Archive for December, 2008
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Released 19th December 2008
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Have you ever had the blood rush to your cheeks, and your stomach somersault after catching the eye of your teen-lust? When you’ve stared too long, agonising over the person you know you can’t have? Well, director Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight rekindles that flush of excitement and racing naive romance experienced only by gangly adolescents. Twilight will bring the awkward, but pivotal moments of your growing-years back to be consumed by the young, and cringed at by the old.
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Released 19th December 2008
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Once upon a time, a gallant mouse fell in love with a human princess and brought peace and hope back to a bleak and unforgiving kingdom, with the help of a banished rat… It all sounds a trifle far-fetched, even in fairy-tale circles, but is actually best-selling author Kate DiCamillo’s beautifully touching and graceful little fable about the power of forgiveness and acceptance, over bigotry and revenge.
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Released 12th December 2008
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We’d all like to know if there is life beyond Earth, but is there life, here, in director Scott Derrickson’s remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic? Well, there appears to be something quite exciting and refreshing in the 2008 version that deals not with man’s violence against man, as in the original, but man’s destruction of the planet. Oh, the irony and terrifying reality that we’re STILL not looking after Mother Earth, which was also a factor of the 1951 film. This moral is what gives its current counterpart its true clout for the contemporary audience. Yes, Al Gore tried to shock us with stats, charts and VT in An Inconvenient Truth, but, just maybe, Klaatu (No.2), played by Keanu Reeves, can drum the message home in a fantasy sci-fi adventure…
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Released 12th December 2008
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The year is 1904, the setting is England, and Henslowe Fisk (Jeremy Northam) has lost both his brother in the Boer War and his mother soon afterwards from grief. Henslowe now dutifully visits his ageing father, Horatio, once a week, but the man is a cantankerous old Victorian who’s only enjoyment is reading the obituaries in The Times. Moreover, Fisk the elder (Peter O’Toole) isn’t given to grieving or tender feelings, despite his bereavements.
