Film: Nell Schofield previews Love in the Time of Cholera and 21 May 18, 2008 It's been twenty-three years since the publication of Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's best-selling novel 'Love In The Time of Cholera'. And up until now, no-one has dared to attempt a screen version. But with the Vice President of Colombia on his side, British director Mike Newell has stepped up to the plate and taken on the daunting challenge.
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Film: Nell Schofield previews Sharkwater and Then She Found Me May 11, 2008 Watch our report It's a cruel irony that the one creature we fear the most is the one we can't live without. And yet in the past three decades we've managed to reduced its population by 90%. This is just one of many startling statistics presented in a new documentary that is destined to change the way we feel about sharks.
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Film: Nell Schofield previews Iron Man and The Counterfeiters May 4, 2008 VIDEO: Watch reviews. What makes a superhero? Well, in the popular world of Marvel Comics, it's usually some kind of supernatural power, as in the case of Spiderman and The Incredible Hulk. But there's one character who created his own special heroic qualities and that’s Iron Man. more
Film: Nell Schofield previews Gone, Baby, Gone and Paris April 20, 2008 VIDEO: Watch our report The issue of child abduction and indeed how parents raise their offspring in the first place is the subject of a new film by actor turned director Ben Affleck. It stars his brother Casey and is set in their hometown of Boston. Film: Nell Schofield previews Gone, Baby, Gone and Paris.
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Film: Nell Schofield previews Nim's Island and Apres Lui (After Him) March 30, 2008 Watch video We all know that Australia makes a great location for movies – the big blue skies, the long stretches of white sandy beaches and the lush green rainforests. These assets recently lured the producers of a new children's film to Hinchinbrook Island in the Great Barrier Reef to bring to life a fantasy story- book tale of a little girl in search of a hero. Nell Schofield previews Nim's Island and Apres Lui (After Him)more
Film: Nell Schofield previews Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and Be Kind, Rewind March 23, 2008 Watch video Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is an incredibly accomplished debut told from several different angles and shifting cleverly back and forth over the ten fateful days in which the action takes place. It's a seriously tense modern melodrama, focusing a clinical gaze on the idea of instant karma; if you rip off your parents, you're going down big time. Nell Schofield reviews Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and Be Kind, Rewind. more
Film: Nell Schofield previews Death Defying Acts and The Black Balloon March 16, 2008 Watch video Australian director Gillian Armstrong has a new film out this week starring local lad Guy Pearce as the famous American escapologist Harry Houdini. But Death Defying Acts is no bio-pic - it’s a fictional tale that conjures up a relationship between Houdini and a Scottish psychic showgirl who takes up the magician’s challenge to communicate with his recently deceased mother. Nell Schofield reviewsDeath Defying Acts and The Black Balloon. more
Film: Nell Schofield previews In The Shadow of the Moon and Closing the Ring March 9, 2008 Watch video
A new documentary was launched onto the big screen this week with the distinction of being the only film ever to have been shot entirely on Earth, in Space and on the Moon. It details the famous Apollo missions that took up President John F. Kennedy’s challenge of putting a man on the moon. We also get Closing the Ring, the debut of screenwriter Peter Woodward (son of actor Edward) who was inspired by the true story of a wedding ring found on a mountain in Belfast 50 years after an American bomber crashed there. Nell Schofield reviewsIn The Shadow of the Moon and Closing the Ringmore
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