Tag: commentary
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RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
Odeon East Kilbride, 17.08.11 Along with the trend in recent years for the Hollywood studios to rely more and more on sequels and known franchises for their big budget summer films. Rather than recognising that a franchise is dead, has run its course and every possible storyline has been mined, studios have begun rebooting films in order…
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SUPER 8
Cineworld Glasgow, 05.08.11 What’s this oddity arriving in cinema in this summer of 2011? It’s a summer Hollywood film, but it’s not based on a comic book superhero, it’s not a sequel, (nor is it franchise-friendly opener), it doesn’t star any big names, and it’s not a remake of a European or Asian hit, it’s not…
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THE BIG PICTURE / L’HOMME QUI VOULAIT VIVRE SA VIE
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,…
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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…
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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…
Iain Kelly 