Films seen so far this year: 379
Films seen this week: Dean Spanley, ‘The Good, The Bad, The Weird’, Rachel Getting Married, Flick, Igor, The Project, 4th Man, Goliath, No Through Road, Gunnin' For That Number 1 Spot, City of Ember, Heavy Load, Mutant Chronicles, Religulous, Sex Drive, I Am Alive, Awaydays, Nights and Weekends, 1-2-3-4, Lazy Days, The Class, The Rind

Casting News Update
A couple of weeks ago, I posted some casting news about Guy Ritchie's upcoming Sherlock Holmes project and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Well, …

Films seen so far this year: 357
Films seen this week: The Fall, Cry Baby, Inkheart, Brideshead Revisited, Goodbye Solo, Eagle Eye, Ghost Town, Surveillance, Clubbed

RIP Paul Newman
Like film fans everywhere, I was saddened by the death of Paul Newman this week. At 83, he had built up a big screen career that spanned fifty years, from his breakthrough role in Somebody Up There Likes Me (a part he reputedly got because of the death of James Dean) right …

Films seen so far this year: 348
Films seen this week: The House Bunny, Fly Me To The Moon (3D), Righteous Kill, Swing Vote, Alexandra, Nights at Rodanthe

Casting news: Sherlock Holmes, The Lone Ranger and Alice in Wonderland
While scouring the film blogs to see if they've cast Captain America yet (they haven't), I came across the news from comingsoon.net that the lovely Rachel …

Films seen so far this year: 342
Films seen this week: Easy Virtue, Redbelt, Afro Saxons, 'Tis Autumn – The Search for Jackie Paris, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Zombie Strippers, Burn After Reading, Appaloosa, Choke, Incendiary, Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!

Clash of the Zombie Stripper Movies and Other Trends in DVD Marketing
This week, the superbly titled Zombie Strippers gets a limited theatrical release in the run-up to its DVD release on 13th October. This seems to be …

Films seen so far this year: 330
Films seen this week: Hamlet 2, 88 Minutes, Scar 3D, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, The Women, Partition, Lemon Tree, What Just Happened?

The London Line-up: London Film Festival 2008
This week I attended the press launch of the London Film Festival 2008, or, to give it its full title, The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival. This involves listening to a speech thanking a long list of often wildly incongruous …