Danny Graydon

So, the long-standing rumours have proven to be true. As has been reported everywhere, and to most people’s utter lack of surprise, Lucasfilm have announced that the filmic Star Wars saga – that’s all six films, covering the “Holy” and “Other” trilogies – will be re-released to cinemas converted into the de rigeur 3D format beginning in 2012 […]

I’ve always felt that one of the hoariest old cliches in the coverage/discussion of Star Trek, lazily trotted out with tiresome regularity, was that ludicrous “theory” that stated that even-numbered Trek movies were “good” and odd-numbered Trek movies were “bad”. Obviously, last year’s masterful and hugely-exciting reboot, the eleventh in the cinematic Treks, has well and truly […]

Next Friday, I will be taking part in the “Kubrick Visions” Symposium, hosted by University of Hertfordshire’s School of Creative Arts and The St. Albans Museum. A rightful celebration and exploration of Hertfordshire’s most distinguished cinematic alumni – he lived in picturesque Childwickbury, just outside St.Albans for nearly 40 years –  the symposium, fully supported by […]

The Cannes Film Festival is currently in full swing and, apart from being the world’s most glamorous film festival, it’s also a place where the film industry indulges its penchant for hyperbole, self-congratulation and back-slapping to seemingly ever-greater heights. This year, however, there was a particularly surprising  and engrossing piece of unguarded honesty when Shia […]

You wouldn’t expect esteemed film industry magazine Variety to be the place where signs of The End Times are revealed in all their dreadful horror, but today’s edition might as well have been, offering up the frankly really rather depressing news that Lucasfilm Animation are developing an animated Star Wars comedy series. No, April Fool’s Day was last […]

My appearance on Press TV’s Cinepolitics show aired on Saturday, so here’s a stream of the show for interested parties. It’s not the best quality, but this was the embed that the Press TV site offered. I’ll see if I can get something better, but it’s sufficient enough for now… I was very pleased with […]

I simply cannot believe I never caught this before… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq5-6PkVGCg&feature=player_embedded Then again: perhaps my subconscious was shielding me from the mind-bending creepiness…

BEFORE SUNSET, Richard Linklater’s sublime 2004 sequel to his much loved indie hit BEFORE SUNRISE (1995), is one my favourite films. Aside from the fact that, like the first film, it massively appealed to my inner romantic, it’s a film that ‘spoke’ to me in a way that few other films have, given the circumstances […]

As James Cameron’s Avatar progressively rumbles towards beating Titanic’s worldwide box-office record of $1.8 billion, CNN writes of a slightly disturbing side-effect of the film’s globe-gobbling success. Apparently, Cameron’s beautifully-realised alien world of Pandora was so well realised, that some viewers are complaining of depression emerging from the realisation that it doesn’t exist. On the […]

Well, this is a very suitable first post for my blog…! Entertainment news outlets are currently buzzing with the stunning – if not exactly surprising –  news that Sony are intending to re-boot their prized Spider-Man franchise in 2012. In the last few weeks, there have been many rumours of a major spat between the franchise’s […]