Posts Tagged ‘Asa Butterfield’
Film Review – Choose or Die
Choose or Die (2022) wears its influences so blatantly on its sleeve that it basically does the cinematic version of a cover song. It’s so invested in the horror films of the 1980s and ‘90s that it suffers from an identity crisis. We see this early…
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Film Review – The Space Between Us
“What’s your favorite thing about Earth?” As a traveler, I am always mesmerized by the new things I see, the different people I meet and the amazing tastes of food I eat in any given county I visit. Every visit to a new place is…
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Film Review – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a young adult novel by Ransom Riggs. Given that the novel’s subjects are moody, weird, “peculiar,” this seemed to be story made for director Tim Burton to adapt into a film worthy of his catalog.
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Film Review – A Brilliant Young Mind
A Brilliant Young Mind is an overly sentimental film that wants us to feel for its characters but uses shortcuts and time jumps instead of interactions to give them any kind of connection. To begin with we have a pretty traditional narrative starting point with Nathan (Asa Butterfield), a kid genius…
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Film Review – Divergent
The trend of adapting Young Adult novels unto the big screen continues with Divergent (2014). Directed by Neil Burger, with a screenplay by Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor (from Veronica Roth’s book), the film is a mixed bag. There are some interesting ideas, although they…
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SDCC Interview – Ender’s Game Press Conference
While at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2013, I was able to attend the press conference for Ender’s Game that occurred prior to the panel in Hall H. Harrison Ford (at his first SDCC appearance), Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, director/screenwriter Gavin Hood, and producer Roberto…
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Film Review – Ender’s Game
I’ve never read Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game, and after watching writer/director Gavin Hood’s film adaptation, I’m not that much more interested in it. This is a dreary, sluggishly paced story that takes itself way too seriously. There are interesting ideas afloat, which I’m…
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CinemaCon Days 3&4 Recap
If screenings of clips from Star Trek Into Darkness and Fast & Furious 6 weren’t cool enough, we still had two days worth of studio presentations (Disney, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate) at CinemaCon 2013. Generally the presentations went two ways: either the presenters would briefly mention a…
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