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Their story unraveled with the melodrama and economy of a soap opera. And on Sunday morning, with every exotic plot twist and incredible detail seemingly exhausted, it reached its end. John Darwin, the missing kayaker who resurfaced, claiming amnesia, more than five years after apparently drowning, and his wife, Anne, are now both in custody...
...boldly greenlighted Peter Jackson's $300 million Hobbit ambitions before a frame of the first movie was shot, and made billions from riding that risk, hasn't said yes to films two and three of the Pullman books - although the first movie ends with a chatty preview of the plot in the sequels, should they ever be made. For now, viewers will have to take that on faith...
...proved he was a confident shepherd of child actors. But he's not up to helming a superproduction like this. (At one point he dropped out of directing the film for that very reason.) Faithful to the novels' narrative if not their philosophy, his movie bustles through the plot twists and lightning characterizations as if it were its own Cliff Notes, rarely taking the time to acquaint the audience with Lyra's allies and enemies. Even a genre film has to relax; it's in the quieter moments that epic fantasies find their richness...
...powerhouse acting. It remains to be seen how closely the script mirrors the book (Wright had significant modifications made to the original screenplay adaptation by Christopher Hampton), but if “Pride and Prejudice” is any indicator, any departures that Wright makes will not be in plot detail, but in mood. Though devoted readers want a mirror image of the novel they know, that’s not always the goal of the director. Wright’s “Pride and Prejudice” was a failure for me, but for many other, more open...
Crime films abound in Hollywood because they offer rich natural resources in both characters and plots. Writer/director Guy Ritchie seemed to understand exactly how to mine those resources when he created the cult-classics “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and “Snatch.” After a disastrous straying from the crime genre with his 2002 remake of “Swept Away”—starring his wife, Madonna—Ritchie returns to his roots with “Revolver.” Unfortunately, it seems you can?...