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Alice? Alice? There are some novels that cannot, or should not, be filmed – Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World springs to mind, and Tim Burton’s archetypally dark, visually stirring but emotionally hollow adaptation of Lewis Caroll’s journey down the rabbit hole seems to prove that Alice in Wonderland belongs in the same category. Not, it must be [...] Time to get slimy Like its South-Korean predecessor, Joon-Hwan Jang’s Save the Green Planet (2003), Gwoemul (The Host) (2006) scooped the Golden Raven, top prize at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. It’s not difficult to see why – from the creature’s first attack, on food-stand slacker Park Kang-du (Kang-ho Song) and his ravishing head-strong daughter Park [...] Fur enough Lycanthropes would appear to be back in vogue – director Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III (2001)) and screenwriters Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en (1995)) and David Self (Road to Perdition (2002), Thirteen Days (2000)) resist the temptation to ‘update’ the George Waggner-directed, Curt Siodmak-written, Lon Chaney Jr.-starring 1941 classic, instead preferring a ‘re-imagining’ of the [...] ‘Sighs’ do matter Check out the award that this film won – but that’s what can happen when you give people the vote, right? Winner of the Best European Director (Roland Emmerich, Germany), People’s Choice Awards, European Film Awards 1998 Sharp-fisted fella Prequels, eh? We all know that The Godfather Part II (1974) by and large started the ball rolling, with its look at the early life of Brando’s Vito Corleone, as played by Robert De Niro in the second film. However, that is one of the best films ever made (it was the first and [...] Murder most bland A big-screen version of such a complex, fast-paced book was always going to be a challenge. Director Peter Jackson, he of Lord of the Rings fame, had his work cut out portraying the tale of a brutally murdered 14-year-old looking down from heaven on her shattered family, writes Emma Portier Davis. While Alice [...] Blood ties Brussels-based journalist and editor Emma Portier Davis joins our happy crew, with her thoughts on the latest ‘vampire in love’ saga. This is the second instalment of The Twilight Saga, which, in case you missed the first in 2008, centres on the near impossible romance between a vampire called Edward – played by the dreamy [...] Not boxing clever It’s an interesting enough idea – The Box (2009) by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko (2001), adapted by the director from the Richard Matheson short story Button, Button) has a provocative talking point at its core – would you push a button that you knew would kill a complete stranger somewhere, if the prize [...] Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow… All this talk on Picturenose (writes Cillian Donnelly) about Ronald Emmerich’s big-budget end-of-the-world thriller 2012 (2009) has prompted me to revisit this 1981 curio – a kitsch docu-drama based on the prophecies of the seer Michel de Nostradame, who is more commonly known as Nostradamus. |
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