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January 18th, 2010

Black Death release date moved back

What it says up there:
Black Death - movie art

From: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 18 January 2010 08:45:58 GMT
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Black Death Screening Tonight Cancelled

Morning

As the release of Black Death has moved back to May, we have cancelled the screening of the film today – we are looking to re-schedule this for next week so please bear with me but there will be no screening of Black Death tonight.

Best

xxxxxxx

There will be Sean Bean fanatics all over the WWW gnashing their teeth…

Update: Screening rescheduled for next Thursday…

January 13th, 2010

Black Death, cntd

Hat tip to the enthusiastic forum bods on Sean Bean Online who seem much more optimistic than I was in my earlier post about Black Death, which I am going to see on Monday.

They’ve collected lots of links to screen-shots from the movie, although I’m still yet to see a trailer. Check out this one, below. I was mildly chided by the poster ‘moonflower’ for being unduly pessimistic about the prospective quality of the film and musing that it looked like it might be ‘pestilential cack’.

Moonflower is right. It’s no good judging a film - still less a film starring the mighty Sean Bean - before you’ve seen it. I stand corrected, at least until Monday evening.

'Black Death': as yet not certified to be pestilential cack

'Black Death': as yet not certified to be pestilential cack

January 8th, 2010

Another movie: ‘Black Death’

The year is barely upon us, and there’s another medieval movie thundering over the horizon. It’s called ‘Black Death’. No prizes for guessing which fourteenth-century plague it concerns. Christopher Smith directs. Sean Bean stars as Ulric, a hardbitten knight who encounters a necromancer in a swamp. Tim McInnerny gets a credit as a character called ‘Hob’. For some reason everyone else has Anglo-Saxon names. I can’t find a trailer at present, but you can check out an image gallery here.

My suspicion, alas, is that it will be pestilential cack. But hope springs eternal. The press screening is coming up in about 10 days, so I will be able to post a full review in due course.

Update: It’s released on 26 February. Sorry, should have mentioned that

December 23rd, 2009

Men in tights

Here’s an early trailer for next year’s Ridley/Russell film of the Robin Hood story.

Looks dark. Looks like it contains what the movie certification people call ‘moderate peril’. Looks like Russell Crowe still only has one acting register. (See here for the best Crowe parody ever.) Looks, in the words of one critic, like a re-run of Gladiator. Only with tights.

Still, I’ll go and see it.

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