Results tagged “Dennis Hopper” from Birmingham Mail - Mega Movies

THE cinema industry has always worked on a series of peaks and troughs.
But, just like there are times when we all need the fix of a big blockbuster like The Dark Knight, there are other weeks when film fans must wish the butter could be spread around a bit more.
This weekend, for example, features the release of Liam Neeson in the violent action thriller Taken.
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino play grizzled detectives in Righteous Kill.
Ed Harris, Jeremy Irons and Viggo Mortensen star in a rare western, Appaloosa.
Kevin Costner, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane and Stanley Tucci are all in political comedy Swing Vote.
And, if you still want more, there's David Mamet directing Chiwetel Ejiofor in Redbelt and even veteran producer Roger Corman is back, with Jason Statham starring in the Death Race remake.
That's six movies which many people would have a wide interest in.
But how many will be able to find the time to see all of them?
Several times a year I'll see half a dozen movies in a day at special events so it can be done - but those are organised without ads.
If you've never spent a day in a cinema seeing three movies back to back though, now's the weekend to give your 'mince pies' a treat just for fun.
It would certainly soon make a Cineworld Unlimited Card pay for itself.

APART from Saturday, May 10 it seems as if we've had a couple of months' worth of pretty poor Saturdays weatherwise.

None more so than today when you wouldn't have wanted to be getting married at 2pm.

And on FA Cup day as well.

But, if every cloud has a silver lining, then cinemas really ought to have been cashing in.

When the weather is this bad in mid May, where better to be than in a darkened theatre joining the world of pure escapism?

Happy birthday today to Blue Velvet and Easy Rider star Dennis Hopper - still looking good at the age of 72 and with more than half a dozen projects currently on the go after a career spanning everything from Rebel Without a Cause to Apocalypse Now, Speed and Waterworld.

Shame he hasn't been more high profile though for so long.

Did you know... Dennis Hopper once came to the old Triangle Cinema at Aston University and the Mail has a picture of him there?

Photosales could probably sell you a copy if you asked to be put through via our switchboard - 0121 236 3366.

Now, of course, this cinema is just a car park... demolished like too many other useful buildings in Brum but that's another story (like my piece about Hall Green's Highfield House in today's Mail).

ARE foreign actresses sexier when they are speaking in their native tongue?

Or is it more exciting hearing them in English with a twist?
In the case of Penelope Cruz, she's been much better in Spanish movies like All About My Mother and Volver than English-speaking dramas like Vanilla Sky, Captain Corelli's Mandolin and the appalling Woman on Top.
The former squeeze of Tom Cruise has been around a while now, so it's surprising to realise that today is still only her 34th birthday.
Look out for Cruz this August in a film called Elegy.
Based on a novel by Philip Roth (The Human Stain) and directed by Isabel Coixet, it's about a student having a sexual effect on a teacher.
The cast is an interesting mix.
It includes Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper, Deborah Harry (Blondie) and Ben Kingsley.