Film Review: Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
byThis certainly isn’t Alice’s Wonderland – that quaint dreamscape of Lewis Carroll’s, where twisted logic and thoughts aloud craft both perfect linguistic sense and utter…
Helena Bonham Carter
Film Review: Suffragette (2015)
byWe’ve come so far, we’ve got so far to go. Suffragette acts as both a reminder of the progress made in the fight for…
Film Review: Big Eyes (2014)
byTim Burton’s films are usually dark, both visually and thematically, but Big Eyes sees the veteran director tone it down a notch. His 17th…
Film Review: Great Expectations (2012)
byAs the 19th Century’s most accomplished writer of soap fiction, one of the keys to Charles Dickens’ longevity has been his ability to create a likeable hero. More impressively, he also possessed an uncanny ability to weave almost every aspect of society into a coherent storyline, gentlemen’s clubs, gaolers, average Joes and all.
Film Review: Les Misérables (2012)
byIt seems strange to write that actors singing in a musical is revolutionary, but in this case it is. Appropriately, the revolution is made…
Wednesdays with Woody: Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
by“Achilles only had an Achilles heel… I’ve got an Achilles body.” Seven years after being coerced into adopting a baby boy by his art-dealing…
Film Review: Dark Shadows (2012)
byVampires, werewolves, ghosts and witches are quite the material for a 1960s soap opera. Long before the days of Twilight and True Blood, Dark…
Film Review: The King’s Speech (2010)
byBy James Madden. Viewed 01.01.11 It’s good to be a King! …or so the saying goes. But for George VI, or “Bertie” as we…