December 2010
3 posts
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Seasonally...
‘There’s children throwing snowballs / instead of throwing heads / they’re busy building toys / and absolutely no one’s dead’ sings Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town who, after having gone for a walk in the forest, accidentally stumbled into Christmas Town.
Masterfully directed by Henry Selick, The Nightmare Before Christmas is a journey into the vividly...
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1
So here we are; the first half of the seventh part of the global phenomenon that is Harry Potter. In writing this review, I’m going to state that I assume you’ve read the novels or watched all of the movies up to this installment. If not, then stop reading. Stopicus Readicus Totallus. The film-makers have thrown no frickin’ bone to people coming to this movie series for the first time. It’s also...
An Affair To Remember / Totally unforgettable
Sometimes, a film manages to its way into the collective cultural consciousness and despite only being reasonably received on release. Obviously, as any film with the 1950s star power of Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr would, An Affair To Remember had some success at the box office, but remarkably for a film that was later voted the fifth greatest romantic film of the 20th Century by the AFI, the...
