Last year, Disney Nature’s first film, Earth disappointed with its too loud score, ambivalent script [animals are like us; no, they’re not] and a tendency to talk about the circle of death but not show it. Other than its beautiful cinematography, James Earl Jones’ voice and some great clips of the crew actually filming the documentary, it was something less than a triumph.
Oceans, I’m pleased to report, has dialled the score down from Pink-Floyd-in-concert volume, the script doesn’t try too hard to anthropomorphize the sea-going mammals and fish the film displays. Even when the film turns to the problems with the ecology, Pierce Brosnan’s narration makes the point without belabouring it.
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Disney Nature,
Earth Day,
Oceans,
Pierce Brosnan
Christopher Columbus clearly learned a lesson from working on the first Harry Potter films – a film doesn’t need to be slavishly adapted from a book to be successful. The Lightning Thief may be almost two hours long, but it mostly zips right along. Not only are entire subplots from the book eliminated, but several characters have been cut, too.
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20th Century Fox,
Catherine Keener,
Greek Gods,
Logan Lerman,
Pierce Brosnan
Married Life is a Douglas Sirkish melodrama with noir overtones. Based on the John Bingham novel Five Roundabouts to Heaven, it’s the story of a married man who has fallen in love with another [younger] woman, but won’t leave his wife because he’s afraid it would destroy her life. Rather than divorce her, he therefore resolves to murder her – humanely – to save her from the pain it would cause her.
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Chris Cooper,
Patricia Clarkson,
Pierce Brosnan,
Rachel McAdams
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