Released on: 2005
Rating: 7.50
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Tom Hooper: already above Oscar?
Tom Hooper may not pick up the award for best director but Academy Awards matter less to such a high achiever, says Catherine Shoard
The odds are that Tom Hooper won't be named best director this Sunday. What that will make him, by default, is the year's most discreet. For although the cast, composer and writer of The King's Speech seem shoo-ins – and the film itself may well win best picture – Hooper himself looks likely to lose out.
An insult? Was he really the one thing that let the side down? No: it's a compliment. Hooper has helmed an awards-gorger of a movie, an underdog the size of a bus that's steamrollered the competition into submission, and no one really noticed there was a driver. A story in last week's Evening Standard said that "Peter Hooper" was irked by accusations of historical inaccuracy. This is the man behind the biggest Britflick in years.»
- Catherine Shoard
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Transcendent Man Trailer Offers More Evidence That Terminator May Become Non-Fiction
I've been fascinated with Ray Kurzweil since reading a Rolling Stone interview with him several years ago. In a nutshell, Kurzweil believes very strongly that humans and machines will merge within the next forty years or so, and that mortality itself will become obsolete. He's coined an entire borderline-religous movement based around the day where humans and technology merged, which he calls singularity. This wouldn't be so interesting if the guy wasn't a bonafide genius who Bill Gates and the owners of Google regularly call into meetings. So he's not a total uninformed crackpot. Also, he has a personal obsession with living to see singularity so that he will be able to resurrect his dead father. In other words, it's about time someone made a movie about the guy. »
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