Alec Guinness News

Plant Walk - Learn about and identify the many native plants of the Adriana Hess Wetland Park, noon-1 p.m. Nov.

Eight's enough characters for Carrey in 'Christmas Carol' W ho does Jim Carrey think he is - Eddie Murphy? In the 2000 "The Nutty Professor" sequel, Murphy played eight roles .

It's just as well that the couch I'm sitting on is plump and hospitable or I might have fallen off it: Martin Scorsese tells me that the real inspiration for the tone and voice of Goodfellas was not Scarface or Public Enemy , but Kind Hearts and Coronets .

8 ** ** Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto: doc series I Prophesy ponders the marriage of man and machine, Oct.

James Bond's arsenal of missile-firing Aston Martins, exploding attache cases, and other spyware might not have included a vacuum cleaner, but this utilitarian tool has played a prominent role in the undercover adventures of some real-life covert agents.

Two people from radically different backgrounds forge a romantic connection aboard a ship in "A Majority of One" at James Downing Theatre in Edison Park through Oct.

Twenty-five films that made it from the book shelf to the box office with credibility intact.

THOMASTON : Continuing their Friday night film series, the Friends of the Thomaston Public Library is presenting films in Room 208 of the Thomaston Academy Building, 60 Main St./Route 1. This month's Friday night movies are British comedies.

THOMASTON : Continuing their Friday night film series, Friends of the Thomaston Public Library is presenting a new series of films in Room 208 of the Thomaston Academy Building, 60 Main St./Route 1. The August Friday night movies offer a selection of British comedies.

Northwestern University's Block Cinema has recently offered up some pretty mainstream hits from last year: Iron Man , WALL-E , and Kung-Fu Panda included.

In the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai , the main character, Colonel Nicholson, is a prisoner of war in Burma who leads his men to build a bridge for his Japanese captors.

A word to the even wiser: Make sure you take Queen Latifah along with you. "Last Holiday," Wayne Wang 's energetic remake of the 1950 comedy starring Sir Alec Guinness , gets new life breathed into it by a wonderful, slightly toned down performance from Latifah.

You know I don't do geek. So here's Luke Y Thompson to cover the 2009 Con for DHD with an emphasis on all things Hollywood: Dear Comic-Con folks - " please consider having the Twilight panel first thing in the morning next time.

Carolina Theatre - If you haven't seen a David Lean film on the big screen, then you haven't seen a David Lean film.

Richard Attenborough was not inclined to cast Indians in Gandhi. He says Nehru persuaded him that Indians were not ready for such roles.

Beginning Sunday, the Carolina Theatre will spend a week showing David Lean's 1957 war classic "The Bridge on the River Kwai," starring William Holden and Sir Alec Guinness.

We all remember the famous scene from 1977's Star Wars. Sir Alec Guinness waives his hand to the storm trooper and says, "These aren't the 'droids you're looking for, they can move along." Barack Obama is trying to apply the same technique to the American people in regards to whether the non-stimulus stimulus bill worked or not .

July 9, 2009 - John le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy , which was turned into the classic BBC miniseries of the same name in 1979 starring Alec Guinness , is headed for the screen again -- only this time it'll be the big screen, and it'll have Let the Right One In helmer Tomas Alfredson behind the camera.

Kind Hearts and Coronets, starring Alec Guinness, was the masterwork of alcoholic maverick Robert Hamer.

High on the list of undervalued, under-appreciated and just plain little-known movies that ought to be seen is Henry Cass' Last Holiday - as perfectly constructed, witty and moving a little drama as you're likely to encounter anywhere.