Month: August 2010
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Operation Transformation Mobs Canada
There was an article this week on iftn (read it here) about all the work Abu Media had coming up. It had this to say about the upcoming Mobs Canada series ‘Mobs Canada’ a 6 x 30 minute historical documentary series will focus on Irish Canadian Mobsters. The series will start shooting around Ireland and…
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If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise
Spike Lee is quite possibly my favourite director, when it doesn’t work for him it really doesn’t work and he has made some real stinkers. But along the way he has made some of the greatest films of all time, Do The Right Thing, Clockers, Malcolm X and his undoubted masterpiece, one of the most…
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The Rocketeer
When I was 11 this was my favourite film in the world, I came upon this aricle by Geoff Boucher on the LA-Times blogs about the film and had to repost it. “The Rocketeer” was a valentine to the old movie serials but in a way, the 1991 Disney film was also ahead of its…
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Roger Corman on DVD
Roger Corman — often referred to as the “King of the B Movie” — is something of a Hollywood legend, famous for making low-budget cult horror films like Piranha and Little Shop of Horrors. But Corman has also mentored many now-famous directors — including Martin Scorsese, James Cameron and Ron Howard — and employed many…
John Murphy 