This looked pretty interesting when I saw it first talked about, but the interim between seeing a trailer and seeing the cover of the DVD again, I had pretty much forgotten what it was about. I was ready to see Read more…
Tag: film
I read some reviews of the movie that were bad, and the reasons that were given were things that fell away for me as I watched the movie. The accuracy of the technology or the science at play? Sure, verisimilitude Read more…
How I wanted this to be a great film; how I wanted it to steal back some of the ground that the second movie lost for the sequel; how I wish that I could report that it succeeded. But it Read more…
I have never been as in love with the idea Of Superman as other super heroes – he always struck me as being a little boring. Christopher Reeve elevated him into something I never really found in the comics, but Read more…
I thought this was going to be more involving than it was. It was easy to watch and the low-key acting was easy enough to believe, but it was basically something with the feel of a television movie. Solid yet Read more…
From what I had heard about this movie, I was expecting something a lot worse than what I sat down to watch, and while it is not an amazing film by any stretch of the imagination, it is no way Read more…
I think I have used this term here before – a meringue movie; meaning a movie that is pretty to look at, but which has no substance. This seemed to me to be such a movie, and I am frustrated Read more…
I really enjoyed this film – it was an easy seduction from the moment that I saw the trailer. It could have failed though, as many long and lyrical films do, to hold my interest for its length. I am Read more…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CGOdfPuVWo&w=560&h=315] A live action version of an anime I loved? Colour me intrigued.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoCyL_Pqzu8&w=560&h=315] Looks interesting, and hopefully represents a return to form.