Saturday 9 October 2010

Newsmakers: or, Goryachie Novosti if you want it in Russian …

You know, it’s always amazing to me, what happens on Movie Nights, it really does …

Tonight … ?

Tonight Movie Night Adrian and I have been happily watching the film, Newsmakers, the 2009 remake of 2004 Hong Kong action film, Breaking News.

And, co-incidentely, the pair of us have been bag-sitting for Kevin and Sarah D.

That’s the bag, at the bottom, there …

Sarah’s due to pick it up, any minute …

Lord know’s why, but I’ll be asking, in case you’re wondering …

At any rate, as you’ve probably worked out what film Adrian and I have just caught: as I think I’ve already said, the 2009 film, Newsmakers.

Or Goryachie Novosti, if you’d like it in Russian … !


I’m burbling …


Aren’t I … ?

At any rate, Newsmakers follow a Moscow policeman — Major Smirnov, played by Andrey Merzlikin — after a drug burst goes wrong.

Headquarters response? Suggested by a young hotshot, from the department’s PR people … ?

Is to turn the whole thing into a reality TV show …

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Now, Newsmakers isn’t a major art-house piece full of doom, gloom and darkness.

Quite the reverse of Night Watch, in that regard!

But Newsmakers is entertaining fun: despite being maybe uncomfortably close to the media circus that surrounded the the Cumbrian and Raoul Moat events.

And well worth catching.


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