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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 [...] Stripped to the bone I’ve been off sick for a few days, so have had the pleasure of coughing a bit and having a small bell to ring so The Divine P can bring me food and cool towels. Well, the coughing part is certainly true. I have, however, had the opportunity to whittle down the [...] Love and war This is my all-time favourite feel-good, feel-sad, feel-just-pretty-darn-emotional movie. The cast of characters is so alive, you’ll be whisked away in seconds to Britain at war and find yourself hanging on every twist and turn in the tales of three American soldiers who fall in love with local girls as they train for [...] It’s a no-brainer We love zombies here at Picturenose headquarters. From the sublime and groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead (1968), through the witty and respectful Shaun of the Dead (2004) to the contentious Zack Snyder remake of Dawn of the Dead (2004). Why contentious? Because I thought it was crap, that’s why. Running zombies? I [...] Top Gere? Richard Gere was back in uniform just three years after Yanks (1979) as trainee naval aviator Zack Mayo in this blockbuster about the gritty life of officer training college. Mayonnaise, as his drill sergeant calls him, is determined to pass flight school and head off for a glittering career without a woman in tow [...] Lord of the dance? Hmmm. Emma Portier Davis returns with her thoughts on one of the chickiest flicks known to humanity. Not up to speed Since his Oscar-winning The Departed (2006), Martin Scorsese, the man who can perhaps lay claim to being America’s greatest living director, has been going a little ‘experimental’, with a documentary on The Rolling Stones, Shine A Light (2008) and a Spanish short, The Key To Reserva (2007) his only cinematic output. Now, [...] Lacking spark Hollywood’s fascination with Asian horror would be something worth celebrating if US directors and heads-of-studio would only take note of what made the originals work and then, hey! adapted them with style rather than completely rework them for ‘delicate’ Western sensibilities. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 original, Kairo, was meticulously paced, subtle and damn scary in places. [...] Watch and learn The full and rather clumsy title of Lee Daniels’ movie is Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Quite why Sapphire is name-checked, I have no idea, unless it was a contractual obligation. Rather like all the tunes in the charts where we get Boring Song by Nobody-I-Know featuring Some-Other-Nobody. It’s just [...] ‘Maid’ to measure Brit director Paul Weiland (a graduate from TV’s Mr Bean) and writers Adam Sztykiel and Deborah Kaplan manage to move this Patrick Dempsey vehicle away from what might justifiably have been predicted – God-awful trash – into something that’s just a little sharper and funnier than its set-up may give you cause to [...] |
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