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...Quake,” for instance.More recently, Harry Gregson-Williams, Hollywood music composer, scored the 2001 game “Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty,” in the same year that he scored such big-budget films as “Shrek?? and “Spy Kids.”Given connections like this, and the frequency with which the language of the cinema is applied to games by popular critics, it should come as no surprise that there are profound parallels in the development of both media. A format initially explored...
...common, but each made an appearance in the Sunken Garden Children’s Theater’s adaptation of “A Tale of Two Cities,” which ran in Radcliffe Yard from May 5 to 7. Taking its cues more from “Shrek?? than from Dickens, the play worked as both a comedic children’s show and a delightful postmodern farce. The play, co-directed by Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 and Jess R. Burkle ’06, utilized an amusing frame narrative, beginning with...
Directed by Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards and Tony Leech The Weinstein Company 1 1/2 stars There are few better formulas for making serious bank in Hollywood than the animated family film. Thanks to “Shrek?? and “Finding Nemo,” the elements of the genre are now well-defined: endearing stories and characters, lifelike digital effects, and humor just edgy enough to please parents and teens without corrupting the kids. So with the public so hungry for wholesome digital fun, it’s no surprise that formidable Hollywood execs Harvey...
...Lord of the Rings” and the “Harry Potter” franchises, visually stunning films that did justice to the original works. But, unfortunately for fans of the books and the parents dragged with them, Andrew Adamson’s (“Shrek??) work fails on two counts: accurately presenting Lewis’ classic story and creating an entertaining fantasy epic film, especially in the wake of the “Rings” series. Adamson inflates the simple, magical allegory of “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe?...
...fine and even kind of sweet at times, but it creates pure apathy. You may not be bored, but if the movie were to suddenly stop, you probably wouldn’t notice. “Little” tries way too hard to espouse the “Shrek?? mode of contemporary ironic detachment from traditional cartoons. We begin with a riff on how to start a fairy tale, including a faux “Lion King” opening, as if Disney felt like taking self-effacing shots at the Mouse, ala the Dream Works monopoly...