Film reviews: 'Ralph Breaks The Internet warms the cockles of our hearts then breaks them in tiny pieces' BelfastTelegraph.co.uk This week's film reviews: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/film-reviews-ralph-breaks-the-internet-warms-the-cockles-of-our-hearts-then-breaks-them-in-tiny-pieces-37579486.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/article37579485.ece/a8485/AUTOCROP/h342/2018-11-30_lif_46140834_I1.JPG Email This week's film reviews: Ralph Breaks The Internet (PG, 112 mins) **** When it comes to a sequel, go bigger or go home. Rich Moore and Phil Johnston's imaginative and deeply satisfying follow-up to the 2013 feel-good computer animation Wreck-It Ralph achieves the former without straying far from the latter by propelling its coin-operated arcade game characters into the mind-boggling realms of the World Wide Web. Ralph Breaks The Internet expands its bewildering array of visual targets to include social media behemoths, video sharing … [Read more...] about Film reviews: ‘Ralph Breaks The Internet warms the cockles of our hearts then breaks them in tiny pieces’
Hollywood film review
‘A Star Is Born’ film review: Starring Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga
For all the reasons that a fourth iteration of “A Star Is Born” — fifth, if you count the 1932 drama “What Price Hollywood?” whose DNA is in every “Star” — shouldn’t and wouldn’t work in 2018, it’s an extraordinary surprise that this new version packs such a wallop.This is “A Star Is Born” for people who never saw a previous version, for people who love any of the previous versions, and even for those who think the property is moth-eaten and old-fashioned. This is “A Star Is Born” that takes the characters seriously, in their passions and pathologies, their addictions and ambitions. And in an age where “Mamma Mia” and “The Greatest Showman” pass as hit musicals, it’s an exciting reminder of what the genre can be.You know this story, but you don’t this story, at least not the way that screenwriters Eric Roth, Will Fetters and Cooper are telling it: Jackson Maine … [Read more...] about ‘A Star Is Born’ film review: Starring Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga
Film Review: Complex ‘Ghost Stories’ balances horror, intrigue and humor
By Peter Hartlaub Updated 12:00 am, Friday, May 4, 2018 Photo: IFC Films, HO / TNS Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 A scene from the film “Ghost Stories.” A scene from the film “Ghost Stories.” Photo: IFC Films, HO / TNS Film Review: Complex ‘Ghost Stories’ balances horror, intrigue and humor 1 / 1 Back to Gallery “Why is it always the last key that unlocks everything?” Martin Freeman says the words, with a mysterious arrogance, in the second half of “Ghost Stories” — a thoughtful and rewarding horror film by writer-director Andy Nyman and co-director Jeremy Dyson. Patience is necessary to enjoy the paranormal mystery, which tells three eerie tales (four including the framing story), each with a slow build. The scares are sporadic, but the payoff … [Read more...] about Film Review: Complex ‘Ghost Stories’ balances horror, intrigue and humor
Film Review: A spiritual Western in Chloe Zhao’s ‘The Rider’
Lindsey Bahr, Ap Film Writer Updated 3:14 pm, Monday, April 9, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-4', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 4', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: AP Image 1of/4 CaptionClose Image 1 of 4 This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Brady Jandreau in a scene from "The Rider." (Sony Pictures Classics via AP) This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Brady Jandreau in a scene from "The Rider." (Sony Pictures Classics via AP) Photo: AP Image 2 of 4 This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Brady Jandreau in a scene from "The Rider." (Sony Pictures Classics via AP) This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Brady Jandreau in a scene … [Read more...] about Film Review: A spiritual Western in Chloe Zhao’s ‘The Rider’
Dunkirk, film review: ‘Dramatic, tense, a quintessential British war film’
PUBLISHED: 18:30 18 July 2017 Michael Joyce Dunkirk. Picture: Melinda Sue Gordon/Warner Bros © 2016 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Ratpac-Dune Entertainment LLC and Ratpac Entertainment, LLC FIVE STARS for Dunkirk, which stars Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Harry Styles, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Fionn Whitehead, Jack Lowden and Aneurin Barnard Dunkirk. Picture: Melinda Sue Gordon/Warner Bros If there’s one thing British cinema can do it is a war film. Dunkirk may be the quintessential British war film in that it is primarily concerned with overcast skies, a miserable time at the beach and endless queuing. It may also be the ultimate summer blockbuster – a relentlessly tense, dramatic situation conveyed almost entirely by sound and fury. I try to avoid trailers as much as possible – they are promises made to be broken – but I caught a brief clip for this back in January, the image of a pen filled with helmeted heads, all turning and then … [Read more...] about Dunkirk, film review: ‘Dramatic, tense, a quintessential British war film’