Topic: Alec Guinness

Milestone or Millstone

This month something happened to me that had never happened before. Absolutely unprecedented. "Infinitely" is one of our most abused adverbs ...
To promote the new Kinect Star Wars game for the Xbox, ad agency AKQA reshot the famous light sabre duel scene between Obi-Wan Ben Kenobi and Darth...

Movie review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Bleak, intricate and intriguing, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - the first film of John le Carre's 1974 spy novel - is a quagmire of skulduggery that ...

Classic Le Carre spy novel gets movie makeover

VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Author John Le Carre's 1974 espionage classic "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" finally gets the big screen treatment, with Gary Oldman as George Smiley charged with rooting out a mole in British intelligence.Taking on the part comes with ...

Fall indie lineup features 7 stand out films

0 . A list of fall indies that starts with Almodovar makes you forget that Allen doesn't have a film out this season. This fall's collection is...

'The Bridge on the River Kwai' on Blu-ray review

0 View Larger Image . . . David Lean's first epic, written by blacklisted writers Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman and based on a Pierre Boulle ...
Almost all of us have had at least one recurring dream. Sometimes I would fly to different places around Florida including Silver Springs, Indian Rocks Beach, Yeehaw Junction and other places where I had happy experiences. Once in a while I would ...

TV Commercials you love to hate

Honestly, if I hear that " If you watch the Super Bowl, or any other major event, like the Oscars, you know that ad agencies trot out their best and brightest and most entertaining 30-second spots (sometimes they are going to 20s). I ...
The Lavender Hill mob is yet another charming black and white comedy from the British, Ealing Studios. Alec Guinness plays a typical ,gentlemanly, bank clerk of the 1950's, called Henry Holland. Alec Guinness was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading ...
This, to many fans is one of the classic movies, a reminder of heroes bravery during the dark days of World War two. " I've got to admit, the whistling and marching to the films famous tune at the start as Alec ...