Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Posted by: Dean Kish • July 15, 2005 @ 11:59am
Director Tim Burton is at it again.
Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Posted by: Tom Milroy • July 15, 2005 @ 11:59am
This is not the first time Johnny Depp has been directed by Tim Burton. I hope it's not the last. The two work rather well together: Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and Sleepy Hollow, and now there's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The Roald Dahl novel has been done before on the big screen.
Rivalries can be found in just about every sport. From baseball to basketball to hockey, and everything in between, a rivalry between two teams is often a driving component in the world of sports. Hell, there was even a nasty rivalry between two local high school teams here in Vancouver. In the world of wheelchair rugby the most heated rivalry is composed of the Americans and Canadians.
Marvel Comics' cosmic family blasts onto the big screen.
I admit it: I love Tom Cruise. In the purest sense, he is a movie star. He has the look, the style, and the charisma of one. I can even forgive his giddy appearance on Oprah as he raved about Miss Holmes.
So it's the end of the world, again. A concept we have been seeing in movies throughout history. But this time, legendary director Steven Spielberg examines one of the most classic of sci-fi stories that comes from the heart of science fiction itself.
Back in 1898, master sci-fi storyteller H.G. Wells created a story that shocked Victorian civilization.
Okay, I admit it.
I do remember a time when I used to love watching reruns of the goofy 60s sitcom, Bewitched. And for all you fans of the show out there, I am an original Darrin kind of guy. Dick York was Darrin, hands down.
It has been twelve long years since George A. Romero has directed a high-profile Hollywood feature and twenty years since he has touched the "zombie" horror sub-genre.
The last high-profile film Romero touched was the Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half in 1993.
Romero's return to the sub-genre he is credited for creating has made "zombie" fans foam at their mouths.
The tagline for the movie Bewitched goes like this: "Be Warned. Be Ready". Here's how it should read: "Be Not Funny. Be Waste of My Time". Whoever green-lighted this movie for Sony needs his or head examined. This movie is so bad it should star Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
All right, let's dissect Bewitched and find out where it went wrong.
Canadian films often have a hard time finding an audience theatrically. There are many reasons why, none the least of which is the fact that they are often given less-to-no promotion and released in only a handful of theaters for what is usually only one or two weeks before disappearing to the shelves of your local video store.
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