King Arthur: Legend of the Sword movie review: well I didn’t vote for him
Derivative, rote, devoid of heart and hope. Guy Ritchie has found no reason to retell Arthur’s story, or to render a mythic hero as a self-serving thug.
Eric Bana
The Finest Hours movie review: that sinking feeling
See this for Casey Affleck: he exudes a classic cinematic masculinity here. Alas, the rest of the film is old-fashioned in ways that are downright stodgy.
Deliver Us from Evil movie review: weak spirits
A rote police procedural conducted by a cardboard movie cop investigating a supposedly demonic evil that simply cannot compete with nonsupernatural reality.
Closed Circuit review: cheating in the War on Terror
Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall are as engaging as ever, and the film raises intriguing issues concerning the “War on Terror”; pity the plot descends into the ridiculous.
because time machines aren’t pink enough?
Wouldn’t it be amazing if women protagonists had the opportunity to keep jumping back in time until they could get their lives just the way they want them? Ah, but that would require a movie with a female protagonist…
Deadfall (trailer)
I feel like I’ve seen this movie a hundred times before. Not with Eric Bana, though, so that could make it worth a look…
Hanna (review)
Joe Wright makes sure his story looks great — and sounds great, with its aurally spectacular Chemical Brothers score — but it’s an empty experience, a Frankenstein story with no heft, indeed with little apparent awareness of the classic tale it is evolved from.
Tyler Perry tells Spike Lee to go to hell; an apology for ‘Superman Returns’; Canadians hate loud TV ads; more: leftover links
Plus: Even rightwing bloggers admit Atlas Shrugged sucks; Restrepo director Tim Hetherington killed covering fighting in Libya; Jodie Foster on yet another way Hollywood hates women…
trailer break: ‘Hanna’
An action fantasy movie about a girl? Awesome. More like this, please.
question of the day: Which actors deserve to be bigger stars than they are?
Peter Bradshaw at the *Guardian*’s Film blog the other day asked, ‘Why isn’t *Salt* star Chiwetel Ejiofor up there with Russell Crowe?’ Which is an excellent question.
