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UK digital channel More4 is going to screen Death of a President next month and will make its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 10th. Written and directed by Gabriel Range it is a fictional film done in the style of a documentary about the assassination of the current US president. Media Guardian [...]

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Joseph Stefano, the man who wrote the screenplay for the Hitchcock classic Psycho, has passed away. This report from the AP:
Joseph Stefano, who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” and was co-creator of television’s science fiction anthology series “The Outer Limits,” has died. He was 84.
Stefano died Aug. 25 at Los Robles Hospital [...]

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There is now a blog dedicated to film trailer mashups called The Trailer Mash and it features some excellent examples of the genre. The Shining recut as a romantic comedy is still probably the funniest but there is some great new stuff on there, especially Lost reimagined as The A Team (!) and Garden [...]

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Three years ago one of the finest dramas in recent years hit TV screens in the UK. The Deal was scripted by Peter Morgan and directed by Stephen Frears and dramatised the relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as they reformed the Labour Party and jostled for the position of leader. It could have [...]

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This week on the Movie-Cast we take a look at two big cinema releases: Owen Wilson’s latest comedy vehicle You, Me and Dupree and Pedro Almodovar’s latest film Volver.
Our DVD picks are the Caddyshack boxset and an overlooked drama from 1989 called Jacknife which stars Robert De Niro and Ed Harris.
The website of the week [...]

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