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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 [...] Trouble with Harry? Jeremy Slater’s back with his thoughts on the latest goings-on at Hogwarts… This may be the sixth instalment in the Harry Potter saga, with Parts I and II of the final book, The Deathly Hallows, to come in 2010 and 2011, but the heart still beats fast in David Yates’s Half-Blood Prince, with [...] [photopress:sweeney_todd.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Johnny be bad… Mr Depp seems singularly incapable of picking a bad role – after his triumphant conclusion to the Pirates of The Caribbean trilogy, At World’s End (2007), he reunited with Tim Burton for the first time since Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (2005) to make Sweeney Todd (2007). Burton’s output, on the other hand, [...] [photopress:perfume.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Hell sent Yep, well – the film title kind of gives away what the story’s about, doesn’t it? Well, I’d say yes and no, in fact. Perfume (2006) (to give its short title) was a film I came away from thinking: ‘I enjoyed that, but I’m just not sure why.’ The central character is a distinctly [...] [photopress:diehard_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Past-it action hero All good things…Except in Hollywood, of course, they frequently don’t come to an end, do they? With franchise ‘three-quels’ and fourth installments now all the rage, the time seems wearily appropriate for catching up with John McLane (and, this time around, his grown-up daughter) and booing and hissing at the latest evil villain, [...] Space, camp Galaxy Quest is Star Trek with more [...] |
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