The White Ribbon – DVD Giveaway
Michael Haneke’s critically acclaimed epic The White Ribbon has swept the globe and you can win it on DVD.
Enter and winThe design is pure Burton: the familiar twisted, claw-like trees, the fairground grotesquerie, but what’s back and what we missed recently is that he seems to be having fun.
Shutter Island is a faithful, detailed movie not set in 1954, but of 1954. Scorsese is fully flexing his cinephilic chops.
Whereas the original, Nathalie…, is virtually devoid of any tension and anticipation, Chloe is a Hitchcock thriller for the 21st century.
Neil Jordan’s whimsical tale full of Celtic charm, Ondine, will make sure that you fall in love with Ireland all over again.
If you haven’t quite got the message from Hollywood yet, folks, it’s this: Wake up and smell the diner coffee now, or post-apocalyptic doom awaits us all.
Adapting any novel is a challenge; faithful readers can be very demanding, wanting films to live up to their high expectations.
In purely cinematic terms this has more the feel of a made-for-TV weepie. One that probably won’t even make you weep.
Jackson and his tag along writing team strip back the complex story of this probably unfilmable book to a core plot of whimsy and sentimentality.
According to Irish tradition, a lady may propose to a man on the 29th February which, of course, only occurs in a Leap Year.
In the same way that it’s funny seeing a dog wearing clothes, there is something amusing about a wolfed-up Benicio Del Toro still wearing a suit.