Blog posts by year and monthSeptember 2009
Posts (13)
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 ...
5Live Review: The Soloist
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews The Soloist. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
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?
Repeating on me
Having disgorged my own views about food on film I'm delighted to see that some of you have lapped them up and served me a plateful of your own, in response to which I'll begin by saying that yes indeed I have considered the ethical dimensions of eating live cephalopods for entertainment purposes....
5 Live Review: Gamer
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Gamer. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
Cost report
Whether you're watching the latest bazillion dollar epic or a tuppence ha'penny George Romero tribute flick, is it the money that makes a movie money?
That's wittertainment
My Friday afternoon movie sparring partner Simon Mayo is leaving his 5 live slot for Radio 2 where he takes over from Chris Evans. But what of him and me, us, of you and wittertainment? Well, we have an announcement on that too...
Screening Process
More great stuff from you including some of your most aposite movie venues, and a quick update on the Bride Wars challenge: it's genuine alright, but I do believe some of you need a quick reminder of the working parameters.
5 Live Review: Adventureland
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Adventureland, the latest film from 'Superbad' Director, Greg Mottola. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
Bring Me My Garmonbozia
Watching other people chow down may be fun for chefs and doting mothers but on the big screen it can sometimes turn a critic's tummy. And in cinema's kitchen none have tweaked the emetics so deliberately as these, my Top Ten Eat to the Beat movie moments.