Glasgow Film Theatre, 27.07.11 The first hour of Eric Lartigau's The Big Picture is a French thriller straight form the plot of a classic Claude Chabrol film of the 1960's or early '70's, when Chabrol was turning out Hitchcockian thrillers at a rapid pace - two, sometimes three, a year. Indeed, one of Chabrol's best,…
CARTE BLANCHE
The new James Bond novel, by Jeffrey Deaver. The last novel authorised by the Fleming Estate was in 2007 , when Sebastian Faulks chose to write as Ian Fleming and deliver a classic cold war Bond tale in Devil May Care. It was set in the 1960's, contemporary with Fleming's original novels and tried to imitate both…
HORRIBLE BOSSES
Cineworld Glasgow, 22.07.11 With the global recession rumbling on and economies showing no signs of coming back into the black (in the week of the UK release, the EU agreed a second bail out for Greek economy, while the US teetered on the brink of defaulting on its' debt), it would seem the perfect opportunity…
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
Cineworld Glasgow, 08.07.11 One of my favourite entries in one of the best film study books available is David Thomson's entry for Michael Bay in his New Biographical Dictionary of Film (5th edition), which he finishes with: So, in the event that Mr Bay is ever looking for help, I'll spell it out here-he makes…
GREEN LANTERN
Cineworld Glasgow, 24.06.11 Martin Campbell seems to have created a niché market for himself as a director expert in launching, or rather re-launching, known popular characters. Twice he has introduced the world to a new James Bond, first with Pierce Brosnan in 1995's Goldeneye, and then with Daniel Craig in 2006's Casino Royale - both with great…
