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An hour into Brick Lane I was all set to hate it. It seemed to be trying to sell me a brand of moral that I associate more with Disney films, where the most important thing in life is to be true to yourself, as long as being true to yourself means being white and middle class, or if you’re not, behaving like you are. But - though I’m still not certain there isn’t some element of truth in that - it recovers so drastically and so effectively in its last half hour that it’s hard to care.
Film Review: 30 Days of Night, by David Slade | Comments (0) | Below is a summary — View the full post » Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s 30 Days of Night did a lot to revitalize horror comics, largely thanks to a great and simple premise - a tiny town in the farthest reaches of Alaska is besieged by vampires through the length of a single month-long night. As anyone who remembers my review of odd Swedish chiller Frostbiten a few months back will know, I’ve been looking forward to this film adaptation for quite a while. So if you detect a note of crushing disappointment in the rest of the review then you know why.
Film Review: Elizabeth The Golden Age, by Shekhar Kapur | Comments (0) | Below is a summary — View the full post » Apparently Cate Blanchett was always on board with the idea of a second film, and the only reason for the considerable wait was her insistence on being a suitable age to play the Elizabeth of the script. It’s a nice idea, scuppered slightly by the fact that Blanchett is in her thirties, while Elizabeth was in her fifties when the events of the film occurred. Unfortunately for anyone who worries about such things, this level of inaccuracy is more the rule than the exception.
Film Review: Stardust, by Matthew Vaughan | Comments (0) | Below is a summary — View the full post » There are moments aplenty when Stardust looks to be losing its way: every time a celebrity pops up for a needless cameo, every time dodgy CGI rears its ugly head, every time director Vaughan sends his camera sweeping off up a mountain or into space for no obviously good reason … yet, for every moment that’s crass or out of place, there are three that are charmingly, perfectly in keeping with the source material and the milieu that Gaiman draws from.