April 2012
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25 best movie remakes →
This week’s big Stuff.tv movie list feature, to which I contributed, is a run-through of the 25 best remakes ever. Remakes get a bit of a bad rap among film fans – it’s unimaginative, they say, or it’s an attempt to trade on name recognition. Fair enough, I think. Hollywood’s a business, and if name recognition will get a few more bums on seats, then it’s all to...
Apr 30th
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A Stitch in Time on ShortsTV!
A bit of news – my short film A Stitch In Time has been picked up for distribution by Shorts International, and is now available to view on ShortsTV as part of the Shorts Midnight strand. So A Stitch In Time is doing the rounds of American TV, where it will hopefully entertain someone in the wee hours with its excursion into the realms of quantum physics and haberdashery.
Apr 16th
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Batman Returns
Well, it’s been a while – but OD on Films is back up and running. I’m currently writing for Stuff.tv, writing about gadgets and gizmos – and, periodically, films. Among the film-related pieces I’ve written recently is a look at Tim Burton’s Batman Returns (1992), in which Michael Keaton’s Batman tangles with Danny DeVito’s Penguin and Michelle Pfeiffer’s...
Apr 16th