Those of a more cynical nature may scoff at this (and certainly some of the scores on here would indicate a lot of criticism), but Meg Ryan's directorial debut will no doubt win over those who miss the days when the rom-com genre was defined by the works of Nora Ephron, whom this is dedicated to, and Nancy Meyers.
You remember those days; moderately budgeted crowd-pleasers featuring two big-name stars sharing chemistry that flips from humorously bickering to poignantly tender…
Sofia Coppola's latest feels like a direct counter argument to so many previous depictions of the Presley family. Where everything has inevitably been centered on Elvis himself, instead Coppola delivers another in a great line of magnificent female driven stories by capturing the viewpoint of Priscilla Presley.
This being a Sofia Coppola film, it looks luminous throughout, but she has always had a knack for capturing inner sadness and the more tentative emotions amongst glossy trappings. The halls of Graceland…
Lacks some of the finesse and smart narrative touches of the first film, but the second Final Destination makes up for that by going full throttle with the set-pieces which frequently up the carnage and bloodshed to ludicrously enjoyable levels.
Having made a mark contributing to The X-Files and Millennium, collaborators James Wong and Glen Morgan inevitably made the move to the big screen and helped launch a horror franchise whose first installment pre-dated 9/11 but which would continue beyond and deal head on with themes of generational trauma and survival guilt framed against national tragedies
There is a fun level of ingenuity and creativity to be had in making the hand of fate the slasher killer at the heart…
A massively disappointing follow up to Threat Level Midnight, I expected more from Michael Scott.
The moment when James Stewart's character tells Katherine Hepburn's that "there's a magnificence in you" and it cuts to the nost luminous medium close-up of Hepburn..THAT'S cinema.
