Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Running Time: 94 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: February 12th 2018 (UK)
Irrespective of anything else, Loving Vincent is an impressive achievement. It’s the world’s first animated movie that’s ‘fully painted’. In practice that means that the entire thing was filmed with actors and the using that footage it was later animated by a team of over 100 artists using oil paintings for both the characters and the background – and all done in the style of Vincent Van Gogh.
The film is set a year after Van Gogh’s death. Vincent’s friend from Arles, Postman Joseph Roulin (Chris O’Dowd), forces his slacker son, Armand (Douglas Booth), to hand deliver the artist’s final letter to his brother, Theo. After Armand discovers Theo is also dead, he travels on to the place where Vincent spent his final days, Auvers-sur-Oise, to see whether he should give the letter to the man who was supposed to be looking after him at the time, Dr. Gachet (Jerome Flynn). [Read more…]
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At the moment Canada’s Eric Radford is rightly being applauded for being the first officially ‘out’ person to win a Winter Olympic Gold Medal (in the team figure skating). However, back in 1976 there was John Curry, who became European, World and Olympic champion in the same year he was outed by a German newspaper. I meant that while he may not have opted to for his sexuality to be made public, when he took home the Olympic Gold Medal, he became to first person to do so at a time it was known he was gay.
Andrew Garfield sparked a backlash (from the more easily scandalised part of the LGBT world) when he joked that he was ‘gay man right now, just without the physical act’. Quite how vociferously angry some peope were could have resulted in Garfield being a lot more guarded, but it doesn’t seem to have had that effect. Indeed, he seems to want to put things in further context.
At one point Amy Schumer was going to play a Barbie who wasn’t beautiful enough for Barbie-land. Now she’s coming at a similar theme from a different angle with I Feel Pretty.
Kids who grew up in Britain from the late 60s through the 80s (and beyond after he was periodically reintroduced) will know the Action Man, which were literally the UK version of America’s GI Joe. Now the toy line is getting its own movie, with The Muppets and Alice Through The Looking Glass helmer James Bobin set to direct.
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There are still plenty of people wondering quite how they’re going to make a standalone Venom movie work, especially as while the character may be very popular in the Spider-man universe, he’s normally thought of as a villain. While the first teaser for the movie doesn’t fully explain how Tom Hardy and the alien symbiote will work together, it hints at a Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde vibe.
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By know we should expect any promo for a Deadpool movie to break the fourth wall, and make fun of the whole idea of superhero movies. The new trailer for Deadpool 2 doesn’t disappoint on that score, even breaking into a toy version of typical action film.
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