Salon Films
Rating: ★★★
At the heart of Gascoigne is a difficult subject, but an irresistible one: a wayward genius, wounded and definitively vulnerable. In football, it’s also an age-old story thanks to the vortex created at the end of playing careers, when the irreplaceable thrill of adulation makes way for a vacuum that must be filled by something else.
For Gazza, the vacuum was filled with the same kind of self-destruction that made him such a commodity for the media in his playing days. He was never one for restraint: and just as that led to some of his more notorious and controversial moments on the pitch (his catastrophic knee injury, his infamous celebrations…) it also gave rise to some of the most famous stories about the amiable Geordie.
As Gascoigne is pretty quick to establish, not only are most of the wildest and worst things you’ve heard about Gazza true,...
Rating: ★★★
At the heart of Gascoigne is a difficult subject, but an irresistible one: a wayward genius, wounded and definitively vulnerable. In football, it’s also an age-old story thanks to the vortex created at the end of playing careers, when the irreplaceable thrill of adulation makes way for a vacuum that must be filled by something else.
For Gazza, the vacuum was filled with the same kind of self-destruction that made him such a commodity for the media in his playing days. He was never one for restraint: and just as that led to some of his more notorious and controversial moments on the pitch (his catastrophic knee injury, his infamous celebrations…) it also gave rise to some of the most famous stories about the amiable Geordie.
As Gascoigne is pretty quick to establish, not only are most of the wildest and worst things you’ve heard about Gazza true,...
- 6/6/2015
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
Sentient computers? Spandex in space? You told us the least convincing Nostradamus moment in a sci-fi flick
@thisismetypinganame Blade Runner is only nine years away, and we've barely started exploring the Tannhäuser Gate or the shoulder of Orion. And the current crop of replicants is rubbish too.
@Housey Surely Planet of the Apes, although the idea of de-evolution is looking to be very prescient.
@newdecade Well 2001 came and went without mankind reaching Jupiter, or ... without any of that ... other ... stuff.
@Sokket The eugenics war of 1999 – Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
@c0n0r The three shells of Demolition Man? Although we still have 22 years.
@Ragged Ignoring all the mutant/pre-cog stuff, the most unbelievable thing in Minority Report were the vertical motorways that ran, for no reason whatsoever, down the side of skyscrapers.
@herebutforfortune Sentient computers like Hal in 2001, whose emotional reaction to being told he was wrong...
@thisismetypinganame Blade Runner is only nine years away, and we've barely started exploring the Tannhäuser Gate or the shoulder of Orion. And the current crop of replicants is rubbish too.
@Housey Surely Planet of the Apes, although the idea of de-evolution is looking to be very prescient.
@newdecade Well 2001 came and went without mankind reaching Jupiter, or ... without any of that ... other ... stuff.
@Sokket The eugenics war of 1999 – Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
@c0n0r The three shells of Demolition Man? Although we still have 22 years.
@Ragged Ignoring all the mutant/pre-cog stuff, the most unbelievable thing in Minority Report were the vertical motorways that ran, for no reason whatsoever, down the side of skyscrapers.
@herebutforfortune Sentient computers like Hal in 2001, whose emotional reaction to being told he was wrong...
- 10/21/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Jeff Daniels is in talks to star opposite Patricia Heaton in TNT's telefilm The Goodbye Girl, Neil Simon's updated take on his 1977 feature. Goodbye, from Warner Bros. TV and TNT, centers on the relationship between a dumped-on divorcee (Heaton) and an aspiring actor (Daniels) who become unwilling co-tenants in a New York apartment. The original film starred Marsha Mason and Richard Dreyfuss, both of whom landed Golden Globe awards and Oscar nominations for their performances. Dreyfuss won the Oscar. Simon is penning the remake and is executive producing with Ron Ziskin and Dave Collins, with Don Safran co-executive producing. Daniels most recently was seen in Stephen Daldry's The Hours, Clint Eastwood's Blood Work, the Civil War drama Gods and Generals and Super Sucker, which he also wrote and directed. He is repped by ICM.
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