I really wanted to like “Belfast”. But it’s difficult to get past the numerous odd technical elements in writer/director Kenneth Branagh’s ode to his days growing-up in Northern Ireland in the late ’60s. The film opens with a contemporary shot of Belfast, in color. Then the flashback saga begins and the chroma shifts to black […]
The “Artemis Fowl” book series began in 2001. That’s the same year the “Harry Potter” film series launched. “Potter” ushered-in a whole genre of page to screen YA franchises, and “Artemis” was calculated to be the next biggie. And author Eoin Colfer complied, keeping the books coming. Movie rights were captured early (by Miramax, and […]
“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” is a 2012, Golden Globe-nominated dramedy with an all-star cast of veteran actors playing seniors looking to re-live their youth and re-charge their lives by traveling to India and staying at a newly built, but poorly constructed hotel. It was solidly entertaining, but a little overrated and rather depressing, all […]