Last night I went to see the movie adaption of Watchmen, the graphic novel about flawed superheroes by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. This film isn’t without controversy as the creator, and many of the novel’s fans, don’t believe that it should have been made at all… Well, whether the fact that it is only […]
The Week of Film #3 Wonder Woman
What’s that you cry? ‘There isn’t a Wonder Woman film – it was shelved!” While that’s true for live action – the most determined person to see it appear was Joss Whedon, but even he gave up when faced with the studios wanting to meddle – its not true for animation, as last month saw […]
The Week of Film #2 Gran Torino
Friday found us at ‘Ammersmif sitting down to watch Clint Eastwood in his latest (last?) role in Gran Torino – a film about an embittered old geezer with old-fashioned values facing down the gangs in his rapidly deteriorating neighbourhood. This is a very intelligent film, and although he’s as gruff and as rugged as ever […]
The Week of Film #1 Slumdog Millionaire
Another cultural adventure this week as I saw three new movies. First off, on Wednesday night we went to see the film that everyone’s currently raving about due to its eight Academy Awards – ‘Slumdog Millionaire‘, directed by Danny Boyle and based on a story by Simon Beaufoy. The first thing that struck me about […]
Brass Buttons
I went to see “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” last night, starring Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt, and adapted from the short story by F Scott Fitzgerald. I’m not sure whether I was reading too much into it, but I found it really moving, it brought tears to the eyes at times. Perhaps I’m […]
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I watched ‘Choke‘ at the cinema tonight – an art-house film on limited release starring Sam Rockwell (Zaphod Beeblebrox in the remake of the Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy, and featuring in the upcoming film of the David Frost/Richard Nixon interviews) and directed by Clark Greg, who I last saw as the S.H.I.E.L.D agent in […]
Oh Hell
I don’t know what’s happening with summer blockbusters in the last few years. Since Lord of the Rings it seems that anything with a fantasy or sci-fi theme has to run for ages simply to justify its own existence, and so it won’t surprise you to find that Hellboy II – The Golden Army runs […]