Direct Download Link For A Dripping Wet, Supposedly Sexy Scene From Atonement

Want to see Keira Knightley wearing something very skimpy and then getting this skimpy underwear soaked right through? I expect some of you do.

If so, why not download a medium or big sized version of the appropriate clip from Atonement, as provided by GQ Online.

Direct Download Links For Five More Atonement Featurettes

Download or watch the new featurettes on Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Joe Wright, the Dunkirk sequence and the three Brionys.

The Greatest Single Shot In The History Of British Film

The Guardian have claimed that Atonement contains what they consider may be the single greatest shot in British film. Er... okay, but excuse me... that's completely nuts.

Joe Wright's Pride and Prejudice is such a wretched disaster of a film I have a complete and utter conviction Atonement will ascend to mediocrity at best. The idea of it containing the greatest shot in Brit cinema is laughable.

So, what is this shot? The Guardian describe it like this:

It's a beach scene at Dunkirk, when the dazed James McAvoy makes it back from his mission in France only to stumble into the chaos of the British army in disarray. Wright introduces us to the carnage with a magnificent tracking shot that winds its way through a minefield of devastation.

Oh, I see. I get it. It's one of those.

Period set dressing and costumes - check. Extended tracking moves - check. Explosions and chaos - check.

Yawn.

If you don't share my doubts, you can download the Guardian's podcast in which Wright discusses his apparently mindblowing shot.

Okay, I'll come back to this apparent masterpiece of film craft once I've actually seen Atonement and I can knock it with authority, but in the meantime - what of the other, genuine contenders for the title of Greatest Single Shot in British Film?

Well, as far as tracking shots go, there's several in the canon of Alan Clarke that deserve serious consideration. In fact, there's several in any one of Clarke's later films.

But let's forget tracking shots. They're seldom the best shots in a film - not least because they're incredibly hard to keep constantly relevant.

How about something from early Hitchcock? An embarrassment of riches there, of course. I'm very fond of the final moments of Blackmail, but I won't go into details about them here - that film has an ending I'm so keen to keep from spoiling, I've routinely lied about it for almost two decades.

The big reveal in The Crying Game certainly has the content if not necessarily the form to enter the hall of fame too, I feel.

I'll leave this open to you for now. I'm very keen to get your suggestions. British films only, remember.

Direct Download Link For Working Title's Atonement Featurette

Working Title are pimping Atonement in a full-on fashion. Download their latest hype-mongering clip, which features footage from the film and interviews.

Direct Download Link For The Focus Sizzle Reel

See mini-trailers for Evening, Talk to Me, Eastern Promises, Reservation Road, Atonement and Lust, Caution when you download the Focus Sizzle Reel. Much better than that scrappy YouTube version.

Movie Minesweeper - The Online Opinion Maker Edition

- Atonement is to open the Venice fest with I'm Not There, There Will Be Blood, Cassandra's Dream, These Times, Planet Terror and Lust, Caution all looking likely to screen also.

- Antonio Banderas is eyeing a deal that will make him an animation producer.

- Annete Bening is going Broadway next spring, taking a starring role in Joanna Murray-Smith's The Female of the Species. That will make for a nice round 20 year gap in her Broadway career.

- Ashton Kutcher vehicle Father's Day is set up to go at Columbia. So far, it is only a pitch from scriptwriters Ian Deitchman and Kristin Robinson, but one day it will be a 'comedy'.

- Elijah Kelley is to star in Party Up, a comedy about teenagers going to great lengths to have a party. Hmmmm.

- Elizabeth Kostova's Vampire yarn The Historian is at last making moves towards the multiplex. Caleb Kane is to write the screenplay adaptation. The book's reputation appears to be somewhat uneven, but if Interview With the Vampire can make for a film as good as it did, there's always hope.

- Spain is to be hit by a one-day cinema strike next Monday. It looks as if the protest is aimed at a new draft law that cinema owners say has failed to take their needs into consideration.

- Grayson T. Boucher is to star in Ball Don't Lie, a drama about a teen basketball player and his tough life. The law of averages has so far kept films about teen basketball players with easy lives away from the silver screen, but sooner or later, their day will come. Losts Emili De Ravin is also to appear.

- Neil Labute has cast Patrick Wilson in Lakeview Terrace.

- Danny DeVito's next is to be No Place Like Home. He'll play a retired Fireman (really? Isn't there a minimum height mandate?) who kidnaps his wife so that his twenty-something sons will have to fend for themselves and become discouraged from living at home. If she doesn't divorce him after that I'm gonna throw popcorn at the screen. What's the odds on him getting bedbound and needing her to wait on him hand, foot and finger?

- Matt Madden and Tom Hart are re-enacting The Five Obstructions with comic strips and not short films. I found the link at The Beat.

- Two Can Play That Game is to get a sequel called... Three Can Play That Game. Saucy. Vivica A. Fox is to star and produce.

- Disney defecter Nina Jacobson now has her first Dreamworks project on the calendar. Dominion is about the human leader of the world's first robosoldier platoon. She said "It's a film that will require a real visionary director, and it's a project that has a lot of big-movie elements" - I'll swing with the 'elements' but there's a good chance she won't get anywhere near a visionary director with this one. Not a real one, anyway.

- The Occasionally Interesting Anti-Adventures of an Unnamed Girl is a) a Wizard of Oz derivative set up at Disney and b) due a name change. This title seems like a producer-grabbing tactic like Untitled Teenage Sex Comedy That Can Be Made For Under $10 Million That Most Readers Will Probably Hate But I Think You Will Love, the original name on the American Pie frontcover.

- The IESB have a deal with Doug Jones. You send them your questions, he'll answer some of them.

- Mikael Halfstrom is expecting his entire back catalogue to get American remakes.

- Shatner.

- War Inc. is only War Inc. outside of the US. In the US, it will be called Brand Hauser. Is that tantamount to calling all Americans thick? Or just many Americans? Or not at all?

- MovieWeb have spoken to Gianni Nunnari about Ronin and Silence. I'll place my chips on neither of those ever being produced.

- Rumer Willis, Bruce Willis and Mischa Barton have been cast in The Sophomore. It revolves around a sinsiter conspiracy at a Catholic school. In my experience, Catholic schools are sinsiter conspiracies, given form in stone and flesh - so this must be doubly sinister.

- Mike Myers has told The Telegraph that his Keith Moon biopic will start shooting in January.

- Four old Rko creepy-crawlers are to be remade by Evolution Entertainment.

- Robert Mark Kamen is to write the upcoming Gatchaman film.

- Nurse Laverne of Scrubs is to return as... Nurse Shirley, her twin sister. Boom boom.

- Eli Roth is taking the rest of the year to write a pile of scripts, and Cell won't shoot until next spring. At least then he'll have a series of screenplays ready to go.

- Jeff Lieberman's brilliant Blue Sunshine is returning to DVD in August but, this time, the disc will be hosted by Elvira. Why? To promote her upcoming find-a-new-goth-glamour-girl reality show.

- Spy Kid Alexa Vega has been cast in Repo! The Genetic Opera. Will it really be an opera?

- Godzilla 3D.

- A trailer for Control has turned up on YouTube.

- Al Pacino has recorded a podcast for Time in which he answers readers' questions. How Doug Jones.

- Kellogs' movie tie-in marketing may be approaching the final curtain.

- Pat Eaton-Robb tried out to be an extra in Indiana Jones 4.

- Angelina Jolie's lawyer has been blamed for the recent attempts to stifle freedom of the press around A Mighty Heart.

Murray The Mayor

It seems as though Bill Murray has been cast as the wicked Mayor in Gil Kenan's adaptation of City of Ember. Variety also report that Toby Jones is in the cast, as well as Saoirse Ronan, who plays the younger version of Romola Garai's character in Atonement. Ronan is bound to be Lina Mayfleet, one of the two child leads, while Jones is likely to be Looper, a 'mysterious' thief.

The film is set to be shot in Belfast, which is an interesting choice. As the story takes place in an underground world with no natural light, I was imagining just about everything will be shot on sound stages and then I realised how big these sound stages would have to be, and I wasn't quite sure anymore. If they do shoot on location, everything will have to be shot after dark, of course.

Maybe Belfast is smoggy enough that starlight and the moon add only low levels of ambient interference? I doubt it, somehow.

Kenan did a very good job with Monster House and I'm very keen to see how he handles a totally different toolkit on his second feature. Hopefully he'll build on his promise - handled correctly (and so far, it seems it has been) a feature film of City of Ember could be a genuine family classic.