Articles...
Jul 4 2008
WITH great power comes great responsibility . . . not that bona fide superhero Hancock (Smith) cares....
Jul 4 2008
MARK OSBORNE and John Stevenson’s computer animated comedy does exactly what it says on the tin, spinning a story of triumph against the odds around a rotund bear with a passion for martial arts....
Jun 27 2008
THE second book of CS Lewis’s epic series to make it to the big screen reunites the creative talents of The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe for a titanic battle between the Narnians and a race of human usurpers called the Telmarines....
Jun 27 2008
OPENING in the confines of a crowded London Underground shelter during the Blitz, The Edge of Love recounts an inglorious incident in the topsy- turvy life of Dylan Thomas....
Jun 20 2008
FOR years, gardeners have been talking lovingly to flowers and shrubs in the belief that their little beauties respond to intonations of the human voice....
Jun 20 2008
FREEDOM is just a state of mind in The Escapist, a prison break thriller that attempts to breathe new life into the genre....
Jun 13 2008
IF AT first you don’t succeed, try again. Oscar-winning director Ang Lee’s flawed 2003 film adaptation of the not-so-jolly green giant struggled to marry a ponderous screenplay with overblown action set pieces, and a central character who looked more like Shrek’s dishevelled cousin than an unbridled force of rage....
Jun 13 2008
DIRECTOR M. Night Shyamalan has consistently toyed with and subverted expectations, and The Happening will certainly shock and surprise audiences who enjoyed his earlier films like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and The Village, though not in a good way....
Jun 6 2008
ART reflects real life: sometimes with affection, sometimes with brutal honesty that sends a chill down the spine....
Jun 6 2008
SOMEBODY ought to explain to filmmaker Craig Mazin that, in Hollywood, you have to respond quickly to changing tastes....
