Articles by James Keast

The Passenger

Michelangelo Antonioni

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

In his commentary on this 1975 film, star Jack Nicholson explains in his gruff voice that this belongs to a world of art-house cinema no lo...

Nochnoi Dozor (Night Watch)

Timur Bekmambetov

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

Nochnoi Dozor, called Night Watch in North America, is the first part of a trilogy that, upon its release in 2004, became the biggest box o...

Network

Sidney Lumet

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

Watching the 1976 film Network 20 years later is a stark lesson in perspective. At the time, the shockingly good film was an over-the-top s...

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Nick Park and Steve Box

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

Pixar Studios (Finding Nemo) and British-based plasticine animators Aardman Entertainment (Chicken Run) are making the very highest standar...

Writer, Thinker, Creator, Destroyer

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

I feel like Dan Bejar's perfect foil, setting the rules that he can refuse to play by. I've offered his Destroyer project the cover of Excl...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Frances Alcock and John Irvin

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

To reveal how television has changed in the last 35 years, one need only take a look at the acclaimed BBC adaptation of John Le Carré's Tin...

Ultimate Avengers

Bob Richardson

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

Marvel Comics launches its own internal film division with this straight-to-DVD animated feature, based on the re-launched Avengers comic T...

Chappelle's Blacklist

CONSPIRACY

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

Rampant rumours of mental breakdown and drug addiction greeted the announcement that comedy superstar Dave Chappelle would not complete the...