4 stars**** Nick Horby’s ‘Fever Pitch’ had set the previous high mark for a serious football film; now Looking For Eric has beaten it hands down and we’re looking at the new number one. Paul Laverty was written an excellent screenplay (I’ve just ordered my copy to study it more closely) that conveys a diverse [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 1, 2009
2 stars ** So here’s what the directors and writers did; they sat around a large table with lots of movie industry (but not football) people. They spent hours writing down ideas on little pieces of paper. Each idea contained a scene or incident that ‘could’ happen during a movie about a boy that grows [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 28, 2008
(DVD 2006) 3 stars*** Basic Instinct was a spine-chilling movie, with a masterful screenplay by Joe Eszterhas. It also had one of those strange endings: it kept the audience talking and thinking – just who did commit the murders and if it was Catherine Tramell, then why didn’t she get to spend her due time [...]
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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