Judi Dench
To say Marilyn Monroe is an icon is like saying the sky is blue – it’s an indisputable fact. We’re familiar with her on-screen presence, her breathtaking Playboy spread, and her high profile marriages and affairs. But few have attempted to document the tragedy that lurked behind the headlines in a way that wasn’t sensationalist. My Week with Marilyn is a glimpse at the girl behind the star....
This week’s releases include: a demonstration of the survival of the fittest; the true story of daring journalists; a cop that doesn’t play by the rules; a future that must confront its violent past; the defeat of a terrorist hijacking; a sequel to a contemporized Grimm fairy tale; an overdramatic love story; the anthropomorphising of a Labrador retriever; a teenager’s date with his dream woman; a couple of Muppets adventures; a unique take on the vampire; and an explosive story of revenge....
Film adaptations of well-known, highly acclaimed books are risky endeavours because it is impossible to capture everything within the novel and live up to every reader’s perception of it. It can be difficult to perceive the movie as its own thing without reverting to comparisons with the work that inspired it. Since Jane Eyre was a teenage fixation of mine, I couldn’t really avoid letting it have an effect on how I took in Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation. I found that this version represents the essence of the novel’s character extremely well, but the overall structure of the film lacked consistency...
With Rob Marshall’s latest musical effort Nine it is no surprise that the only thing he able to perfect was his marketing campaign and diversity in casting choices. If any of you have the expectation or hope that Marshall’s interpretation of a Fellini classic is even close to his Academy Award winning 2002 jazz musical Chicago, please make sure your expectations are lowered immediately. The simplistic story begins with Guido Contini, the always hypnotizing Daniel Day-Lewis, a cinematic God and notorious socialite. Contini is on the verge of releasing details on his newest feature Italia without a script and without...
