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Leading Dutch independent production company Lemming Film has restructured, promoting producers Erik Glijnis and Tom van Blommestein to the new positions of head of film and head of TV series respectively.

The restructure comes as Lemming manages a busy development and production slate (see below for more details).

Glijnis has worked at Lemming since 2016 and has producing credits including Sweet Dreams, which premiered in Locarno in 2023 and was the Dutch Oscar candidate, Do Not Hesitate, Milk and Dead And Beautiful.

Van Blommestein joined Lemming in 2020 having formerly worked at Nl Film and Endemol Shine. His credits include Zenith season 2, Floor Rules,...

The Oscars don’t always get it right. There have been many notable injustices since the first ceremony took place in 1929, but surely none more surprising than the absence of Alfred Hitchcock’s name from the list of winners.

The man responsible for some of the greatest films ever made, and who committed many of cinema’s most deathless images to celluloid, never won an Academy Award despite being nominated for best director on five occasions: Rebecca in 1940, Lifeboat in 1944, Spellbound in 1945, Rear Window in 1954 and Psycho in 1960.

However, these five movies represent just a small percentage of Hitchcock’s magnificent oeuvre of 52 films. To counteract this injustice, here is my selection of his 20 greatest.

20. Blackmail (1929)

A young woman kills a man who tries to rape her and then finds herself caught between the investigating policeman, who happens to be her fiance, and a blackmailer. Generally considered to be the first British talkie,...

The Oscars don’t always get it right. There have been many notable injustices since the first ceremony took place in 1929, but surely none more surprising than the absence of Alfred Hitchcock’s name from the list of winners.

The man responsible for some of the greatest films ever made, and who committed many of cinema’s most deathless images to celluloid, never won an Academy Award despite being nominated for best director on five occasions: Rebecca in 1940, Lifeboat in 1944, Spellbound in 1945, Rear Window in 1954 and Psycho in 1960.

However, these five movies represent just a small percentage of Hitchcock’s magnificent oeuvre of 52 films. To counteract this injustice, here is my selection of his 20 greatest.

20. Blackmail (1929)

A young woman kills a man who tries to rape her and then finds herself caught between the investigating policeman, who happens to be her fiance, and a blackmailer. Generally considered to be the first British talkie,...

The Oscars don’t always get it right. There have been many notable injustices since the first ceremony took place in 1929, but surely none more surprising than the absence of Alfred Hitchcock’s name from the list of winners.

The man responsible for some of the greatest films ever made, and who committed many of cinema’s most deathless images to celluloid, never won an Academy Award despite being nominated for best director on five occasions: Rebecca in 1940, Lifeboat in 1944, Spellbound in 1945, Rear Window in 1954 and Psycho in 1960.

However, these five movies represent just a small percentage of Hitchcock’s magnificent oeuvre of 52 films. To counteract this injustice, here is my selection of his 20 greatest.

20. Blackmail (1929)

A young woman kills a man who tries to rape her and then finds herself caught between the investigating policeman, who happens to be her fiance, and a blackmailer. Generally considered to be the first British talkie,...

David Hyde Pierce has joined HBO Max and Lionsgate’s Julia Child pilot, taking over for Tom Hollander as the legendary chef’s husband, Paul Child, the streamer announced Tuesday.

Ordered to pilot back in March, the hourlong series from is described as an exploration into “an evolving time in American history – the emergence of a new social institution called public television, feminism and the women’s movement, the nature of celebrity, and America’s cultural growth” through the lens of Child’s life “and her singular can-do spirit.”

“At its heart, the show is a portrait of a marriage with an evolving and complicated power dynamic,” according to the series description.

“Happy Valley” star Sarah Lancashire is set to star as Child, with “Bird Box” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” actor Tom Hollander initially cast as Child’s “loving and devoted” husband, Paul. Additional cast members include Jefferson Mays (“I Am the Night...

Actor Hugo Weaving ("The Matrix") stars in the new Australian-produced full-length 'virtual reality' thriller, "Lone Wolf", directed by Jonathan Ogilvie, adapting author Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel "The Secret Agent", with LevelK acquiring world sales rights:

"...set in contemporary Melbourne, 'Winnie' runs a struggling 'political' bookshop with her boyfriend 'Conrad' and takes care of her disabled brother.

"But Winnie's efforts to hold everything together get thwarted when Conrad becomes entangled in an act of terrorism, with a group of anarchists. One of whom is also a police informant..."

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Actor Hugo Weaving ("The Matrix") stars in the new full-length 'virtual reality' thriller, "Lone Wolf", directed by Jonathan Ogilvie, adapting author Joseph Conrad’s 1907 novel "The Secret Agent":

"...set in contemporary Melbourne, 'Winnie' runs a struggling 'political' bookshop with her boyfriend 'Conrad' and takes care of her disabled brother.

"But Winnie's efforts to hold everything together get thwarted when Conrad becomes entangled in an act of terrorism, with a group of anarchists. One of whom is also a police informant..."

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Charlize Theron’s “Atomic Blonde” opens this weekend, and so far it’s garnered mostly positive reviews from critics. The secret agent thriller finds Theron as Agent Lorraine Broughton, one of the top spies in the British MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service), who’s dispatched to Berlin to take down a ring of bad-guy spies. In the era of big-budget superhero action movies, extended universes and long-running, expansive franchises, heading to the movies always brings one major question with it: Whether you should sit through the credits. For many, when the credits roll, it’s time to sprint for the bathroom,...

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Louisa Mellor Jul 19, 2016

Netflix's Stranger Things may be a nostalgia-fest, but that's not new. TV has always let us escape into comforting stories about the past…

Remember the good old days? They were good weren’t they? Not like now. It’s horrible now. That’s why everything on TV is comforting, coddling, backwards-looking fluff. We all just want to dive onto a feathery pile of period television and forget about the cruel, unsettling world of today. A world where, get this, the Soviets have gone into space. And there’s that war in Korea. Everyone’s testing hydrogen bombs all over the place, Castro’s taken over Cuba and innocent people keep getting lynched. I ask you. It’s little wonder all we want to watch on TV are cosy Westerns. Switch on Gunsmoke and all that worry melts away.

Fast-forward a few decades to now, when the release...

Rob Leane Jul 4, 2016

Toby Jones stars a Verloc - a shop owner coerced into a London bombing - in BBC One's The Secret Agent...

There's a soft spot for Toby Jones in many a geeky heart, thanks in no small part to his memorable turns in Doctor Who and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We thought you might like to know, then, that Mr Jones has a new TV show coming out soon. (It also stars Vicky McClure of the excellent Line Of Duty and This Is England.)

It's an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, and it's all about a chap named Verloc who runs a somewhat seedy shop in 1886 London. He's paid by the Russian embassy to orchestrate a bombing, which looks likely to push his moral compass to its limits.

Here's the trailer...

The Secret Agent begins on BBC One on Sunday the 17th of July.

Content Television has sold upcoming BBC drama The Secret Agent to Rlj Entertainment's Acorn in the U.S. The four-part period series is due to air on BBC One later this year and will stream in the U.S via Acorn TV, a major purveyor of British drama which last year scored its first-ever Emmy nomination with Agatha Christie's Poirot: Curtain, Poirot’s Last Case. From Line Of Duty and Bletchley Circle producers, World Productions, The Secret Agent is the adaptation of Joseph…...

Features to shoot in the region include Steven Spielberg’s The Bfg and Tommy’s Honour.

Film Edinburgh has reported a record breaking year for film productions in the region.

In the last 12 months, the local film commission for Edinburgh, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders has reported an economic impact of more than £6.6m ($9.7m) generated from filming in the city region - a 27% rise on 2014.

It marks the highest economic impact return in the organisation’s 25-year history and was a direct result of two major TV dramas - BBC Productions’ One Of Us and The Secret Agent - and feature film Tommy’s Honour, each basing their entire production schedules in Edinburgh.

A total of 353 productions completed in 2015, marginally down (3%) on last year’s figures. But conversion rates from filming enquires to completed productions increased by 3% year-on-year.

Other major film and TV productions to shoot on location in the region this year included [link=tt...

The fund will target productions that bring benefits to the Scottish film sector and economy.

In what Creative Scotland’s Director of Film & Media, Natalie Usher, is describing as “a really fantastic offering,” the new Scottish $2.7m (£1.75m) Production Growth Fund (Pgf) has launched and is open for applications today.

“It is a fund that will be attractive to feature film and high-end TV drama productions that will be accessing the UK tax credits,” Usher told ScreenDaily.

“What we are trying to do is bring bigger productions here and to hold on to productions from Scottish-based producers who might otherwise go to other nations or parts of the UK.”

Investments from the Pgf are non-recoupable and will reward productions that bring benefits to the Scottish film sector and economy.

A total of £750,000 is available for the period until March 31 2016 and a further £1m is earmarked for 2016/17.

The maximum any production can receive from the Pgf is £500,000 -...

This Week: The secret agent thrills of Kingsman, time-travelling teens in Project Almanac, and a Pam Grier party on blu-ray. ► If it wasn't for the return of Mad Max, we'd likely be calling Kingsman: The Secret Service the best action movie of the year. It's certainly the most surprising - based on a Mark Millar comic about a troubled British... Read More...

There's nothing better than being pleasantly surprised by a movie (especially if you're someone who sees, say, basically every movie released) and that's exactly what happened with this week's Spy.  The secret agent spoof stars Melissa McCarthy (with the likes of Rose Byrne, Jude Law and Jason Statham playing second fiddle) and sees her teaming up with frequent collaborator Paul Feig as writer/director. It also happens to be McCarthy's strongest movie yet. Admittedly, I didn't have the highest hopes for the flick, in part because of the disasters of action-comedy combos past (Knight and Day and The Bounty Hunter come to mind...shudder). I'm also still a little scarred...

A clip from Alfred Hitchcock's dark thriller from 1936, adapted from Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent. By coincidence, Hitchcock's previous film, released earlier in the same year, was called Secret Agent. Austrian actor Oscar Homolka plays Verloc, who is plotting a terrorist outrage in London, with Sylvia Sidney as his wife. In this scene, Verloc blames Scotland Yard for the death of his wife's hapless brother, blown up accidentally as he carries a bomb intended for Piccadilly Circus tube station

• Sabotage is released on Blu-Ray on 1 June courtesy of Network Distributing Continue reading...

Hollywood went hunting for lots of British comedy talent in the 1990s - and lured the likes of Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson...

For some reason, Hollywood fell in love with British actors again in the 1990s. Sparked by Alan Rickman's turn as Hans Gruber in Die Hard at the back end of the 1980s, many movie villains were either Brits, or in the case of Cliffhanger, John Lithgow taking on the mannerisms of a British antagonist.

Yet in particular, Hollywood went recruiting British comedy talent, with faces then mainly - but not exclusively - known for their small screen work getting roles of various sizes in Hollywood productions. Here are some who racked up the air miles - starting with the man who arguably became one of the most successful...

Hugh Laurie - 101 Dalmatians

Laurie is a man of many talents, who ultimately cracked America with...

The BBC has announced its upcoming new drama series for 2015.

Head of Drama Ben Stephenson revealed at an event last night (November 19) that several new dramas will be shown next year, along with the previously announced SS-gb, The Dresser, Undercover, and the return of Top of the Lake and a new Luther miniseries.

One of Us will be a modern thriller set in the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh, and is written by The Missing's Harry and Jack Williams.

The four-part series revolves around a double murder which shatters two families living next to each other, and focuses on the relatives as they grieve their losses and deal with the consequences.

The writers said: "We're excited to be telling a modern-day parable that explores big themes and ideas through the lens of a very personal, character-driven story".

Cuffs will be an eight-part cop drama from Julie Gearey (Prisoners' Wives), airing on BBC One.

The BBC used a special event in London this week to announce a slew of new drama programming that it has planned for 2015 including a bunch of limited series.

The most notable of the announcements is that the original "Luther" is returning next year for an "event special" on BBC One. Idris Elba will reprise the role for the two hourlong episodes which begin filming March ahead of an airing late in 2015.

The news comes just a day or so after word came that U.S. network Fox has ordered a pilot for a remake of the British detective drama, news that has since met with a strong backlash in various comments and forums.

Creator Neil Cross is behind the two new installments which are rumored to be the precursor to an eventual "Luther" movie. No word as yet as to whether actress Ruth Wilson, currently starring in Showtime's "The Affair,...

We are officially jealous of this mother-son bonding.

We are officially jealous of this mother-son bonding.

90's James Bond Pierce Brosnan was leaving lunch in NYC with his mother, and from the look of things, she is absolutely delightful.

See Also: Stars Share Pics of Their Cute Kids

First of all, what a class act. The secret agent himself takes his mother out for a day on the town, And holds her hand! With a son like that, we'd rock a "best day ever" face too.

Read: 'Mrs. Doubtfire' Co-Star Pierce Brosnan Shares Memories Of Robin Williams

Absolutely adorable.

We love you Mary May Smith!

One reason Pierce might be such a good son is he obviously didn't spend too much time in his room playing video games. Jimmy Fallon challenged Pierce to some Nintendo Goldeneye, and the result is priceless. Watch the video below.

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"Suicide is a permanent solution to temporary problems." - Robin Williams, "World's Greatest Dad" This is a very emotional "Ask Drew." This is, I would suspect, the closest you're ever going to see to me losing it on camera completely. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when there was a Robin Williams question, since it's still so fresh and so raw for so many people, but I couldn't have known just how hard it would be to talk about him. I mean, I have stared at the blinking cursor on my blank document page for almost two days now, grappling with one question: how in the hell do you even remotely begin to sum up someone as huge as Robin Williams? We could start from the personal angle. I could tell you about the occasional e-mails I got from him when I was at Ain't It Cool, or the...

Just minutes after news broke of Robin Williams’ tragic passing, the veteran actor’s former co-stars and admirers came forth with their memories of the late comedian, either via Twitter or statements.

Related Sarah Michelle Gellar Pays Tribute to Robin Williams, Calls Him ‘the Father I Had Always Dreamed of Having’

One of the first, and most heartbreaking, responses came from Scott Weinger, who voiced Aladdin opposite Williams’ Genie in Disney’s 1992 classic:

Farewell to my childhood hero and my Genie. The world won't be the same without him.—

Scott Weinger (@ScottWeinger) August 11, 2014

Pam Dawber, who played Mindy to Williams...

Josh Hartnett battles scary monsters in Showtime’s new horror series Penny Dreadful. The actor, 35, who says he loves The Beach Boys and fixing things, chatted with People this week about "one last thing." Last moment of blissIt's such a man thing, but if I can fix something, it's blissful for me. I'm renting this house, and there is a French press coffeemaker that just wouldn't go together correctly. It was a very simple thing, but I did it and it made my coffee so much more delicious. Last musical obsessionI've been getting back into The Beach Boys. I started...

Interview Simon Brew 29 Nov 2013 - 06:03

Edgar Wright looks back at The World's End, and talks The Godfather Part II, Crank and moviemaking too...

Out now on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK is the final part of the Cornetto trilogy, The World's End. We spoke to Simon Pegg about the film earlier in the way, but we've since also sat down with its director and co-writer, Edgar Wright. And here's how the chat went...

The interesting thing about the response to The World's End, and I've seen this with Hot Fuzz to an extent too, is that the second reaction to the film tends to be different to the first. That the first watch is quite a broad one, but the second uncovers what's under the surface. Themes such as lonliness, and the destructiveness of Gary.

So how closely do you follow that? Does the first reaction bother you per se,...

A Bond book is a tough gig, but Boyd's authentically written attempt entertains more than it exasperates

Several unusual incidents occur during the course of Solo, the latest attempt to prolong the literary existence of James Bond. The secret agent pays his first recorded visit to the cinema, to see Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (this is 1969), although he gets bored and leaves before the end. He considers changing his hairstyle, for aesthetic reasons rather than as a disguise, and wonders whether the short fringe favoured by a television presenter (he can't remember his name, but it sounds like David Frost) might suit him. During a long car journey he stops to relieve himself in a wood, which will come as a shock to those who believe that 007, like the Queen, exists in a realm above such crude bodily functions. Perhaps most disturbing of all, while getting dressed for the final...

James Bond is going to the Oscars.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced on Friday that the 85th annual Academy Awards ceremony will include a tribute to 007. The secret agent celebrated his 50th anniversary in 2012, marked by the release of "Skyfall."

"We are very happy to include a special sequence on our show saluting the Bond films on their 50th birthday," said producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron in a statement. "Starting with 'Dr. No' back in 1962, the 007 movies have become the longest-running motion picture franchise in history and a beloved global phenomenon."

James Bond films have been notoriously disregarded by the Academy Awards. Only "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball" have won Oscars, but in the sound and visual effects categories, respectively. The last James Bond film to receive an Oscar nomination was "For Your Eyes Only" in 1981.

In an ironic twist, however, "Skyfall" -- the biggest Bond film ever,...

Washington, Oct 11: Fictional superspy James Bond has been named as Hollywood's most influential man in a new online poll.

The secret agent, currently portrayed by Daniel Craig in the 007 franchise, beat the world's fastest man, Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt, to the top of AskMen.com's survey, leaving the athlete trailing at number two, Contactmusic reported.

According to the website editors, Ian Fleming's secret agent character.

James Marsh's gripping thriller takes us deep into the bitterly divided world of 90s Northern Ireland

The director of the gripping Belfast-set thriller Shadow Dancer, James Marsh, and its screenwriter, Tom Bradby, both have one foot in fact and the other in fiction. Marsh is best known for his imaginative feature-length documentaries, Man on Wire, which won an Oscar in 2009, and Project Nim, as well as his TV film Red Riding: 1980. The TV journalist and novelist Bradby reported from Northern Ireland for ITN in the 1990s, the setting of Shadow Dancer, the first of his six thrillers. Their film centres on the perennially interesting relationship between the spy or informer or undercover agent and the person in authority who controls them. The characters are trapped between the complicated moral realities around them and the fictions that fate imposes on them, and the situation goes back at least as far...

James Marsh's gripping thriller takes us deep into the bitterly divided world of 90s Northern Ireland

The director of the gripping Belfast-set thriller Shadow Dancer, James Marsh, and its screenwriter, Tom Bradby, both have one foot in fact and the other in fiction. Marsh is best known for his imaginative feature-length documentaries, Man on Wire, which won an Oscar in 2009, and Project Nim, as well as his TV film Red Riding: 1980. The TV journalist and novelist Bradby reported from Northern Ireland for ITN in the 1990s, the setting of Shadow Dancer, the first of his six thrillers. Their film centres on the perennially interesting relationship between the spy or informer or undercover agent and the person in authority who controls them. The characters are trapped between the complicated moral realities around them and the fictions that fate imposes on them, and the situation goes back at least as far...

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Ever wish you could be a sports anchor, behind the scenes at Espn? A Rock Star, chilling with Green Day? A fashionista, hanging with Heidi Klum? A professional videogamer? A Club DJ? A secret agent? Now, Rekall will give moviegoers the chance to live out their fantasies.

In the new movie Total Recall, in theaters August 3rd, an ordinary factory worker visits Rekall . the company that can give you real memories of a fantastic life. In Sony Pictures Entertainment.s .Welcome to Rekall. sweepstakes at www.WelcomeToRekall.com, moviegoers will get their chance to bring the Rekall experience to life with a fantasy sweepstakes package.

In addition, all visitors to the site will be able to link their Facebook profiles to their entry to receive a personalized Rekall video, detailing the story of their brand new memories and successful Rekall experience,...

We recently clued in on a cool contest taking place on the Total Recall film website, in which contestants can win a “new identity” in a sweet looking contest. It might be worth an entry, depending on your dreams and aspirations in life. It’s an awesome way to promote a movie, and reward fans excited for the Total Recall remake (PG-13). The press release is below:

We are bringing the Rekall experience to life allowing everyday people a chance to enter and win their fantasy dream come true. Ever wish you could be a sports anchor, behind the scenes at Espn? A Rock Star, chilling with Green Day? A fashionista, hanging with Heidi Klum? A professional videogamer? A Club DJ? A secret agent? Now, Rekall will give moviegoers the chance to live out their fantasies.

In the new movie Total Recall, in theaters August 3rd, an ordinary factory worker...

Have a Facebook page? Like winning free stuff? Looking forward to the new Total Recall flick? If you answered yes to any of these questions, listen up, take heed, and have some fun as reality is about to be altered for the better.

From the Press Release

Ever wish you could be a sports anchor, behind the scenes at Espn? A rock star, chilling with Green Day? A fashionista, hanging with Heidi Klum? A professional video gamer? A club DJ? A secret agent? Now, Rekall will give moviegoers the chance to live out their fantasies.

In the new movie Total Recall, in theaters August 3rd, an ordinary factory worker visits Rekall – the company that can give you real memories of a fantastic life. In Sony Pictures Entertainment’s “Welcome to Rekall” sweepstakes (click here), moviegoers will get their chance to bring the Rekall experience to life with a fantasy sweepstakes package.

Everyone knows the classic Hitchcocks: Psycho, The Birds, The Lady Vanishes. But the summer-long retrospective also includes wonderful films you may not have heard much about; here's 10 often-overlooked Hitchcocks you won't want to miss

Born in Leytonstone, east London, but destined to be the toast of Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock learned the business of film-making in London, not La. The business at that time was silent cinema, and the young Hitchcock had a full apprenticeship.

He spent years at Gainsborough Pictures in Islington, north London (or Famous Players-Lasky as it was when he arrived) crafting caption cards, editing scripts and designing sets before he was given the chance to direct his own films. His early features are far more accomplished, and more personal, than many a director's debut. And if you're familiar with his famous sound movies, you'll find much in them that prefigures his most celebrated suspense-filled sequences.

The British...

Walt Disney & Co. “Marvel’s The Avengers”

The Journal’s Joe Morgenstern released his — we’ll say it –mixed– review of “Marvel’s The Avengers.”

He thinks Robert Downey Jr. was better in the first “Iron Man,” and he calls Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk, “bland.”

He is, however, a fan of Chris Hemsworth’s Thor: “the demigod is touching in his attachment to his trusty hammer.”

He writes:

What passes for a plot is simple enough, even if frequent...

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The new James Bond film, Skyfall, will see the secret agent turning his back on martinis in favour of a well-known Dutch beer

It might seem an unlikely tipple for a casino high roller, but at least James Bond won't have to worry whether it comes shaken or stirred. The secret agent is to swap his martini for a beer in the forthcoming 007 film, Skyfall.

The move is the result of a commercial deal cut with the Dutch brewers Heineken as part of a whopping $45m in reported product placement. The film's director, Sam Mendes, will even shoot an advert for the beer featuring the suave secret agent.

Bond's product placement has increased dramatically in recent films. In 2006's Casino Royale, Daniel Craig casually informed us that his spiffing new wristwatch was manufactured by Omega. And who could forget Pierce Brosnan's Ericsson mobile phone in Tomorrow Never Dies, which...

We're treated to a brand new episode of Archer today and fans cannot wait another second to tune in to one of the best animated shows around. The secret agent's sarcastic and arrogant ways always have my cheeks hurting (phrasing!) from non-stop laughter. His ego is so large that cancer was literally the only thing capable of taking it down a notch. But, as hilarious and foolish as Sterling Archer might be, his supporting cast is every bit as ridiculous and has dished out more than a fair amount of Rofl moments for us. With only 11 jokes, there's no way all of your favorites will have made the cut. So when you're done reading, be sure to share your favorite Archer jokes in the comments section at the bottom of the page! And now the moment you've been waiting for, the best Archer jokes.

Robin Williams talks playing bad guys, doing accents, his return to stand-up, voicing animation, and why he no longer plays multiplayer Call Of Duty online…

Reading a Robin Williams interview is like trying to listen to a Hendrix tune by staring at the guitar tab: so much of the good stuff gets lost in translation. He doesn’t so much answer questions as improvise a stand-up set around them, springing into voices and one-liners with the lightest of prompting.

Williams speaks fast, and laughs often. When he’s being himself - though how can you tell? - his vocabulary is full of “like, dude” and “big time” surf-speak. He nimbly evades anything getting serious by driving his answers full steam into entertaining anecdotes or gags.

In a 15-minute round table chat, he did at least 15 different voices (one per minute, though it felt like more) and cracked jokes I’m...

James Bond sequels regulary end up being international affairs. The secret agent.s license to kill usually works as a passport to global hotspots. I.d be hard pressed to come up with any major international location that didn.t serve as the backdrop for at least one 007 adventure. As director Sam Mendes puts the finishing touches on pre-production for his as-yet-untitled Bond 23, we continue to hear about new locations that plan to host 007.s crew. India was on the list, until railway officials gave Mendes a hard time about an elaborate railway stunt that would .promote. train hopping by locals (a no-no in India). South Africa was selected as an alternate shooting location. Now MI6-hq.com, a Web site dedicated to the latest James Bond news, says longtime producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli met with officials in Istanbul, Turkey, to finalize plans to shoot multiple...

First a word: there was a terrible convergence of reality and fiction. The tragedy of Japan cannot be understated. Please help if you can. Here are a few options.

Now, to the business at hand:

Well, how about that! The Event has really picked up the pace. Let’s hope the ratings pick up as well! Let’s do this: if you twitter, and you know you do, use the hashtag #saveTheEvent! On with the ramblings:

the heartache lives on insideAnd who's the one you're clinging toinstead of me tonight?

And where are you now, now that I need you?Tears on my pillow wherever you goI'll cry me a river that leads to your oceanYou never see me fall apart

In the words of a broken heartit's just emotion taking me overCaught up in sorrowlost in the song but if you don't come back Come home to me, darlingdon't...

ChaCha put together a list of actors who have died the most in their movies. Topping the list is Robert De Niro with fifteen deaths, including ones in "Cape Fear," "Frankenstein" and "Jackie Brown." Bruce Willis also made the list and was actually killed twice by his ex-wife Demi Moore in "Mortal Thoughts" and "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle." Brad Pitt is in top ten as well, but his deaths are a bit odd. He died in "Cool World," but returned as an animated character. He died in "Fight Club," but never actually existed. And he died in "Meet Joe Black," but came back as Death. The list is far from perfect, since it doesn't include Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed, Titanic, Blood Diamond), Kevin Spacey (Se7en, American Beauty, La Confidential), Samuel L. Jackson (Deep Blue Sea, True Romance, Jurassic Park), or John Travolta (Pulp Fiction, Face/Off, The Punisher). Plus, there...

Chris Morris has been bold in his choice of target, but his home-grown jihadists are little more than sitcom characters

Published in 1907, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent is not only one of the greatest, enduringly relevant novels about terrorism and its varied exponents, but it has increasingly come to be recognised as a darkly comic, savagely ironic masterpiece. Though Hitchcock saw nothing funny in The Secret Agent when he updated it as Sabotage in 1936, his film turns upon wiping the smile off the British public's face.

Verloc, the agent provocateur, is hired to stage an explosion at London's Battersea power station to discredit foreign political agitators. When it proves to be a brief inconvenience met with amused local stoicism, Verloc's angry employers send him the instruction: "London must not laugh", which leads him to arrange the planting of a bomb at Greenwich Observatory. This results in the destruction of his innocent stepson on screen,...

Chris Morris has been bold in his choice of target, but his home-grown jihadists are little more than sitcom characters

Published in 1907, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent is not only one of the greatest, enduringly relevant novels about terrorism and its varied exponents, but it has increasingly come to be recognised as a darkly comic, savagely ironic masterpiece. Though Hitchcock saw nothing funny in The Secret Agent when he updated it as Sabotage in 1936, his film turns upon wiping the smile off the British public's face.

Verloc, the agent provocateur, is hired to stage an explosion at London's Battersea power station to discredit foreign political agitators. When it proves to be a brief inconvenience met with amused local stoicism, Verloc's angry employers send him the instruction: "London must not laugh", which leads him to arrange the planting of a bomb at Greenwich Observatory. This results in the destruction of his innocent stepson on screen,...

• I'm still not at that stage where I'd be willing to watch anything longer than Todd Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story off my computer screen. The film (Top 100 of All Time for me) lasts a total of 48 minutes. I recently pulled my own copy of The Lodger out of my own library and queued it for an eventual watch... and, this action coincided with this press release from Joost.com who've just added eight of the Master of Suspense's earlier films. I'm not totally turned off by the concept of watching them off the computer screen finally, an especially attractive feature during them tough economic times.  I wonder what is your favorite from the ones mentioned below? The Lodger (watch below), Blackmail , The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rich and Strange, Sabotage, The Secret Agent, The 39 Steps, Young and Innocent.          ...

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• Known mostly for adapting Dangerous Liaisons for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Christopher Hampton has also directed and adapted three films to date including Carrington, based on Michael Holroyd’s book, for which Mr. Hampton was awarded Special Jury Prize at the 1995 Cannes International Film Festival, The Secret Agent, based on the Joseph Conrad novel and more recently Imagining Argentina, based on Lawrence Thornton’s novel. I might with Hampton during media day for Atonement in Beverly Hills, CA. Christopher HamptonYama Rahimi: "Dangerous Liaisons" is one my favorite films of all time...Christopher Hampton: Good. Yr: Now you are back with another brilliant adaptation with "Atonement" but you have been directing as well. Since you are such a brilliant writer, what was the reason to direct? How's one medium different than the other? Ch: Well I started directing my first film "Carrington" because

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Robin Williams' worried wife is begging the comic to stop bringing his disturbing characters home - because he's terrifying his kids. The funnyman is best known for comic creations in Toys and Patch Adams as well as tender roles such as the mentor in Good Will Hunting, but of late he has been taking on more disturbing characters in Insomnia, Death To Smoochy and his latest thriller One Hour Photo, in which he plays a psychotic photo lab assistant. He says, "When I was making the film The Secret Agent, I played a character who made bombs and I sort of became the character, and one night my wife said, 'Stop, you're scaring the children. You can't bring these people home.'"...