By Simon Miraudo December 10, 2013 There’s nothing quite as “inside baseball” as movies about the movie-making process (except, I suppose, movies about the intricacies of baseball). John Lee Hancock‘s Saving Mr. Banks takes us behind the scenes and into the Walt Disney sausage factory, where P.L. Travers’ beloved novel Mary Poppins was adapted into a Hollywood […]
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Play It Again – Love Actually
November 20, 2013 
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By Jess Lomas November 20, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line (hey, whatever; […]
Continue reading‘Saving Mr. Banks’ can’t show Walt Disney smoking
November 18, 2013 0 Comments
At a gala screening of Saving Mr. Banks over the weekend, the filmmakers explained why they were unable to showcase Walt Disney’s intense addiction to tobacco: it’s due to Disney studios’ somewhat ironic ‘no smoking’ rules. The flick concerns Walt’s (Tom Hanks) efforts to score the Mary Poppins rights from author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson). Director John Lee Hancock […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Saving Mr. Banks
July 16, 2013 0 Comments
The first trailer for Saving Mr. Banks has been released and it looks simply supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Tom Hanks plays the man behind the mouse, Walt Disney, on a mission to fulfil a 20-year-old promise to his daughters: to turn their favourite book, Mary Poppins, into a film. The only thing standing in his way? The book’s […]
Continue readingFirst look at Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks
July 11, 2013 0 Comments
Here is your first look at Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as author P.L. Travers in the upcoming film Saving Mr. Banks. The film tells the true tale of Disney’s efforts to bring Travers’ tale Mary Poppins to the big screen; their difficult relationship almost threatening to derail the project. Considering the […]
Continue readingWill Gluck directing Annie reboot; Willow Smith walks away
February 1, 2013 0 Comments
Annie is heading back to the big screen and director Will Gluck will help usher the pint sized orphan into the modern world, Deadline reports. Just don’t expect Willow Smith to take on the lead role… Gluck (Easy A, Friends with Benefits) will helm the reimagining of the Broadway musical for Sony Pictures, and James […]
Continue readingBeautiful, if not so bold – Brave review
June 20, 2012 2 Comments
Brave – Featuring the voices of Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, and Billy Connolly. Directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman. Rated PG. Originally published June 12, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Disney Pixar’s Brave is the powerhouse studio’s first non-sequel since 2009, and a marked improvement over Cars 2 (their first legitimately bad endeavour). Though it features some of the most exquisite animation ever put to film, it falls […]
Continue readingBeautiful, if not so bold – Brave review (Sydney Film Festival)
June 12, 2012 3 Comments
Brave – Featuring the voices of Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, and Billy Connolly. Directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman. Rated PG. By Simon Miraudo. Brave played the Sydney Film Festival. It opens in Australia June 21, 2012. Disney Pixar’s Brave is the powerhouse studio’s first non-sequel since 2009, and a marked improvement over Cars […]
Continue readingOut of time – Men in Black 3 review
May 21, 2012 1 Comment
Men in Black 3 – Starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Josh Brolin. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Men in Black 3 comes ten years after Men in Black 2, and fifteen years after the first instalment. In it, Agent J (Will Smith) travels back in time to 1969, where […]
Continue readingTom Hanks might play Walt Disney in Mary Poppins making of
April 10, 2012 0 Comments
Tom Hanks is considering portraying Walt Disney in the ‘making of Mary Poppins‘ dramedy Saving Mr. Banks, Deadline reports. The film will tell of Walt’s 14-year attempt at convincing Aussie author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to make a movie from her series of children’s books. Travers’ tale was highly personal, hence her hesitation to hand […]
Continue readingCarey Mulligan to star in My Fair Lady?
March 26, 2010 0 Comments
An Education star Carey Mulligan is set to play Eliza Doolittle in the long-touted My Fair Lady remake being penned by Emma Thompson. Maybe. Thompson herself told BBC News that Mulligan had scored the role made famous by Audrey Hepburn in the original 1964 film (based on the 1956 Broadway musical starring Julie Andrews, itself […]
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