As well as that, three brand-new reviews were published this week...
Green Lantern: Extended Cut (2011)
my expectation that the film would be irredeemably awful is at least partly why I found it surprisingly enjoyable... I’m not going to try to argue Green Lantern is a great movie, or even that it doesn’t contain significant flaws, but as a comic book-y two-hour diversion, I found it passably entertaining.Read more here.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
My Harry Potter retrospective resumes with a new director bringing a new energy to the franchise.Read more here.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
One of the more overlooked facets of Rowling’s work is her penchant for allegory and gentle satire... Here it’s the press under fire. Rita Skeeter may have a greatly reduced role compared to the novel, but her Quick-Quotes Quill — which, essentially, just makes stuff up — is present and correct.Read more here.
And also, new to the new blog...
For Your Consideration (2006)
The best bits come in the second half, when the cast and crew of the fictional film-within-a-film hit the campaign trail. The styles of TV shows that various people appear on — the different levels awarded to the leads, other cast members, the writers, and so on — has some decent satireRead more here.
Once (2006)
a very modern indie musical. And I mean indie as in “indie film”, not “indie music”. Lord save us from a musical of indie music.Read more here.
Primer (2004)
there’s a great conceit here, with a decent plot built around it; but it drags the idea of treating your audience’s intelligence with respect too far into the realms of Simply Not Explaining Things ProperlyRead more here.
Star Trek (2009)
It’s Star Trek, Jim, but not as we know it.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
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