Celebriel writes: Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Psychology Today reports that watching Viggo Mortensen and Liv Tyler in Lord of the Rings can make our husbands and wives look all too schlumpy. [More]
Category: Old Main News
Celebriel forwards a Wellington Dominion Post article identifying A US computer chip company and a Canadian biotech firm as the first international clients for WETA‘s New Zealand Computing Centre, formed in partnership with Telcom subsidiary Gen-i in September 2004. The downtown Wellington center is the largest commercially-available supercomputing cluster in the southern hemisphere – offering the power of about 9000 PCs. [More]
Wellington film-maker Fran Walsh now has a Grammy to keep her three Oscar statuettes company. Walsh shared a Grammy with composer Howard Shore and singer Annie Lennox for the song Into the West from Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King. The trio scooped the best song written for a motion picture, television or other visual media category at the top American music awards show in Los Angeles last night. [More]
Kirk Honeycutt from the Hollywood Reporter writes: “Asylum” is a psychological thriller without bothering much with psychology. Come to think of it, the thrills are pretty much missing as well. Director David MacKenzie, who received critical plaudits in some quarters in 2003 for “Young Adam,” has thoroughly consulted the Alfred Hitchcock playbook to create the atmosphere and suspense for this tale of (literally) mad love. Certainly Mark Mancina’s score, reminiscent of Bernard Herrmann’s scores for the late master, and numerous images want to put audiences in a Hitchcock frame of mind. It’s hard, however, to imagine Hitchcock even raising an eyebrow over this weak story. [More]
Christopher Lee will attend the “Cinema for Peace” gala at the Berlin Film Festival today (Feb 14). He is participating in this event for the third time in as many years . [BIFF]
Jacquie writes: Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, Kiran Shah and Bruce Spence will be attending CollectorMania 7 in Milton Keynes, UK – 29th April to 2nd May 2005. [More]