Out to own today:
X-Men: Days of Future Past
| “We were young, we didn’t know any better,” Magneto (Ian McKellen) The 2020s are bleak. A devastated Manhattan is the home to a mutant prison camp. A mini-army of virtually indestructible biomechanical warriors, the Sentinels, able to take on the abilities of super-powered individuals, are rounding up and killing the gifted, their human helpers, and any that contain the genes to father and grandfather such offspring. Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Magneto, Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and Storm (Halle Berry) have come across a rogue band of mutants still at large, evading capture through a form of time travel. As extinction looms for their species, the only option left to the X-Men is a mind-boggling strategy: Send Wolverine’s conscience back to his 1973 ever-young body, before Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) triggers the Sentinel programme into existence. [To read more, click here.] |
Begin Again
| “That’s what I love about music: They invest even the most banal with so much meaning,” Dan (Mark Ruffalo) to Greta (Keira Knightley) You remember ONCE right? The loveliest movie of 2006. Connecting far beyond its indie roots, there is even now a theatre musical adaptation currently running. Since then writer-director John Carney has unfortunately not made the cinematic splash predicted. And perhaps that is why he has returned to a romantic drama set in the music industry. Upping the slickness, budget and A-list casting, while wisely retaining singer-songwriter Glen Hansard as a musical contributor, he has taken ONCE and made it bigger. Has he made it better? [To read more, click here.] |
Jersey Boys
| “Calm down Vito. What’s a bit of blood between friends?” Gyp DeCarlo (Christopher Walken) What was director Clint Eastwood thinking? That is three duds in a row from the inconsistently excellent filmmaker (see previously J. EDGAR and HEREAFTER). JERSEY BOYS is dead on arrival, a lifeless uber-bland musical. Where is the Clint of MYSTIC RIVER or LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA or CHANGELING? For two-and-a-quarter interminable hours, the theatrical musical adaptation had the feel of a song-infused daytime soap opera. [To read more, click here.] |
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