I can remember the eager sense of anticipation when I heard The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was (finally) being made into a major motion picture. See, in primary school, I was a huge fan of the original radio series, which predated the now famous series of books and the somewhat less famous TV series. […] Read more »
A slow-paced, meditative reflection on mortality and our preparedness for death, Afterwards has many good elements, outstanding cinematography, a compelling score from Alexandre Desplatt and a mesmerising, if brief supporting role from Evangeline Lilly. However, the main thrust of the story moves in stilted, increasingly preposterous circles. John Malkovich is fine as the gifted doctor […] Read more »
Writer-director Jonathan Levine (50/50, The Wackness) does a pretty excellent job of adapting Isaac Marion’s novel, Warm Bodies, for the big screen. Nicholas Hoult (best remembered as the young lad opposite Hugh Grant in About A Boy) plays R, an introspective zombie who is struggling to accept his place in a post-apocalyptic world, when he […] Read more »
After acknowledging he dropped the ball with the diabolical train wreck that was TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, director Michael Bay promised audiences something darker and more coherent for the third part of his epic, but so far dramatically inert, Hasbro-inspired trilogy. But when your film makes close to $1 billion at the worldwide box […] Read more »