Captain America: First Avenger ends with the saddest last line in blockbuster history. Chris Evans delivers it beautifully: unexpected, gentle, agonisingly poignant. But the movie doesn’t seem to notice. It triumphantly roll the credits, you walk out of the cinema wondering why your heart just decompressed inside your chest, and off we zoom to next year’s superhero-a-thon The Avengers. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for July, 2011
Film review: Captain America – First Avenger
On July - 27 - 2011
Film review: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows 2
On July - 21 - 2011
For you, it’s been nearly 20 hours of cinema. For them, it’s been a lifetime. After 10 years, seven movies, four directors and a truckload of exposition, the Harry Potter’s saga finally matures into the spectacular, propulsive and emotionally satisfying blockbuster it should have been from the start. Read the rest of this entry »
James Franco: 127 Hours
On July - 7 - 2011
It was like capturing a picture of the Yeti or the end of a rainbow. But in the middle of a lecture at Columbia university in March 2009, one student with a camera-phone finally snapped it: James Franco asleep. Head hung back on his shoulders. Jaw gently unlatched. Hands folded over his notebook.
So this dynamo actor/student/artist/writer/model/ joker was human, after all. But Franco wasn’t sleeping. He was busy. Busy answering the question, the same question he would keep asking Danny Boyle. Read the rest of this entry »
Werner Herzog: Cave Of Forgotten Dreams
On July - 7 - 2011
Which places on Earth would still love to visit?
There are few out there that I know I should see before I die. But let’s not talk about it, because otherwise I’ll find a horde of tourists there.
So where is your favourite place on Earth?
Of course I’m very fond of the jungle, of Amazonia, but as a landscape and for the people, I really like the arid north east of Brazil a lot. Read the rest of this entry »
Film review: The Tree Of Life
On July - 7 - 2011
Two things before we start on Terrence Malick’s philosophical, spiritual, experimental, transcendent, cosmic odyssey. One: it’s shorter than Transformers 3. Two: it has dinosaurs in it. But really, where on earth do we start? Not on Earth. Not at the start. Further back. In The Beginning… Read the rest of this entry »
