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THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD

August 26, 2020 By Leave a Comment

Armando Iannucci, a man possessing a preternatural gift for telling serious stories with a puckish twist, has taken on the classic Dickens tale of David Copperfield, and infused it with sparkling new life while remaining true to the original’s spirit. After all, despite his sometimes cloying sentimentality, Dickens spared his readers nothing when describing the… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, book to screen, Charles Dickens, colonialism, color-blind casting, England, imperialism, literature, social commentary

HOTEL MUMBAI

March 22, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HOTEL MUMBAI

Full of unexpected compassion and humanity, HOTEL MUMBAI is also a harrowing retelling of the 2008 takeover of the fabled Taj Hotel in Mumbai by terrorists whose zeal for religion had been twisted into something horrifying. The standard meet-and-greet of the people whose lives will shortly be forever changed is the only part of the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, fanaticism, India, Mumbai, police action, swat team, terrorism

A Choppy CHAPPIE

March 6, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A Choppy CHAPPIE

CHAPPIE is a cross between Pinicchio and ROBOCOP with a dash of DISTRICT 9.  That last is unsurprising because CHAPPIE is the brainchild of Neill Blomkamp, and many of the elements at work in that earlier film about the meaning of humanity are at work in this one. The battleground is still South Africa, Blomkamp’s… Read More »

Tagged With: class system, corporate politics, engineering, fantasy, gangsters, race relations, robots, science fiction, social commentary, South Africa

THE LAST AIRBENDER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Take a truly robust mythology, access to some of the best CGI houses working today, a budget that allows for location filming outside of Philadelphia, and what do you get? In the hands of former hot property M. Night Shyamalan, you get THE LAST AIRBENDER, an irritating fantasy flick that finds its greatest magic in… Read More »

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Danny Boyle’s brilliant new film, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, is the improbable tale of how innocence triumphs against the most seemingly impossible odds. It begins and ends on the fateful night when Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), a former slum resident, plaything of an indifferent world, and current tea-boy in Mumbai, is about to answer a question on… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, Danny Boyle, Dev patel, filming on location, India, Slumdog Millionaire

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