With few exceptions, the films that tackle historical periods and their figures best are those that attack their subjects a bit obliquely. When asked to summon a cinematic image of D-Day, for instance, most might think first of Saving Private Ryan, which merely uses Omaha Beach as the visceral prologue to a relatively small-scale (and [...]
Read More Alexandre Desplat, biography, blu-ray, Colin Firth, Danny Cohen, David Seidler, Derek Jacobi, drama, DVD, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, History, King George VI, Lionel Logue, R, The King's Speech, Timothy Spall, Tom HooperA woman dies in a car crash and her husband and their two daughters try to get on with their lives. The younger daughter, Mary, has nightmares about her mother’s death, screaming out for her. The father, a professor, accepts a position teaching for a year in Genoa, hoping the change will help them all [...]
Read More A Summer in Genoa, Catherine Keener, Colin Firth, drama, DVD, Michael Winterbottom, Perla Haney-Jardine, R, romance, Willa HollandThe CGI people in A Christmas Carol, director Robert Zemeckis’ latest performance-capture piece, certainly look more realistic than the creepy-faced things that populated The Polar Express. But they’re still just a little off, enough to make this otherwise entertaining version of the beloved Charles Dickens tale feel as cold-hearted as Ebenezer Scrooge himself.
Read More A Christmas Carol, animation, blu-ray, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth, David, drama, DVD, family, Gary Oldman, Jim Carrey, PG-, Robert Zemeckis, Robin Wright-PennTom Ford is a power player in the world of fashion, having previously chaired the houses of Yves Saint-Laurent and Gucci, as well as his own fashion line. With his self-funded film adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel A Single Man he makes his directorial debut.
Read More A Single Man, Alex, blu-ray, Christopher Isherwood, Colin Firth, drama, DVD, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, R, Tom FordHe was nominated for an Oscar for his work in A Single Man (out this week on DVD and Blu-Ray), but the British actor has been the highlight of a lot of his films to date. Our poll question this week is: What is Colin Firth’s best performance on screen? Check off your answer in [...]
Read More Colin FirthStephan Elliott‘s Easy Virtue, based on Noel Coward‘s 1925 play, offers further evidence that the peculiar world of affluent country life in Britain between the First and Second World Wars persists as an object of both fascination and scorn. Elliot has certainly produced a much closer adaptation than the 1928 silent version (the second film [...]
Read More Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, comedy, DVD, Easy Virtue, Jessical Biel, Kristin Scott Thomas, Noel Coward, PG-13, romance, Stephan Elliott, will