The Dossing Times

These are credit sequences as opposed to opening sequences or scenes. Credits must appear on screen. And as this list was arrived at in conjunction with Simon I have elected to not include Superman, for fear of rolling eyes. And the list:
6. A production of itself and setting a high musical standard with Buffalo Springfield, [...]

Set a light by a starry cast and looking to an infamous character for inspiration, ‘Public Enemies’ was the movie primed to save the summer. The movie had the furthest to fall and unfortunately the finished product never ratchets close to the similarly themed ‘Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’ nor delivers [...]

There can’t but be anticipation that this could be great and the trailer certainly helps, though I do have reservations about trailers that show as much as this one does. Set aside the opinion you may have formed of Christian Bales behaviour and relish the prospect of him co-starring with Johnny Depp in a depression [...]

We might just have the first contender for movie of the year in ‘Let the Right One In’. Early 80s, Stockholm is blanketed in snow. An atypical friendship develops between a 12 year old boy and his new neighbour, a girl with the physical appearance of a young girl, but the deathly palour and aversion [...]

Gabriel Byrne won a Golden Globe in the early weeks of 2009 for this HBO show, which is another entry in the output of this cable network that sets it apart from, well, anything else on television. Byrne plays a therapist and each episode focuses on one therapy session. The show will play 5 nights [...]

Thursday evening and as occured many an evening ‘Scrubs’ was my salvation. Miserable day, miserable week, a combination of channels let me watch a good 2 hours of the show, episodes from either end of its run, their quality testifying to the shows almost flawless run. Todays topic for Top 6 became clear. This show [...]

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are working together to deliver a trilogy of Tintin movies in the next 5 years. The movies will be shot using motion-capturing – think ‘Beowolf’ or ‘Polar Express’. The cast already included British lumanaries such as Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Daniel Craig. Today comes the news that Jamie Bell, [...]

As the dust settles following the nominations, two moe Irish names have emerged amongst the contenders for Oscar. Irish producer Redmond Morris has been nominated for his work in ‘The Reader’ – while the film is being admonished for being undeserving of a Best Picture nomination, should they receive the award it is the producers [...]

So lets start with the good:
Heath Ledger, Best Supporting Actor for ‘The Dark Knight’ is not surprising, but very welcome. This category threw up the best surprise for me in the form of a nomination for Robert Downey Jnr. in ‘Tropic Thunder’ – its an all too rare sign of humour and a broad range [...]