Donald Clarke

This year everybody is assaulting the White House

• Hell Trailerspotting
• March 21, 2013, 21:47

White House Down and Olympus has Fallen both see the President under attack from pesky terrorists.

• Hell
• July 17, 2012, 17:40

Well, that was timely. I was halfway through a piece for Friday’s Ticket — miss it at your peril — on the rise of the internet hyper-fan as it relates to The Dark Knight Rises when a more than usually …

• Hell Horror Posters
• March 5, 2012, 22:50

In the unlikely event that it cares, the Vatican will be happy to hear that I have not yet seen the film that it doesn’t want me to see. I have, however, seen the poster. The Devil Inside is a …

• Box Office Figures Hell Horror
• February 6, 2012, 22:04

Here’s an odd one. Every now and then, some distributor will fail to screen a film for the press in this territory. More often than not the movie will be shown to our cousins across the Irish Sea. A good …

• Hell
• January 29, 2012, 22:08

Well, that’s my guess. There have been few more peculiar examples of the gossip machine working in overdrive than the recent minor furore surrounding Liam Neeson’s imminent conversion to Islam. Here’s what happened. The great man, currently an unlikely action hero, …

• Best-of lists Hell Moaning
• April 19, 2011, 22:30

It’s not the silly season yet, so don’t take the question too seriously. Obviously, it’s always good fun to attach that title to something that people really love. If I want to annoy students, I generally suggest that the worst …

• Hell
• March 20, 2011, 21:46

Has ever a supposed genius (more anon) had such a run of debacles as has Julie Taymor? It’s nearly a decade since Taymor, a director of theatre, film and opera, delivered the perfectly decent Frida. A biopic of Frida Kahlo, …

• Hell
• January 20, 2011, 12:05

I cant beleeve it. Chrstopher Nowlan has cast Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in his follow up to what all cool critics say is the gr8test film of all time. this an outrage . She is three inches shorter than Selina …