a spot in your filmgoing calendar.
For tickets and info check out the website here, and get the latest update tweets here.
