Donald Clarke

• Video Games
• November 27, 2011, 22:43

Nothing cheers the soul more than baldy geezers fulminating about the threat posed to society by video games. When such scares come along one can’t help but think back to the horror-comic panic of the 1950s or the great Hula …

• Uncategorized
• November 23, 2011, 11:31

A case could be made that the most ludicrous of all the ludicrous Oscar categories is the best foreign language race. Indeed, I have outlined that argument in this place on several occasions. But, in recent years, the documentary competition …

• Film Festivals
• November 15, 2011, 19:16

The Corona Cork Film Festival came to a close on Sunday with the handing out of prizes to a wide and varied array of short films. Among the prizewinners was Phil Harrison’s very touching Even Gods. The picture follows an …

• Uncategorized
• November 13, 2011, 21:01

Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights has stirred up a fair degree of critical noise. Quite a few pundits adore the thing. Plenty others find its stripped-down aesthetic a little too austere. One (ahem, ahem) aspect of the picture that has, however, …

• Oscars
• November 10, 2011, 22:39

Apologies for the silence of a late. The Corona Cork Film Festival intervened and I found it difficult to get to this corner of the computer. If you are anywhere near that great city, be aware that this venerable event …

• James Bond Uncategorized
• November 3, 2011, 22:06

The Bond films are perhaps the only movies that can generate press conferences a whole year before release. Earler today, Daniel Craig (current 007), Judi Dench (ongoing M) and Sam Mendes (upmarket director) gathered in the Corinthia Hotel to announce …