Musicians who can act are a select bunch. But David Bowie, whose unexpected death floored fans like me, leaves a substantial visual legacy as well as a musical one and managed to find a unique niche for himself in films.As a theatrical performer who constantly reinvented himself, the diagonal into cinema was natural.
Jim Morris and Dennis Quaid, who played him in "The Rookie." Both are Mean Dads, undoubtedly.
Plenty of Alan Rickman's costars have commented on the actor's death, but more tributes keep coming. Matthew Lewis , who played Neville Longbottom in the "Harry Potter" films, was the latest to speak out when he appeared on the Radio X Weekend Breakfast Show with Jon Holmes.
There is a captivating french film maker taking the world by storm and his name is Maxime Ginolin. Who is Maxime Ginolin? He is a film maker who has spent most of his life in Africa, facing injustice and poverty from a very early age.
Roman Polanski directed classic films such as Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby , but, since 1977, he's been in the news mainly for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in the United States - a charge to which he pleaded guilty - and then fleeing American justice to hide out in Europe, where authorities such as those in France have refused to extradite him. Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir , an interview conducted by his long-time friend and producer Laurent Bouzereau, took place in Switzerland in 2009, when he was under house arrest while the Swiss authorities debated whether to extradite him to the US.
SYNOPSIS: SYNCHRONICITY is a mind-bending 'Sci-fi Noir' in the tradition of Blade Runner, Gattaca and Memento. Daring physicist Jim Beale has invented a machine that can fold space-time and ruthless corporate tycoon Klaus Meisner will stop at nothing to get it.
In the realm of creepy-doll flicks, nothing tops Magic , director Richard Attenborough's riveting 1978 adaptation of William Goldman's novel about a psychotic ventriloquist. Compared to it, movies like The Boy are kids' stuff.
The 1979 movie Alien was famously advertised with the tagline "in space no one can hear you scream". Photo / Supplied It's a month since the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens , and for pedants there's much to find wrong with the Star Wars movies.
It was way back in 1991 that Rolfe Kanefsky made his directorial debut with There's Nothing Out There , a horror-comedy that was meta WAY before meta was cool. Kanefsky has continued making films all these years, and he just began production on his 20th feature.
