Donald Clarke

3-D is doomed (yet again)

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• April 16, 2013, 22:13

Another report has detailed static takings for 3-D films. Does it mean anything?

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• November 21, 2010, 21:02

We are progressing into the last lap of the race for 2010 box-office champ. At time of writing, three days after the most Potterific candidate opened, Toy Story 3 still sits at the top. The latest Pixar film just squeezed …

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• January 31, 2010, 22:22

Hello. Billy the Fish here with his final attempt to guess Tuesday’s Oscar nominations. As we seek to anticipate the Academy’s shortlist for best picture, a strange revelation sets in. When, last summer, it was announced that the powers that …

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• January 26, 2010, 23:25

At the time of the 1987 British general election, I was living in London — in Mrs Thatcher‘s constituency, in fact — and, like many of my Guardian-reading friends, greatly appreciated a cartoon that appeared in that paper the day …

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• January 12, 2010, 22:46

Viz comic used to great mileage from the fact that, as the editors saw it, nobody cared much for Fulchester goalkeeper Billy the Fish. His exploits were often accompanied by copy such as “the strip everybody hates” or “everyone’s least …

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• December 15, 2009, 17:25

I sense that awards fatigue is already setting in among readers, so I’ll just offer a brief paragraph on the announcement of the Golden Globe nominations this afternoon. There weren’t many surprises and our pointers towards the Oscars — for …

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• December 13, 2009, 22:23

Back in the summer, the Academy surprised virtually everybody by announcing that the number of nominations for the best picture Oscar was to go up from five to ten. The strategy was not hard to discern: as less mainstream films …

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• November 1, 2009, 23:55

Now that’s what I call a 3-D movie. There is, sadly, no way around it. The return of 3-D is one of the big  stories of the cinematic decade. Though only around 20 percent of Irish screens showing films available …