The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4/10
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is one of the Oscar Grandees this year, and makes a lot of promises on which it does not deliver. Derived from a short story by F Scott Fitzgerald, Fincher has stretched three hours out of twenty minites of content.
Benjamin Button has an extraordinarily [...]
“Not bad, expected better.”
As part of the Bath Film Festival, I attended an advance screening of Oliver Stone’s satirical biopic of US President George W. Bush; a quick-stop tour of his presidency, punctuated by flashbacks of his younger days. W. (pronounced “Dub-ya” and not the British “Double-you” is, surely, a passable piece of entertainment, but [...]
Bath filmmakers are being challenged to produce 60 second films to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Bath Music Festival.Suited and Booted Studios, Bath Film Festival and Media Art Bath have joined forces to issues the challenge to filmmakers of all ages.
All film entries will be compiled into a feature length DVD, to be screened [...]
It looked good in the trailers, but unfortunately, the audience of Jumper is unable to hop from one clip to the next. The premise seemed quirky and creative too; David Rice (Hayden Christensen) is a young man who suddenly discovers that he can teleport anywhere in the world at will.
The film appears very promising at [...]
Being an extra is a very peculiar experience. In fact, I can say with primary evidence that the whole business of “being an extra” is not wholly dissimilar to what you might see on the Ricky Gervais series. (That is, the first series, before his character became famous and stopped being an extra.)
Essentially, the real [...]
