Helena Bonham Carter as dotty/evil Miss Havisham!), the anticipation for “Great Expectations” was, well, great. The film itself feels like it’s only halfway there, a dress rehearsal for a better version. Directed with the best of intentions by Mike Newell (“Harry Potter and the Goblet...
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Francis, an actress who was obviously being groomed for a career that never quite arrived at this time (see also Bad Day at Black Rock, 1955), is best-remembered to movie fans for her role here, and the deft way she handles these scenes is a great part of why she deserves to be, ...
Game of Thrones ultimately ran into a problem of expectations in a narrative that built its initial appeal around willingness to confound expectations. And confound it did. Ned, played by the nominal series lead and best-known cast member, doesn’t survive the first season, and subsequent plot...
I found myself fighting off tears at the end of the film, not necessarily out of sadness but mostly out of joy. Lightning was captured in a bottle once again, and it feels great. Also, massive props to Mckenna Grace who I think carried this film. Without her portrayal of Phoebe, the...
Enter our young mother played by Lee Ji-eun. As Moon So-young , she can spit fire; but, before we know her heavy history, Hong Kyung- pyo illuminates the screen with golden-bronzed rain. She is plodding her way to being cleansed. Later, he uses chiaroscuro to great effect as each fa...
Time travel is one of fiction’s great devices and has inspired so many creative and entertaining movies. This isn’t one of them. Continue reading DVD review → The Exorcist: Believer Reviewed: Luke Bonanno on October 4, 2023 Theatrical Release: October 6, 2023 With a handful of jump sc...
Great art — a product of human suffering and something to which this television show consciously aspires — is the work of men to prevent their children from making the same mistakes they did, to “error correct” man’s impulses to violence. And thus it is art that emerges as the ...
The day that Anders set off for Sweden, the airport was stormed by thousands of fans screaming: “Anders, come back. Anders, come back!” Although he had to leave, Anders was determined to pick up where he left off, starting up The Kontinentals again in Sweden. He’s a great guy, ...
Snyder paints the Veldt community, which seems to have deliberately patterned itself after Viking-era villages, and Kora’s place in it, in a manner that evokes their idyllic, tight-knit communality, whilst also acerbically denying whatever expectations about traditionalist yokels they might suggest...