Culture
/
Screenwriter

Donald Clarke

Whingeing about cinema and real life since 2009

Film of the Week

Tomorrow’s Ticket, Cinerama and the week’s culture nods.

This week’s soaraway Ticket comes packed with all your essential film needs. This writer talks to Brandon Cronenberg — son of David — about taking over the family business with the revolting (mostly in a good way) Antiviral. Tara Brady …

It’s Harry Potter Day. Boo! Boo!

Well, actually, round these parts, we tend to think of it as Uncle Boonmee Day. On the same date that the 124th Harry Potter film is unveiled in every cinema across the country (and every screen therein), Uncle Boonmee who …

Ho hum, it’s the end of the year.

After all the end-of-decade lists, our round-up of the best films from 2009 may seem like a little bit of an anti-climax. At any rate, today’s Ticket features a comprehensive analysis of what’s hot and what’s not from the big …

Elementary, my dear Trailerspotting.

Insofar as anything so grand as “controversy” can attach attach itself to the trailer-junkie community, some sort of, well, controversy has gathered round the promo for Guy Ritchie‘s upcoming assault on Sherlock Holmes. Recalling the whole Shutter Island furore, the …

Baldwin & Martin’s Laugh-In (And weekly notes)

So, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are to host the Oscars. Well, that’s almost interesting. Actually, there is something mildly intriguing about the fact that Dr Hfuhruhurr and Mr Conductor are now being flung together as a double act. Note …

What’s the film of the week? (And other questions)

I make it up as I go along, you know. Film of the week is Wes Anderson’s agreeably strange version of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox. It’s not all that faithful to the book and it’s maybe a little too …

Film of the week and stuff.

By the time this message manifests itself, you will have long ago digested your soaraway Ticket and pressed the paper (you do buy the print edition, don’t you?) into the base of a grateful budgie’s cage. My apologies. But, as …