By Simon Miraudo March 8, 2013 For the 100th episode of The (Pod) Casting Couch, I was asked to compile my ten favourite movie moments of all time. As someone who has devoted a lifetime to the pictures, that’s quite an ask. However, as an obsessive, list-making loser, it was also a dream come true. […]
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The top 10 film scores
September 14, 2012 
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The top 10 film scores. By Simon Miraudo. Beasts of the Southern Wild features one of the year’s best – and, this is important, most hummable – musical scores, co-composed by director Benh Zeitlin and Dan Romer. Aural accompaniment can greatly enhance one’s experience of watching a film (or perhaps distract to its detriment), and […]
Continue readingGodfather prequel to be published amid lawsuit controversy
May 14, 2012 0 Comments
Representatives of the two major families, that of Paramount Pictures and Mario Puzo’s estate, have met and come to an agreement regarding the publication of a prequel to The Godfather. Back in February, Paramount sued the Puzos for attempting to publish The Family Corleone, a prequel to the late Mario’s legendary tome, without seeking their approval. The studio […]
Continue readingThe top 10 movie idiots
March 16, 2012 2 Comments
The top 10 movie idiots. By Simon Miraudo. “Stupid is as stupid does,” Forrest Gump once cautioned a nation, and he was right. There’s a fine history of fools in cinema, and Paul Rudd‘s Ned from Our Idiot Brother (out this week on DVD and Blu-ray) joins that dim-witted pantheon. To celebrate his well-meaning stupidness, […]
Continue readingParamount sues Puzo estate over new Godfather novels
February 22, 2012 1 Comment
Paramount and Mario Puzo’s estate are going to the mattresses over a contentious new Godfather novel. According to Bloomberg, Paramount Pictures is suing Anthony Puzo for attempting to publish a sequel to his father Mario’s legendary novel The Godfather. Mario Puzo’s original text was the basis of Francis Ford Coppola‘s feature film adaptation, considered one of the greatest […]
Continue readingCould a prequel to The Godfather be in the works?
May 6, 2011 1 Comment
Maybe! Mario Puzo, author of bestseller The Godfather and Oscar-winning screenwriter of Francis Ford Coppola’s film adaptations, had been working on a prequel script called The Family Corleone before his death in 1999. The Puzo estate has finally authorised writer Ed Falco to turn the 1930s-set screenplay into a book, which would follow Don Vito Corleone’s […]
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