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Dark Shadows 2012
An unholy mess of a movie, not totally without entertainment value but with uneven performances & tonally it’s all over the shop.
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Casablanca 1942
[Breaking my self-imposed 160-character limit when reviewing my favourite films of all time. This is my #1]
Simplicity. If you have to sum up in one word why Casablanca is a classic, this has to be the one. For a film with, by all accounts, such a difficult route to the screen (it was shot sequentially because the script wasn’t finished when filming began) it’s amazing that what we got was so tight, so entertaining and so timeless.
Although the…
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012
Juno-esque (not like the goddess; like the nauseating film) wish-fulfillment exercise by a lazy writer trying to retcon his adolescence. Shallow & clichéd.