Locke & Key didn't get past a pilot.

Also; this film, combined with some others coming out lately, shows a propaganda effort towards normalizing police brutality.

PLEASE let some folks with imagination back on the air.....

who've had their works adapted for series without raping the author or material.

And you've just neatly summed up what's so incredibly wrong about publishers and agents who demand authors "straightwash" YA/teen fiction, and stop buying into the idea that it's somehow a "radical political statement" or tantamount to hardcore XXX porn to have GLBT characters, or even acknowledge such people exist. …

So, if one changed the names in Justified/M&C, would one have a technically completely new story?

Honestly, I think Sunshine is going to be one of those films people that didn't find an audience when it was first released, but will re-discovered and appreciated by another audience down the line. Which is probably cold comfort when you've still been slagged off as a pretentious bore, but "fair" is no more…

Yup. I thought there was plenty about Sunshine that didn't work but (I need to come up with a paste short cut for this) I'd rather see a film that reaches high and falls short than one that doesn't bother trying at all.

That's a really interesting question, and one I think we can kick around a lot without ever coming down on a definitive answer. Have you seen Master and Commander: The Far Side of The World? Loved it, but the screenplay is a complicated patchwork cobbled together from all over Patrick O'Brien's Aubery/Maturin…

Oh, spare my blushes. :) But I've got to correct myself here. I'm not saying Hitchcock isn't a huge influence on Del Toro - Guillermo has a beautiful appreciation of The Master, and how he influenced his own aesthetic, in the August issue of Sight & Sound (not on line, sadly). …

Meh... There have been plenty of television adaptations of Pratchett, and most recently UK cable network Sky1 have screened adaptations of Hogfather, The Colour of Magic and Going Postal — with, IIRC, Unseen Academicals set for production sometime next year. They're not terrible, by any measure, but for me so much…

Certainly. You're right that Justified is (loosely) based on 'Fire in the Hole' — but it's a tribute to all involved that Elmore Leonard is a big and vocal fan. And we're talking about a man who's never been shy about speaking his mind about anything, including his views on adaptations of his novels.

Words like Twin Peaks and Hitchcockian are being thrown around, and that's even better.

It's also a hell of a watch if you've got any interest in fashion. Swinton also worked her fashion contacts hard - because the credits include an eye-popping array of very high end fashion labels that loaned the production clothes. (Very helpful when you're making a low-budget art house film centered on a family…

This is probably unpatriotic to say, but New Line didn't bet the farm on the unholy trilogy just because the landscapes are lovely (though they are) and Peter Jackson is a really awesome dude (which he is, up to a point). Never underestimate the power of a favorable exchange rate, eye-watering tax concessions and…

But, honestly, if the evil Reds were trying to turn Looper into Chinese propoganda one throw-away gag, a sequence substantively unchanged except for its location being changed from Paris to Shanghai and a Chinese actress in a minor supporting role? Well, Comrades, you're really sucking reactionary bourgeois arse at…

While I understand the appeal of the "age the character in real time" it honestly doesn't make a lot of sense because time doesn't pass in the character's world the way it does in ours.

It's also really interesting the relationships some directors have to music. I'd warmly recommend laying hands on Io sono l'amore (I Am Love), not just for Tilda Swinton's glorious performance, but the wonderful score made up of existing pieces by John Adams. Swinton (who was also one of the producers) said that it…

Remind me again of the long list of human rights violations and current aggressive cultural and economic imperialism England is engaged in?