Tag: art
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THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN
Odeon East Kilbride, 08.11.11 One of the nicest touches about Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of the boy reporter Tintin occurs just after the opening credit sequence – itself a charming animation in its own right as it follows the distinctive silhouette of Tintin on a foot chase through Hergé’s memorable world. We are then situated in a…
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MELANCHOLIA
Cineworld Glasgow, 04.10.11 Lars Von Trier certainly divides opinion. Love his films, or hate them, there is no middle ground. After his infamous Cannes press conference, where he was supposed to be discussing his latest major film, Melancholia, but instead got caught discussing Nazism and sympathising with Hitler (it was all a misunderstood joke), the same…
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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Odeon East Kilbride, 16.09.11 The popular truth is that the demographic of cinema-goers is made up of primarily the 16-24 years old age group, and as such, if you want to have a hit movie then you have to appeal to the sensibilities of that group. Action, sex, comedy, celebrities to the fore; drama, literary…
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ONE DAY
Odeon East Kilbride, 24.08.11 The novel One Day by David Nicholls takes the typical boy meets girl story and spreads it over twenty years by focusing on where each of the main characters, Emma and Dexter, are on one day – the 15th of July – every year from 1988 to 2008. It’s a neat trick…
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COWBOYS & ALIENS
Odeon East Kilbride, 21.08.11 After the success of Super 8 (J.J. Abrams, 2011) at the start of the month, the summer of films has taken something of an upturn in fortune, which continues with Jon Favreau’s latest action genre mash-up, Cowboys & Aliens. Like Super 8, Cowboys & Aliens has taken a tried and tested genre,…
Iain Kelly 