Tag: commentary
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HANNA
Odeon East Kilbride, 06.05.11 There’s so many things that don’t or shouldn’t work in Joe Wright’s latest film that it shouldn’t be any good, yet somehow, it still works as an enjoyable, fast-paced piece of entertainment. There’s not much plot, and what there is seems to be utter nonsense. Hanna (an excellent Saoirse Ronan) is a teenage…
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THOR
in 3D, Cineworld Glasgow, 03.05.11 It was always going to be a difficult ask. As noted in many places, the story of Thor, and his hammer, was always going to be the most difficult of the Marvel Avenger superheroes to translate from comic to screen. In fact, it may well be that the only…
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CEDAR RAPIDS
Cineworld Glasgow, 30.4.11 An introverted, socially awkward insurance salesman, Tim Lippe (Ed Helms), is sent to an annual insurance sales conference when his colleague dies, tasked with winning the award of best small insurance business for the third year in a row, thereby saving the business, and the jobs of the 6 people who work there. But…
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FAREWELL / L’AFFAIRE FAREWELL
Cineworld Glasgow, 29.04.11 Based on true events leading up to the end of the Cold War, Farewell follows the story of Colonel Sergei Gregoriev (Emir Kusturica), a Soviet in Moscow, who begins supplying information to the West, using Pierre Froment (Guillaume Canet), a French engineer, to smuggle out secret Soviet intelligence and crucially a list of high-ranking Soviet spies working in the…
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RENOIR, MY FATHER
RENOIR, MY FATHER Jean Renoir A biography of the Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, by his son, the French film director, Jean. In principle, this is a simple book. A fond, often sentimental, look back at the life one of the great artists of the late 19th, and early 20th, centuries, as remembered by his middle…
Iain Kelly 