When thinking about superheroes who would transition well to the big screen, Iron Man has never been the first character that comes to mind. However, the film, which was released over the weekend, was a hit with critics thanks to a talented cast and a capable director, not to mention audiences hungry for the first big summer action movie. Did it live up to the hype?
Stardust is like a small handful of candy—sweet and tasty, but not nearly enough to keep you satisfied for long. Although the film’s intentions are good, it, as a whole, seems just short of being a complete success. The characters are charming and the sets are fantastic, but the overall feeling of the film is that of an overstuffed fairy tale with barely enough room for its happy ending. That aside, Stardust does accomplish its goal, to tell the epic love tale between a lost prince and a fallen star, as well as the story of the characters they meet and fend off along the way. Read more…
Well, they happened. The 80th Annual Academy Awards went on as usual on Sunday, despite excessively dire predictions during the Writer’s Strike that they weren’t going to happen. And just what would we have done if that had come to pass? Judging from the low ratings, probably not much different from what most people ended up doing.
On February 12, the Writers Guild of America voted to end the strike that has crippled the film and television industry, and has been the cause of the lack of new episodes of TV shows worth watching and the overwhelming number of bad reality TV. So, now that it’s over, why did it even begin and what happens next?
Volver is a hard film to summarize. Though the story is fairly simple, and I use simple freely, the movie has a lot going on with all of its characters. This never, however, harms the film. In fact, Volver is only made better by the quirky characters Pedro Almodóvar, the film’s director and writer, puts into it. Even though the story is indeed creative, it is the characters that he puts in that make this movie, not only memorable, but amazingly so. Read more…
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