DVD: In the Dark Half (15)
If there’s macramé or anything vaguely knotty in a British film you know it’s going to be creepy – this country’s foremost genre.
October 6, 2012
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If there’s macramé or anything vaguely knotty in a British film you know it’s going to be creepy – this country’s foremost genre.
After a rather protracted set-up, in which Michael Fassbender scene steals as the prim android David 8, it’s business as usual in this fifth, grandiose slice of Alien.
This year’s second live-action version of Snow White re-imagines the fairy tale as a dark, rain-lashed, mud-spattered epic, full of siege engines, burning villages, and all sorts of borrowings from the work of Tolkien and C S Lewis.
“Our daughter has been abducted by one of your beige lunatics,” maintains Bill Murray’s concerned dad in this charming tale (above) of two runaways, orphaned Sam (Jared Gilman) and cross Suzy (Kara Hayward), a pair of ostracized 12-year-olds who fall in love.
When a gang of good-looking students goes to stay in the eponymous holiday accommodation, they’re soon being menaced by supernatural forces.
Nine years since the last one, this fourth slice of American Pie is filled to the crust with affection for its characters – but it relies on the audience having that same affection.
If not quite at the level of Wallace and Gromit’s were-rabbit adventure, Aardman’s latest stop-motion feature has its own charm, not least in the figure of its leading man, the Pirate Captain.
NEW YORK — Ben & Jerry’s is suing the maker of “Ben & Cherry’s” X-rated DVDs, saying the “hardcore pornographic” films have smeared the ice cream maker’s reputation. The trademark lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in New York City.
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time: a scenic comedy based on a hit comic novel, with a romance between Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt at its heart.