Russell Brand is one of those comedians you either love or hate. And it seems people pay just as much attention to the sordid details of his private life as to his work – in the films he appears in (Get Him to the Greek, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) or lends his instantly identifiable whiny voice to (Hop, [...]
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He mightn’t be dying quite as hard as he used to, but Bruce Willis still manages to paint the town Red in this geri-action comedy from director Robert Schwentke (The Time Traveler’s Wife), a mildly entertaining comic adaptation in which a bunch of retired CIA agents refuse to let their bad backs and higher insurance premiums get in the way of kicking [...]
It’s easy to laugh at the inherent goofiness of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, a Tolkien-esque fantasy epic in which a bunch of talking CGI owls don ornate suits of armour and deliver lines like “Trust your gizzard, Soren” without so much as a wink. In fact, there isn’t a single sight gag or pop culture reference to speak of, which is astonishing, really, when [...]
Politicians and journalists might not see eye to eye in the real world, but the two go together brilliantly in Kevin McDonald’s (The Last King of Scotland) State of Play, making for an engaging and entertaining political thriller. Adapted from the acclaimed BBC mini-series of the same name, State of Play benefits from a stellar cast and an devilishly clever screenplay. Think Michael Clayton from the point of view of a journalist, an unsurprising association given the film is co-written by Clayton’s director/writer Tony Gilroy, who continues to prove he’s the master corporate scandals on screen. Whilst the film does partially lose its edge after one too many plot twists, the magnetism of its characters and superb narrative progression leading up to the contrived ending still makes for a truly captivating thriller.
”I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page, where it belongs,” Helen Mirren’s character Elinor proclaims in the fantasy film Inkheart, and I couldn’t agree more. Whatever magic that existed on the pages of Cornelia Funke’s novel, to which the film was adapted from, was clearly lost in translation.
