I thought about doing this piece as a standard review but I’m tired and I don’t particularly feel the film demands much attention for its strengths. Sure Now You See Me is a fairly entertaining film that keeps you enthralled till the end through it’s fun performances and high octane action. I gave it two and a half stars and I’ve no doubt many people will come away from the movie with higher grades than that. However, what interested me the most about the film were it’s short comings, specifically how the magic was portrayed, so I’ve decided to focus on that.
Today has been such a heavy Teen Wolf day with that trailer that was released earlier today and now we’ve got news that one of the actors might land a high profile role. In demand actor Dylan O’Brien is apparently close to landing the role in Glimmer, a scifi thriller about a group of teenagers who discover a portal to past. When one of them changes history, the effects start to snowball with tragic consequences. DreamWorks is apparently shooting for a January start date in order to allow for some scheduling flexibility.
Full disclosure before I start this review, I have never much liked The Great Gatsby in any form. The previous movie versions are dreadful and the book, while thematically fantastic never leaps off the page given the character’s unlikability and voice over type narration. However, I tried to purge my mind of these feelings when I sat down for my screening. That wouldn’t be hard as the movie’s marketing was so good and the visuals so lush, I found myself anticipating the film far more than I thought I would be. And while Baz Luhrman’s glamorous remake of The Great Gatsby manages to make love to your eyes balls with it’s period costumes and dazzling production design it is unfortunately it’s the cinematic equivalent of blue balls, leaving you disappointed and unfulfilled.
Yesterday I revealed my top 10 films of 1999 and I thought it would be nice to release my choices for my favorites in the category breakdowns. Since this year is so ripe, no one film dominated the wins although The Matrix did rack up an impressive 11 nomintations. Dig into my choices after the jump!
Today’s Top 10 finds me looking back on the film year of 1999 along with my colleagues at the Awards Circuit. (BTW have you voted in our ACCA 1999 awards? Go do it!) Being on the most formative years of my existence, I was shocked to realize that despite the broad slate of films I’ve seen almost as many films this year so far (31) than I saw in all of 1999 (36)! But 1999 was such a good year for film, incredibly diverse and the films of that year are so representative of that time period. Enough of my blathering, here are the top 10 films of 1999!
Oscar Sunday is finally upon us! It’s been a long drawn out awards season which is mercifully coming to and end. I made my final predictions over at the Awards Circuit, but I’m posting them here in case you don’t want to read through the lengthy commentary.