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Raiding The Lost Ark: Part Two

ike a kid before Christmas, Jamie Benning can’t wait to unwrap his latest present, his filmumentary Raiding The Lost Ark. Unfortunately it looks as though we may have to wait until after Christmas to see it in ...

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Guilty Pleasures: Purple Rain

eorge Orwell was wrong. 1984 wasn’t the year of Big Brother, it was the year of the little brother from Minneapolis, Prince. After the talented one had been toiling in the trenches (surprised anyone could see him down t...

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Billy Wilder’s Top 10 Screenwriting Tips

n the book Conversations With Wilder, Hollywood’s legendary writer / director spoke candidly with young turk Cameron Crowe about his lengthy career. As a contract writer at Paramount Studios, Wilder had grown disenchante...

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Raiding The Lost Ark: A Filmumentary Pt. 1

reviously we interviewed Jamie Benning about his amazing filmumentary Star Wars Begins, and its companions Building Empire and Returning To Jedi. We are delighted to report that Jamie is on the cusp of releasing another ama...

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Unsung Heroes: Extra Relish

n the summer of 1995, the cry went out for unpaid volunteers to swell the ranks of crowds for Neil Jordan’s epic drama Michael Collins. Thousands heeded the call, and I, dear reader, was one of them. On leave from work ...

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From Titanic To Tinseltown: Belfast’s Painthall Studios

he Painthall of the former Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast’s Queen’s Island is the immense construction where workers once painted component parts of majestic liners such as the Olympic and the Titanic. Out ...

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Scene Is Believing: Touch Of Evil

“All border towns bring out the worst in a country.” – Vargas o mark the release of Orson Welles’ 1958 classic Touch Of Evil on Blu Ray this month (in three different versions, people!), Scene Is Believ...

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The Latest Hobbit Set Video Blog

eter Jackson has released another behind the scenes set blog for The Hobbit via his Facebook page, this time focusing on the 3d process involved in shooting the 2 part story digitally at 48 frames per second. In a fascin...

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Bond #23 Press Conference: Details Revealed

0 years to the day since Sean Connery was announced as the first cinematic incarnation of Ian Fleming’s secret agent, James Bond 007, EON Productions held a press conference this morning to announce details of the next J...

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Shanghai Surprise: The Movie That Hobbled Handmade Films

Handmade Films decided in 1986 that what they needed next was a screwball comedy with some star wattage. What they got was the screwup that was Shanghai Surprise, a vanity project for Madonna and her then husband Sean Penn. Tim...

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Scene Is Believing: Jurassic Park

Tim Pelan makes no sudden movements as he examines the iconic Tyrannosaurus Rex scene in Jurassic Park

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Amazing Alternate Movie Posters

f you despair at the general paucity of imagination that goes into modern movie posters, or simply hanker after an imaginative twist on some classics, fear not. There is a treasure trove of alternate posters out there, eithe...

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