'Dirty Girls'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
James McAvoy! Usually I'm not into fey young men type, but he's lovely. I think I caught him first in the Children of Dune miniseries, but I recall being pleasantly surprised at how charismatic he was in the modernized Macbeth that aired in BBC a couple of years ago.
I've seen the trailer for Starter for 10, and it looked v. good. The brunette love interest was played by the actress who played Boden's wife from The Prestige, if I recall.
it is romantic and well-acted and smart and funny and a lovely way to while away an afternoon.
Oh! That's good to know. The trailer made it seem like a total flashback to a vintage John Hughes movie (with a British twist) which could mean loads of fun or totally skipable.
I thought McAvoy was horrible in that Dune sequel miniseries, but he rivaled Tilda Swinton for Best Thing About the Movie in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and IMHO won the title outright over Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland.
I think y'all can skip The Black Dahlia if you haven't seen it yet. Or maybe I just don't care for De Palma.
I think y'all can skip The Black Dahlia if you haven't seen it yet. Or maybe I just don't care for De Palma.
Nah, it kind of sucked and was incoherent.
Makes me appreciate LA Confidential all the more. Not easy turning Ellroy into a movie.
James McAvoy's Mr. Tumnus is tied with Gary Oldman's Jim Gordon for my personal "stepped off the page, onto the screen, and into my heart" award. Totally, eerily, perfectly the way I had visualized him, reading the Narnia books as a kid.
Not easy turning Ellroy into a movie.
That goes double when you realize all his novels are the same novel, just with search-and-replace on the names and hair-colors. Seriously, I read The Black Dahlia first, and then saw L. A. Confidential, and then tried to read the latter, and thought I had picked up the wrong book. (That definitely earned its adapted screenplay nod!)
I've read them. A handful. Ellroy. Almost like novels.
Nutty could be right. Maybe. Probably. Seemingly.
(Psst! Corwood, you forgot the irrelevant swear words and racial insensitivity!)
I read Black Dahlia recently, but it was more or less ruined by the real-life thing I saw with Ellroy talking about the murder of his mother, who he kept calling "my hated, lusted-for mother." Ew.