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Very ordinary adaptation of Chris Cleave's novel (released two days before the 2005 London bombings) about the effects of a suicide terrorist attack on a London football stadium on one woman's life. Michelle Williams turns in her best performance to date as the young mother in question and Ewan McGregor plays the Journalist who becomes her crutch. Writer/director Sharon Bridget Jones' Diary MacGuire marshals proceedings with all the manipulative hysteria of David Blunkett. Those looking for naturalistic polemicism of Kenny Gleenan, Ken Loach or Alan Clarke on this impertant Subject will need to look elsewhere. A
THRILLER COMEDY results here are closer to the Coen’s last outing with waste of talent. Selected release BURN AFTER READ|NG Clooney - Intolerable Cruelty. Like that film, Burn After from Fri 24 Oct. (15) 95mm ... Reading feels like its been cobbled together just so a High School Musical 3: bunch of big name stars can have more fun making it Senior Year (U) 111min Modern idiocy and bleak humour are the order of the than you will watching it. 0. In an effort to draw even day in the Coen’s latest - a reworking (conscious or Look over these filmmakers’ fantastic body of work more money out of their besotted otherwise) of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in and it is clear that they share with Pirandello a need to young fans. Disney's High School Search of An Author. vividly demonstrate the limitations of film/theatre as a Musical phenomenon leaps from Foul-mouthed CIA analyst Osbourne Cox (John medium of storytelling and as such this film is an pay per View and DVD onto the Malkovich) quits his job after being demoted and exercise in meta-film (an attempt to address larger big screen. This time high school decides to write his tell-all memoirs. His wife Katie issues of existence and creativity through the most seniors Troy (Zac Efron) and (Tilda Swinton) is having an affair with vain treasury innocuous of generic forms). All of which is fine if the Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) agent Harry (George Clooney). Sometime later, across central meditations on modern stupidity, narcissism, prepare for separation before they town at Osbourne’s gym, slow-witted employees Chad suburban froideur and the pointlessness of espionage head off to different colleges by (Brad Pitt) and cosmetic surgery obsessed Linda exchange were not couched in such terminal staging an elaborate spring (Frances McDormand) happen upon a disc belonging to dumbness, misanthropy and grotesquery. By anyone musical with the rest of the Osbourne. A shaggy, punctured tyre, blackmail thriller else’s standards Burn After Reading is a perfectly Wildcats. Every bit as nauseating ensues with requisite outbreaks of shock tactic serviceable comedy spy thriller. By their standards it’s as it setinds (unless you are a violence and absurdist plotting. below par. There are, however, some considerable child under its shamanistic Broad, cartoony and peppered with the type of compensations - Malkovich is terrific and the Coen’s powers). HSM 3 does. however. subversive humour that the brothers have made their regular composer Carter Burwell’s bombastic take advantage of the big screen own, Burn After Reading attempts to equate the percussion-heavy score (massively influenced by Jerry format with some impressive current vogue for paranoid spy thrillers (most Goldsmith’s score for John Frankenheimer’s 1962 ensemble music and dance noticeably the Bourne films) with the kind of zany thriller Seven Days in May) is his best work to date. numbers. General release from character driven comedy/drama at which the siblings (Paul Dale) Wed 22 Oct. excel (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona). The I General release from Fri (7 Oct.
COMEDY ROMANCF GHOST TOWN (12A) 102min coo
Middle-aged smock-wearing tooth iockey' (dentist) Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a hateful runt of a man. He lives a life as contained as it is misanthropic. After going into hospital for an endoscopy. Bertram starts to see dead people — one of whom, Frank iGreg Kinneari. is about to change Bertrain's life by introducing him to Widower Gwen (Tea Leonii.
A-list US screenwriter Dawd Koepp. the man responsrble for the final drafts of Spider-lvlan and Indiana Jones /\/. dons his occasional director cap (Stir of Echoes. The Secret Window) for this Manhattan-set interpretation of A Christmas Carol. The reSults are predictably bland but not WithOuI their merits. Giving his first feature film lead role proper lthough sharing top billing wrth support Kinnearl Gervais is excellent. Through what was clearly an improwsational process he builds nuance and depth onto what must have appeared on paper to be a one-dimensional portrait of a social cripple. When he does what he can do well. he upgrades the film to something far more Jack Lemmon-esque and heartwarming. Also there are some great Visual gags here (mostly borrowed from the Marx Brothers. but who cares?)
Unbelievable character arcs. bad writing and some really miserable pacing ultimately undo all the good work. of course. Ghost Town was a box office disaster in the US. European audiences may be kinder. (Paul Dale)
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