Film Review: Elizabeth The Golden Age, by Shekhar Kapur
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...
View ArticleFilm Review: 30 Days of Night, by David Slade
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...
View ArticleFilm Review: Brick Lane, by Sarah Gavron
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...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Darjeeling Limited, by Wes Anderson
Anderson seems increasingly happy to wrap a group of devoted fans around himself ... and which group you fall into depends on whether or not you get the joke. But at least with his previous films there...
View ArticleFilm Review: Blade Runner, the Final Cut, by Ridley Scott
Blade Runner is one of the greatest films of the last century, and perhaps the greatest science-fiction movie of all time. Writers Hampton Fancher and David Peoples rifled through Philip K Dick’s...
View ArticleFilm Review: American Gangster, by Ridley Scott
With films like Inside Man, The Departed and Zodiac all performing well in the last few months, the crime movie appears to be undergoing something of a renaissance. One element of that comeback is a...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, by...
It's not just that The Assassination of Jesse James is slow; it's that it's obstructively slow, in a way that serves no purpose except to make Dominik look terribly smart and artistic. It plods from...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Golden Compass, by Chris Weitz
Let’s get on thing out of the way: I can’t imagine a much better adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel Northern Lights. The Golden Compass has plenty of flaws, but they’re the flaws of Pullman’s clever,...
View ArticleFiction Review: Harvest of Changelings, by Warren Rochelle
Warren Rochelle’s second novel, Harvest of Changelings, is about a group of outcast children with magical powers. Faced with terrible challenges, they band together and find solace and strength in each...
View ArticleFilm Review: Death Wish, by Michael Winner
I went into Death Wish expecting a laugh a minute, but in that respect, I was disappointed. For all its faults, the movie was never meant to be a joke. It’s far too earnest, and it even tries to have a...
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