By Iain Blair 
Saw an early screening of Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen’s breezy new romantic comedy about Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), two young American women who visit Barcelona, one of the most romantic cities in the world. There, they meet sexy painter, Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), but things get complicated when they […]

By Iain Blair
Color grading for commercials hasn’t changed much in the past 20 years, but cutting edge company FilmLight is changing all with that several new technologies that it plans to introduce publicly at IBC. I was lucky enough to be included in an early exclusive demo at its Los Angeles offices on Cahuenga, and […]

 By Iain Blair
Went to meet legendary actor/director/artist Dennis Hopper who stars as a presidential nominee in the new Disney comedy Swing Vote, opposite old friend Kevin Costner  (they did Waterworld together.) Hopper will always be remembered for such iconic films as Rebel Without a Cause, Giant and Easy Rider, which he also directed, but the […]

By Iain Blair
It’s a very long way from playing 007 to being a song-and-dance man in Mama Mia, the new film debuting this Friday based on the hit musical and music of ABBA . But Pierce Brosnan has always liked a challenge, which helps explain why the former James Bond star was happy to sing […]