Archives by Tag 'film'
Alice In Wonderland (3D) Review
Stuart Young Investigates…
Mad about Alice?
Alice in Wonderland arrives this Friday on a wave of hype, controversy, and marketing. Foremost is the dispute over which cinemas would agree to show the film – Disney intends to release the DVD in a lightning-fast three months which will cut into movie audiences. Then there’s the impressive volume of press coverage, the promising trailer, the big names attached; from every angle, the expectation associated with Alice threatens to overwhelm the film itself.
Based on the children’s books by Lewis Carroll (the rather less snappily titled Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There) this version is directed by Tim Burton, the eccentric filmmaker responsible for The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sweeney Todd and several other classics of the beloved-by-teenage-girls-who-wear-too-much-eyeliner variety. Read More
Review: Youth In Revolt
Tim B-G lays one down on the new film ‘Youth In Revolt’.
Youth in Revolt is a new comedy based on the novel of the same name by C.D. Payne. It tells the story of Nick Twisp, an awkward, outcast teenager. Like many teen comedies the central character, and his equally outcast friends, are obsessed with that teenage Holy Grail, sex. Read More
Review – Playing with the Past, Filmhouse, 22nd August 2009
No surprises here then – three of Edinburgh’s finest and most creative bands compose new music to accompany archive film footage selected from the Scottish Film Archive’s ample collection and perform it live while the films are projected onto the big screen – it was always going to be good. Add to that the rapturous reports from the first time this event was staged (as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June) and it was pretty much a shoo-in for a great night’s entertainment.
Leave a Comment