Shooting From The Lip...

Joe O'Byrne looks at Film/TV/Theatre/Music/Art/Literature from a purely personal point of view. A Sawn Off Double Barrelled Mouth Piece of a column on what's good, what's bad and what's pushing me over the edge in the glad, mad and bad world of The Arts...2012 will be the year of 'Making A Noise...' be it pleasant or unpleasant. We are in the midst of dark times, the worst financially in generations. A world of self serving politicians, 'fiddling while Rome burns' bankers and hedge funders that have done more getting us into this mess than out of it. A world where the present leader of our government see's a couple of square miles of London's financial district as 'serving the Nation's (or his Political Party's) best interests'.


Will this impact on the world of the Arts? We already know it has and will continue to do so. But not just in a negative way...oh no. History has shown that periods of recession produce masterpieces in terms of the Arts. I'm looking forward to some fantastic work over the coming year(s). Be it good or bad, if it crosses my path I'll be aiming my Sawn Off Double Barrelled Mouth Piece at it...and shooting from the lip. http://www.lowtalesfromtheheights.blogspot.com/


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Friday 30 December 2011

Welcome To The Mad House...

THE IRON LADY



It's not 2012 yet and I've just seen a TV Trailer that is already calling the French (PATHE) Farce THE IRON LADY the film of 2012...what...? 

That's right - forget THE HOBBIT, THE AVENGERS, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, SKY FALL, J EDGAR, CORIOLANUS, WAR HORSE, PROMETHEUS, THE WOMAN IN BLACK, THE HUNGER GAMES, BRAVE, GANGSTER SQUAD, CLOUD ATLAS, LES MISERABLES, THE GREAT GATSBY, DJANGO UNCHAINED, LINCOLN, COGAN'S TRADE, SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS, WETTEST COUNTRY, DARK SHADOWS, WORLD WAR Z, NERO FIDDLED, GREAT HOPE SPRINGS, THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN, GAMBIT, ARGO, MOONRISE KINGDOM, ON THE ROAD, COSMOPOLIS, TOTAL RECALL, THE BURIAL, LOVE, THE END, SEVEN DAYS, THE ANGEL'S SHARE and LAY THE FAVOURITE to name - a lot - you guys may as well pack up shop and not bother distributing, the CLEAR winner is already here on the 6th January, 2012.

From the French PATHE and Film4, distributed here by American FOX - Oh yes, I forgot as a nation we don't have much of a distibution network or movie industry thanks to - oh - thanks to The Iron Lady herself among others - she put the final nail in the coffin with the termination of the Eady Levy in 1985. 

The woman who 'defied convention' (French translation  'defied the nation') has her very own shiney biopic.  'Where there is discord, may we bring Harmony Hairspray...' much of the 'Iron' being in that hairstyle.

It looks like a great 'who do you do' for Meryl Streep, it's the first in a franchise I hear to take on Marvel Pictures - a Super Zero franchise paving the way for a team up...next up we've got THE INCREDIBLE SULK (Nick Clegg) THE ARTFUL TAX DODGER (George Osborne) and a remake of LIAR, LIAR (David Cameron) Expect THE (SC)AVENGERS...sometime in the Mayan Calendar...



Let's hope it rusts...

Joe x

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