Archive for the Tag 'Jim Broadbent'

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE – Reviewed by Will

When the eminent Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron was brought on to direct the third (and still best) Harry Potter movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban, he proved that the franchise would be strongest when it  departed from a rote retelling of J.K. Rowling’s books and charted its own identity and style. As the books progressed, each [...]

3 comments Saturday 12 Dec 2009 | blogadmin | action/adventure, blu-ray, kid's & family, movie reviews, recommendations, sci-fi / fantasy

INKHEART – Reviewed by David

While I haven’t read the book by German author Cornelia Funke that inspired this $60 million fantasy starring Brendan Fraser, I can say with some certainty that it’s probably much, much better than the lackluster lump of a movie director Iain Softley makes out of it.
The gimmick here is that Fraser can bring characters in [...]

2 comments Thursday 25 Jun 2009 | blogadmin | action/adventure, kid's & family, movie reviews, sci-fi / fantasy