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The Dark Knight Rises: Prologue screening
The first six minutes of The Dark Knight Rises? Oh yes, we’ve seen them. And they’re stunning. Dublo reports…
By Dublo, published on 15 December 2011
The king of Hollywood sci-fi: Philip K. Dick
To coincide with the release this month of The Adjustment Bureau, our very own screenwriter, Dublo, honours the silver screen’s most prolific science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick.
By Dublo, published on 9 March 2011
Bond’s future: How 007 should be kitted out next
When Pierce Brosnan took over from Timothy Dalton in 1995’s Goldeneye, the trailer’s voiceover reminded us gravely that “When the world is the target, and the threat is real. You can still depend, on one man.” Eh, except you can’t anymore. It seems not even James Bond is a match for the global economic crisis. [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 7 August 2010
The Social Network could turn us into a fan
Never let it be said that we don’t listen to our readers (both of them) here at The Prodigal Guide. Just yesterday, our Twitter buddy @Noodlefish dropped us a line with a little, eh, reader feedback. “Not seen much film-ic stuff on t’Guide recently…” he said. Well, @Noodlefish our friend, this one’s for you. We’re [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 29 July 2010
Inception looks genre defying and mind blowing
Christopher Nolan has never made a film that was anything less than clever, engrossing and fiercely entertaining. From Memento in 2000 through to 2008′s The Dark Knight, Nolan’s films have been a hugely impressive mix: intelligent, multilayered but also populist filmmaking. Like he would later do in the Batman universe, with Memento, Nolan took a [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 6 May 2010
Iron Man looks set to blow us all away
We’re gadget fans and movie buffs, so of course we’ve been clamouring to see the Iron Man sequel since the last reel of the first movie. Its assured mix of ludicrous but highly enjoyable action, clever comedy and just a hint of sentimentality proved a winner for Favreau and team first time out and ensured [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 9 March 2010
Money Never Sleeps: bull or bear?
At the tail-end of the eighties, Oliver Stone produced what many – including The Guide – consider to be his most successful film: Wall Street. By successful we mean that it managed to be both preachy (as all of Stone’s work tends to be) and hugely entertaining at the same time. A message movie with [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 21 February 2010
Oh come on, you will, won’t you? The A-Team remake
Hey, look, no one was more sceptical than us when word first reached Prodigal Towers that one of the corniest – yet well-loved – TV series of the 80s was being made into a film. But when you’ve got Tony and Ridley Scott producing and Joe Carnahan, the man behind the gritty Narc, in the [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 29 January 2010
Welcome back Mel Gibson: Edge of Darkness
Mel Gibson hasn’t had the best press recently. Shall we tell you how much we care about what Gibson gets up to in his private life? Not one jot. The man’s an actor; no one elected him president or pope. As far as The Guide is concerned, what he does off screen is his own [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 13 December 2009
Shutter Island looks like Scorsese at his creepiest
His name is inevitably associated with gangster movies – both contemporary and historic. And rightly so. From Mean Streets to The Departed, through Goodfellas, Casino and Gangs of New York, no one peers inside the lives of the lawless as shrewedly or as stylishly as Martin Scorsese. But what sometimes gets forgotten while we’re praising [...]
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 1 October 2009
