BBC - Kermode Uncut Blog http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/ Kermode Uncut: Mark Kermode's film blogOutspoken, opinionated and never lost for words, Mark Kermode is the UK's leading film critic.He is resident film critic on Radio Five Live's Mayo Show and on the News Channel, is a presenter on The Culture Show and often appears on Newsnight Review.This twice-weekly video blog is the place where he airs his personal views on the things that most fire him up about cinema - and invites you to give your own opinions. en Copyright 2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:37:29 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The future of cinema: This Is It Michael Jackson has shown the way. Under the watchful eyes of the great Kenny Ortega (whose High School Musical series of movies are, as I have explained many times, the very definition of pure movie entertainment) the King of Pop has delivered unto us an all-singing, all-dancing saviour of cinema...

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]]> Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/11/the_future_of_cinema_this_is_i.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/11/the_future_of_cinema_this_is_i.html reviews Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:37:29 +0000 Twilight of the blogs Seems last week's Hallowe'en blog about Robert Pattinson, Stephen Moyer, Brad Pitt and all those other sexy creatures of the night got your collective blood up, so after swift reflection (if not in mirrors) you bit back with the vampire movies that have possessed you including Salem's Lot, Dreyer's Vampyr, George Romero's Martin, and the much gorged on Near Dark, which, as I shall explain, changed my life. It's nice to know you all feel you have a stake in this blog and for that I'd like to fang you (That's enough bleeding vampires, Ed.)

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]]> Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/11/twilight_of_the_blogs.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/11/twilight_of_the_blogs.html reviews Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:18:30 +0000 The ten-second vampire movie So it's true: the undead really are. Since Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee first donned Dracula's wardrobe, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise have chugged romantic gore in Ann Rice's Interview with a Vampire and even Eddie Murphy blooded himself as a Vampire in Brooklyn. But this year has seen a rhesus positive infestation with Stephen Moyer in True Blood and Robert Pattinson in Twilight representing only the fang tips of a blood sucking army that includes representatives from as far away as Korea and Denmark. So why can't we resist vampires? And more to the point, how do you get to be one? Now Halloween is here, allow me to explain...

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]]> Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/the_tensecond_vampyre_movie.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/the_tensecond_vampyre_movie.html reviews Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:33:49 +0000 The second second time around So Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch are the directors whose work troubles you enough to demand more than a single viewing, but really, just how many times does anyone need to see Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd in Anchorman? For some, more than you'd think. Also this week, the very last word on Jennifer Aniston's face...

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]]> Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/post.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/post.html reviews Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:38:04 +0000 Trailer Treachery Whether using the popular visages of Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell to promote The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus or a night vision shot of a movie audience launching its popcorn in the air to demonstrate how terrified everyone will be when they see Paranormal Activity (the new "scariest movie ever"), trailers are there to let you know exactly what you'll be spending your movie ticket money on. So what exactly is going on in the trailer for the new movie version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road?

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]]> Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/trailer_treachery.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/trailer_treachery.html reviews Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:18:11 +0000 Jen Again The path from small screen to big screen is littered with disasters (and let's not even mention Jennifer Aniston's Friends co-alumni), but you, the staunch and loyal movie going Kermode Uncut bloggers, have identified many without whom our movie viewing lives would be infinitely the poorer...

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]]> Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/jen_again.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/jen_again.html reviews Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:10:41 +0000 The Revisitations of Doctor Kermode There are some films, like Heath Ledger's last movie The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (also starring Jude Law, Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp and directed by Python genius Terry Gilliam), that definitely warrant a second viewing to solidify or adjust a critic's first appraisal. Others just go to show that seeing them once was more than enough...

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]]> Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/the_revisitations_of_doctor_ke.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/the_revisitations_of_doctor_ke.html reviews Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:07:17 +0000 Big Budget Catastrophes of Pure Joy Some of you objected to my choice of Howard the Duck as the greatest big budget movie disaster of all time but among your own selections, which include Sharon Stone's mighty Basic Instinct 2 and Bruce Willis's ineffable Hudson Hawk, are salutary lessons about the permeability of the membrane between bad and good.

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]]> Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/big_budget_catastrophes_of_pur.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/big_budget_catastrophes_of_pur.html reviews Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:26:48 +0000 When paying higher taxes really pays off Within the black umbra of the world economic collapse, film industry finance hasn't had it so bad for years. So how will the new 50 per cent tax threshold affect those working in the industry? Well, at least for one filmmaker, in a surprisingly satisfactory way and with a possible entente cordiale at the end of it.

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]]> Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/when_paying_higher_taxes_reall.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/when_paying_higher_taxes_reall.html reviews Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:38:43 +0000 From Back to the Future to the Piano... You hum it and I'll play it

So you like Joy Division in Control and Jeremy Northam at Gosford Park but Michael J Fox on stage in Back to the Future movies stirs up all kinds of reactions. And what about all those accordion movies, eh?

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]]> Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/invention_of_lying.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/invention_of_lying.html 5 live Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:58:36 +0000 What Jennifer Aniston's Best Friends won't tell her


]]> Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/what_jennifer_anistons_best_fr.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/10/what_jennifer_anistons_best_fr.html reviews Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:20:17 +0000 The Greatest Megabudget Movie Ever Made In this week's virtual mail bag of blog replies, the question of mammon and the movies has opened up a mine of conjecture regarding the budget versus creativity dynamic, and at your request I offer up my own candidate for the greatest ever multimillion dollar blockbuster. Feel free to volunteer your own... Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/09/the_greatest_megabudget_movie.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/09/the_greatest_megabudget_movie.html reviews Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:41:24 +0000 5Live Review: The Soloist
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews The Soloist.

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]]> Mark Kermode Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/09/5live_review_the_soloist.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/09/5live_review_the_soloist.html 5 live Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:38:39 +0000 Music Lesson In the week that brilliant musician Jamie Foxx plays a genius cellist abandoned by society in The Soloist, why is it that for me actors portraying musicians on film always strikes a bum note?

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