Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“Life can even bring down the strong” The stats are incredible: 125 artists animating a feature-length film over seven years based on 800 personal letters with 65,000 individually-painted oil frames. You read those numbers and wonder if it was worth the trouble when a traditionally shot narrative featuring its faux “rotoscoped” actors would have been […]
Category animation, biography, film reviews · Tags Aidan Turner, Cezary Lukaszewicz, Chris O'Dowd, Dorota Kobiela, Douglas Booth, Eleanor Tomlinson, Helen McCrory, Hugh Welchman, Jerome Flynn, John Sessions, Loving Vincent, Robert Gulaczyk, Saoirse Ronan
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“Where are your designated adults?” When Hugo was announced as Martin Scorsese’s next film, little was mentioned about Brian Selznick’s Caldecott Medal-winning source material, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The big news was the auteur relishing an opportunity to helm his first family film and willingly delve into the world of 3D—a medium seen mostly […]
Category action/adventure, drama, family, film reviews · Tags Asa Butterfield, Auguste Lumière, Avatar, Ben Kingsley, Brian Selznick, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Lee, Emily Mortimer, Frances de la Tour, Georges Méliès, Helen McCrory, Hugo, John Logan, Jude Law, L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, Le Voyage dans la Lune, Louis Lumière, Martin Scorsese, Michael Stuhlbarg, Ray Winstone, Richard Griffiths, Sacha Baron Cohen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“His name is Voldemort, Filius. You might as well use it. He’s going to try and kill you either way.” Every story must come to an end and the saga of Harry Potter and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is no exception. Splitting the final novel of J.K. Rowling’s epic tale of wizardry into two films makes it so […]
Category action/adventure, family, fantasy, film reviews · Tags Alan Rickman, Alexandre Desplat, Ciarán Hinds, Daniel Radcliffe, David Yates, Eduardo Serra, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Evanna Lynch, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Heath Ledger, Helen McCrory, Helena Bonham Carter, J.K. Rowling, Jason Isaacs, John Cleese, Kelly MacDonald, Kenneth Branagh, Maggie Smith, Matthew Lewis, Ralph Fiennes, Return of the King, Rupert Grint, Steve Kloves, The Lord of the Rings, Tom Felton, Warwick Davis
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