Starring: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Year of Release: 2007
Cate Blanchett is brilliant. Watching her play Elizabeth is truly watching a master at work. So many times she has dazzled us. Her big break to American audiences was the movie Elizabeth which this movie follows. And it was an interesting decision to revisit the same character 10 years later.
Ultimately though the story falls just a little flat. It was just okay. The first movie is clearly a more developed story. This feels a little too loose. And definitely does not have the same intrigue and politics that filled the first film. Through it all Cate Blanchett shines brightly with her near perfect performance. Her sudden shifts from vulnerable to domineering are subtle yet highly effective. And her almost mannequin-like portraits of the Queen are very impressive in their detail and strength.
In summary, watch the movie to see Cate but the story is lacking.
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony
Director: Leon Ichaso
Year of Release: 2007
I have to admit, I didn’t really watch this film. I’m not a JLo fan and I had no interest in it. But I wanted to mention it because I was in the room while my wife watched it and I could easily tell I wasn’t going to like it. Read the rest of this entry »
Starring: Amy Adams, James Marsden, Patrick Dempsey, Susan Sarandon, Timothy Spall
Director: Kevin Lima
Year of Release: 2007
I really liked this one. It was smartly done and Amy Adams steals the show as Giselle. She’s absolutely perfect. She makes you laugh at her without her looking stupid, and she has the convincing air of innocence the character needs without seeming too naive or helpless. The story is an interesting one, having fictional cartoon characters cross over into the real world and become real themselves. It was all kind of a stretch but it worked fine enough. Read the rest of this entry »
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neil
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Year of Release: 1997
This movie is a sort of sci-fi horror film, like a cross between H.P. Lovecraft and Alien. It stars Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neil and is set out in space as Laurence Fishburne’s character captains a ship sent to rescue another ship called the Event Horizon. Sam Neil’s character built it and an experimental engine that creates black holes for the purposes of advanced space travel. But the ship had disappeared and then reappeared but without any of it’s crew. Turns out the experimental engine took the ship to some “evil dimension” and when it came back, the ship was essentially haunted and homicidal. Read the rest of this entry »
