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20100203 Wednesday February 03, 2010

The Good, The Mad, And The Monkey

Review got to go to the UK premiere of Invictus, Clint Eastwood’s new Nelson Mandela/rugby movie, on Sunday. We were sitting three rows from the front, close enough to see the weird mole on Clint’s upper lip and Morgan Freeman’s wonky teeth. Although, judging by the picture quality below, our hands must have been shaking from the sheer excitement of being in such close proximity to not none, not one but TWO living legends of the silver screen. And Matt Damon (who is actually rather sweet in real life).



 

(l to r: Used to drive Jessica Tandy around in a car; Doesn’t like people laughing at his mule/being on his lawn; Warner Bros executive android #5748/b; MAAAAAT DAAAY-MONN)

 

Later on Review got cornered by some flaky space cadet outside a bar, who wouldn’t leave us alone until she’d expounded her highly detailed theories about how Every Which Way But Loose was a veiled endorsement of suicide, and that large orange monkey Clyde was the representation of Clint Eastwood’s unthinking, rage-filled superego. Unfortunately the press conference ran out of time before we got the chance to ask him to confirm or deny this.


Virgin Media nabs Che's HD debut

Virgin Media customers will get a high-def dose of revolution over the next couple of months, as the TV service has exclusive rights to the HD version of Che. The PictureBox subscription service will be airing both parts of director Steven Soderbergh’s two-part Che Guevara biopic, which V+ users can watch in high-definition.

Part One, The Argentine, will launch on 5 February, and Part Two, Guerrilla will follow a month later on 5 March. The films will each be available for a month on Virgin Media’s TV on demand service, meaning that customers will be able to watch them whenever they want during this time.

The Argentine focuses on the build-up to the Cuban revolution from the perspective of its leaders, including the young physician Guevara and Fidel Castro. Guerrilla chronicles Guevara’s attempt to develop and implement revolution in Bolivia.

The films star Benicio del Toro as the eponymous revolutionary, in a role that won him the Best Actor Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

PictureBox is available to Virgin Media’s 3.7 million TV subscribers for £5 per month and provides a broad selection of recent and library feature films.


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