New England Film Movement Blog tagged 'Review'

Review: Cloverfield

steve

I love a good sci-fi thriller. Wish I could have seen one tonight. Instead, I was stuckwatching Cloverfield, the newest canker sore on the upper lip of Hollywood. The plot can be summed up with twelve words: Lower Manhattan attacked by mysterious bloodthirsty creature. Panic, gore, and explosions ensue. Throw in a dramatic mockumentary format and some adolescent drama from the CW network, and that’s pretty much Cloverfield.

Since there are only so many forms science fiction [...]

Sweeney Todd Receives Two Thumbs...

Lindsay Shah

That Tim Burton directed Stehpan Sondheim's SWEENEY TODD ought to have been a marriage made in heaven. With Johnny Depp as the Demon Barber with the metaphoric extension of his EDWARD SCISSORHANDS into a razor, this ought to have been a layup. Unfortunately, SWENEY TODD is considerably short of heavenly.

In spite of an impressive production design, London rats and all, the
demands of the film medium, no matter how stylized, still require more verisimilitude than a s [...]

Review: The Golden Compass

steve

A welcome departure from movies geared to the lowest common denominator.

Remember when Gladiator came out? It was a huge success, raking in both box office cash and Oscars. But it also set off the dollar radar in Hollywood, who reasoned that the best way to bring in more of the same was to give the public exactly that. And so, we were subjected to some progressively inferior Big Battle Epics whose only positive contribution to the film-going community was a collective enlighten [...]

Review: Cr� na Cille (Graveyard Clay)

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This review is written by Halyna Hutchins.

Cré na Cille (Graveyard Clay)

Director: Robert Quinn

Cast: Mac dara Ó Fátharta, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Peadar Lamb, Máire Ní Mháille

Cré na Cille, a brilliant adaptation of Mairtin O Cadhain's novel, was presented at the festival in Irish with English subtitles. The story, which draws upon the Dostoevsky short story "Bobok", takes place in mid [...]

Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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You won’t be disappointed

By Emma Carroll

Being a huge fan of the Harry Potter franchise and writing about it in a critical perspective, one might wonder if I should be taken seriously. Most fans will either write, in regards to the 5th film installment (Order of the Phoenix) “It was nothing like the book! I demand my money back!” or “I love Harry Potter, magic is fun and the movie can do no wrong!” But for me, writing about the movie a [...]