Tag: alanrickman
The Many Faces Of Alan Rickman
This week, we can all return to Wonderland in James Bobin's Alice Through the Looking Glass, though Peter Martin doesn't really much recommend that in his review. Still, one familiar face, or rather voice, is there to greet us: Alan...
Gasparilla 2016: Gavin Hood Talks EYE IN THE SKY
The road from Indie to Hollywood and back again has been a bumpy one for South African director Gavin Hood. Following his TIFF People’s Choice-winning Tsotsi he was offered New Line thriller Rendition, and proceeded to tackle big budget monsters...
Review: EYE IN THE SKY, Complex, Darkly Funny, But...
Tsotsi and Rendition director Gavin Hood has set himself a difficult task on multiple levels with his latest effort, Eye In The Sky. He is, first of all, tackling fabulously thorny and morally complex material as he weighs the question...
RIP Alan Rickman
Cancer has been busy in the pop cultural world in the first couple weeks of 2016. Stage and Movie star (and silky-voiced villain) Alan Rickman has succumbed to a battle with cancer at aged 69.Depending on your age (and geographical...
Toronto 2015 Review: EYE IN THE SKY, A Complex And Darkly Funny Look At The War On Terror
Tsotsi and Rendition director Gavin Hood has set himself a difficult task on multiple levels with his latest effort, Eye In The Sky. He is, first of all, tackling fabulously thorny and morally complex material as he weighs the question...
Venice 2013 Dispatch, Last Days: Saying Goodbye To Tsai Ming-liang
The 70th Venice film festival will be over in 48 hours. With almost all of the competition films having screened, we still have no idea who could actually bring the awards home. On the contrary of the past editions, this...
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 on BluRay.
Saw this again the other day and just have to say it is an incredibly moving finish to a film series that had a lot of hurdles to overcome, not the least of which was adapting multiple huge books into...
A SHORT INTERVIEW WITH A LONGBOTTOM: Matthew Lewis of the Potter Franchise
A chance to talk to Matthew Lewis aka Neville Longbottom was a chance to talk to cultural royalty. Through the course of eight film he's grown up in front of us emerging as the unlikeliest of heroes in the worlds...
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 Review
You're in or you're out. And in an age in which film franchises are constantly rebooting, and the origins of superheroes are endlessly explored, the intransigence of this particular series is refreshing. As with its immediate predecessors, Harry Potter and...
