Moulin Rouge was named the best movie of the noughties, according to a new poll of 150,000 film fans.
The bohemian musical starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman beat the latest Batman movie The Dark Knight into second, with top placed Brit-flick Shaun of the Dead in third, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The UK’s largest online DVD & games rental service, LOVEFiLM, asked members to vote from a shortlist of 100 films said to have defined the …

Oscar-winning British director Sam Mendes, who directed American Beauty, is in talks to direct the next James Bond film, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Mendes, 45, is likely to be in charge of the 23rd film featuring Ian Fleming’s secret agent. Daniel Craig will once again play Bond and production could begin as early as June.
The movie is expected to be released in 2011 and the writers will include Peter Morgan, the writer of Frost/Nixon.
The first film …

Estonian brothers Kaur and Kaspar Kallas invented the first known 3D film camera in the world, the country’s national broadcasting ERR reported.
“We have no knowledge that such technology would exist anywhere else in the world,” Kaur Kallas said.
Together with camera maker Silicon Imaging the brothers produced a three kilogram device that can record and replay 3D image.
James Cameron’s Avatar animation was filmed in old-fashioned way – with two parallel cameras. However, his next 3D film …

Despite the decade not being over yet, Top Gear has been voted the greatest television programme of the decade.
Top Gear emerged as the greatest TV programme in a Channel 4/YouGov nationwide survey.
“I could never say what the reason is for Top Gear doing so well since we started it but I think there’s always a sense that we’d still be doing it even if the cameras weren’t here and that makes it real,” Top Gear …

I contemplated long if 2012 is even worth of writing about. Because, it was definitely the worst movie of 2009. Perhaps even the worst movie of the 21st century. But then I realised that even though they say that any publicity is good publicity, I’ve got to warn people who haven’t yet spent their money on this utterly bad and idiotic waste of film roll. Do yourselves a favour and don’t.
I remember too vividly Roland …

The latest Star Trek film was illegally downloaded more than 10 million times in 2009, which makes it the most pirated movie of the year, the BBC reports.
Star Trek was ahead of Transformers sequel Revenge of the Fallen, and Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla was the third. The Hangover and Twilight complete the top five, according to TorrentFreak blog.
Other films featured in the list of most illegally downloaded titles include sci-fi thriller District 9 and the sixth …

Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam war film “Apocalypse Now” topped a poll marking 30 years of the London Film Critics’ Circle Awards, where it won best film in 1980, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The critics did not think there has been a better film since and placed it ahead of Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust epic “Schindler’s List” and the critics’ circle’s 2007 foreign-language winner “The Lives Of Others” (“Das leben der anderen”).
Starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen, Coppola’s …

Oprah Winfrey, one of the most influential and highly paid women on television, will end her popular daytime talk show in 2011, Reuters reports.
She is expected to move to cable network OWN, or Oprah Winfrey Network, a Los Angeles-based joint venture she formed with Discovery Communications, when her current syndication deal for “The Oprah Winfrey Show” runs out in 2011. OWN will be available in more than 70 million homes.
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” broadcast from …

On numerous occasions I’ve mentioned that The Prisoner is one of my all-time favourite TV-shows. It’s such a reflection of today’s world – as it probably somewhat reflected the world in the 1960ies when the late Patrick McGoohan co-wrote and co-produced the original series. The old Prisoner was much more “Orwellian” than Orwell ever was, and the plot, the acting, the scenes and the location – it’s just a brilliant piece of TV history which …

A Twitter feed featuring pearls of wisdom from a 73-year-old father could become a family comedy on US TV, the BBC reports.
Jason Halpern, 29, has become an internet star with more than 700,000 followers since he began posting his father’s often profane words of wisdom. The comments include: “The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain’t like he knows the cure for cancer and he just ain’t spitting it out.”
Halpern will co-write the …

A lost Charlie Chaplin film has been discovered in a can of nitrate film bought on eBay for £3.20, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Morale Park from Henham, Essex, purchased the tin simply because he liked the look of it. He was amazed to discover its fragile contents: a previously unknown seven-minute film Chaplin film called Zepped.
His interest was piqued, he said, when he could not find any mention of it on the internet.
The film features footage of …

Yesterday the new “V” series – the remake of a popular TV-series from 1984 – piloted in the United States. As one of the people from the generation that has also seen the old “V”, I greatly anticipated the new series and I have to admit, the start is quite promising.
“V” is about an alien race – called “Visitors – that come to Earth, claiming they’re peaceful and happy, and that they’ve come to share …

The producer of “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Matrix”, Barrie Osborne, is backing a new, £91.5 million film on Islam’s Prophet Mohammad, the aim of the movie is to “bridge cultures”.
Filming of the English-language movie is set to start in 2011 with Osborne as its producer, Ynet reports.
However, Prophet Mohammad himself won’t be depicted in the film, in accordance with Islamic rules.
Osborne said that the film would be an “international epic production aimed …

ITV Studios’ director of global acquisitions and co-producers, Emmanuelle Namiech says that the actors used in British dramas are too ugly for foreign audiences, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Programme makers need to cast better looking actors if they want to market their shows in North America, Namiech said. “The UK has more realistic expectations about what characters should look like, but the majority of overseas networks look for characters who are much more aspirational. Some of the …

London Mayor Boris Johnson appeared on EastEnders last night, when he popped into the Queen Vic after his bike got a puncture.
Here’s the video of Boris’s appearance:

A new film warns bleakly but dramatically that Islam has all but taken over Europe, and that radical Islam threatens to do the same in the United States, Arutz 7 reports.
The film called “Third Jihad” paints a dramatic picture, brushstroke by shocking brushstroke, depicting the non-violent methods by which radical Islam seeks to fulfill its goal of nothing short than conquering the world and establishing “the global Islamic state”. This is the goal set …