Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (3D) **
A CGI triumph and a character fail, with a story/adventure worth telling far, far better.
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by lgileskeddie
Posted: 25/06/2017
A CGI triumph and a character fail, with a story/adventure worth telling far, far better.
by lgileskeddie
Posted: 22/11/2014
The life of the brilliant-minded Alan Turing is not known by most. That will certainly change after this film, The Imitation Game, with the genius British logician and cryptologist forever associated with cracking the Nazis’ Enigma Code and helping the Allies win World War II. But inventor of the modern-day computer – as is suggested here, …
by lgileskeddie
Posted: 12/07/2014
Once writer-director John Carney’s latest soul-searching drama set in New York initially sounds clichéd and egocentric, a sort of smug music set pandering to a trendy elite of snobbish music aficionados. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth, and the soundtrack grows on you as the characters’ and their search for acceptance do. This …
Continue reading “Begin Again ****”
Category: Comedy, Drama, Music
Tags: Adam Levine, Begin Again, James Corden, John Carney, Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Once
by lgileskeddie
Posted: 23/01/2014
Jason Bourne has created such a high benchmark for any non-007 action film that all seem a poor imitation in comparison. Even more unfortunate is Jack Ryan is a much admired character from the Tom Clancy school of espionage brilliance and very different from Bourne, but the action part of any film adaptation will always …
by lgileskeddie
Posted: 16/05/2013
You can imagine that a literary adaptation set in the self-indulgent Roaring Twenties about a fateful love story that’s given the Baz Luhrmann touch would be as extravagant as ever. Think Moulin Rouge. Indeed the flamboyant director does not hold back with his version of The Great Gatsby and even tries to shoehorn in a …
Continue reading “The Great Gatsby ***”
Category: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Tags: Baz Luhrmann, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, Jay-Z, Joel Edgerton, Kanye West, Keira Knightley, Leonardo DiCaprio, Moulin Rouge, Scarlett Johansson, The Great Gatsby, Tobey Maguire
by lgileskeddie
Posted: 09/09/2012
Director Joe Wright’s take on Tolstoy’s tragic love story, Anna Karenina, is bound to divide opinion, particularly after watching the initially distracting theatrical element of a film set within theatre set changes. Those who favour classic Russian epics, like the days of Doctor Zhivago, may well have envisaged this in grander, more realistic settings. Admittedly, …
Continue reading “Anna Karenina ****”
Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tags: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Anna Karenina, Doctor Zhivago, Joe Wright, Jude Law, Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Nowhere Boy, Pride & Prejudice, Tolstoy, Tom Stoppard
by lgileskeddie
Posted: 14/07/2012
Setting the end of the world as a romcom backdrop may seem like an original bittersweet idea, and in the hands of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist writer Lorene Scafaria who directs for the first time here, it has so much dark, quirky potential. Indeed, Scafaria’s Seeking a Friend for the End of the World …
Continue reading “Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World ***”
by lgileskeddie
Posted: 09/02/2012
A Dangerous Method feels like a conservative filmmaking departure from David Cronenberg’s usual darkly unsettling, if shocking affair, replacing reality-morphing, mind-bending scenarios with character-driven performances in a period setting. This sobering, if more mature film from the King of Venereal Horror almost takes a step back from the introspective insanity of his past work, and …
Continue reading “LFF 2011: A Dangerous Method ***”
Category: BFI LFF 2011, Drama, Romance
Tags: A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel
by lgileskeddie
Posted: 31/05/2011
Temptation is the name of the game of The Jacket writer Massy Tadjedin’s quietly profound directorial debut, Last Night. The temptation of such an intriguingly sexy and good-looking cast of Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes and French actor Guillaume Canet is the film’s obvious draw, and what drives a story full of acute observations …
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