Donald Clarke

• Let the Right One In Trailerspotting
• July 29, 2010, 15:46

The question is prompted by the release of the first trailer for Matt Reeves’s remake of Let the Right One In. The Swedish vampire movie, made in 2008, but released here last year, proved very popular with the Screenwriter community. …

• Moaning
• July 27, 2010, 22:43

I don’t expect you to know the answer. But the question is not exactly rhetorical either. I genuinely want to know where the blasted thing has got to. If you are not in the  loop, The Tree of Life is …

• Sherlock Holmes Television
• July 24, 2010, 17:27

And why should he? Throughout the entire history of cinema, film-makers have enjoyed playing with the persona of Arthur Conan-Doyle’s cerebral, faintly demented private detective. The Internet Movie Database lists a truly impressive 231 film and TV projects featuring Holmes …

• Best-of lists Inception
• July 21, 2010, 18:54

If you go to the cinema more than once every two months and you own a computer then you will almost certainly have visited the Internet Movie Database. In the unstable digital multiverse, IMDb — initiated a quite staggering 21 …

• Uncategorized
• July 19, 2010, 12:39

An interesting one this. If you only read The Irish Times and only watch RTE and the BBC you might look at the above headline and reply: “What indeed? He is the star of the excellent Mad Max films. He …

• Box Office Figures
• July 16, 2010, 20:16

Much as we keyboard-thumpers like to think otherwise, strong reviews have only a modest effect on the performance of a motion picture. The figures show — if you are interested — that, whereas good notices have a pretty direct correlation …

• Uncategorized
• July 6, 2010, 22:11

…was in June 1978. Gosh it seems like a long time ago. You’re the One That I Want was at number one in the UK charts and — you’re way ahead of me — Grease was the big movie on …

• Uncategorized
• July 4, 2010, 22:04

When Gloria Stuart was cast as a 100-year-old version of Kate Winslet in James Cameron’s (let’s face the truth) useless Titanic, there may, perhaps, have been rumblings in the Society of Thespian Centurions. After all, Ms Stuart was, at that …