I haven’t seen Marguerite, Xavier Giannoli’s film, still in cinemas, which tells a more fictionalised version of the same story, so I’m not sure how it plays, but screenwriter Nicholas Martin and veteran director Stephen Frears have pulled off a neat trick with the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins: they’ve made it the story of her husband. Hugh…
DetailsIn the spirit of full disclosure, let me admit, at the very top, that I’m not a fan of villains. Having experienced some villainy in my up-bringing, I don’t relish wallowing in it at the cinema. While I’ll fantasize about villainy, I never side with it. I’m much more hero-oriented (always the Doctor over Daleks,…
DetailsSalutations, my little droogies! Let’s get ready for another edition of “What the Hell are you talking about?!” Film News this week! Might be some extra stuff this week because next week, yours truly is off the Las Vegas for the 5th Anniversary Star Trek Convention! I’ll be pretty bust doing Trek-type stuff that involves…
DetailsThis time around Jason Bourne finds himself pitted against… the Director of the CIA. I seem to remember this was the basis of the first Bourne movie, but it’s been an awfully long time. I didn’t see the last one, with Jeremy Renner instead of Matt Damon, but Damon is back in this one, and he’s become very beefy.…
DetailsRumor has it that best-selling author Robert Ludlum sold the original 1980 Bourne novel, The Bourne Identity, with a one sentence pitch: “What if James Bond got amnesia?” Seems like it’s no accident that both heroes’ names start with the initials J.B. It’s also probably no coincidence that, when left with a choice between Henry Cavill…
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