Tuesday, May 24, 2011
First Lines: Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
Monday, May 23, 2011
The International (2009)
An Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring.
Competent and ambitious, but only fairly imaginative thriller.
First Lines: Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Will and Jake Grimm are travelling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires genuine courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.
On second viewing I still agree with my previous opinion: occasionally visually interesting, but otherwise quite silly and over-the-top.
Quotes from Samuel Beckett: Molloy
There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.
