Into the Woods review
Into the Wood‘s is the latest of Stephen Sondheim‘s musicals to reach the big screen, an adaptation of the 1987 show set in a set in a storybook world and intertwining multiple Brothers Grimm fairytales with a new central plot and characters. Sondheim composed an additional, eventually unused, song for the film version, for Meryl Streep‘s witch character, … Read more
The Theory of Everything review
The Theory of Everything is a formulaic biopic that frequently passes over the very things in its own story that might have made it worth our time, instead settling for reliable tropes and convenient, simplistic plot beats. Despite what you may have heard, this is not a story that centres on Stephen Hawking. The film was adapted … Read more
Unbroken review
The credits for Unbroken, Angelina Jolie‘s big screen biopic of real life Olympian Louis Zamperini, reads like a wish fulfilment rendering of a cinematic supergroup. First you have a script by the Coen Brothers, William Nicholson and Richard LaGravenese, adapting from a novel, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand. Then you … Read more
Big Eyes review
With narration from gossip columnist Dick Nolan (Danny Huston) neatly providing a little exposition, Big Eyes opens with an easy glide into its 1950s setting, and the introduction of our protagonist, Margaret (Amy Adams). Margaret has packed up her stuff, and with her daughter in tow is leaving her husband – not something, the voiceover tells … Read more