Brave
I don’t know why I bother rating animated movies, except that in some ways these reviews are my own version of collecting movie stubs.
Month: June 2012
Searching for Stardom
There have been a surprising number of articles recently discussing the art of making a movie star (if you consider Feb and March recent in June). It’s an occasionally discussed topic, especially whenever you start comparing the current slate of “movie stars” against the old guard.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The End is Near
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint open up about their decade in the spotlight Of course they knew it was coming. Yet it wasn’t until the final day of filming that the three Harry Potter stars fully understood that the most significant chapter of their lives so far was ending. “Somehow, I wasn’t prepared for how emotional it was,” says Rupert Grint, who has played Ron Weasley for almost half his life. “It hit home how much it all meant to us.” After the trio finished their last scenes for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this past summer, […]
Snow White and the Huntsman
I’m predisposed not to like Kristen Stewart. But I really wanted to like Snow White and the Huntsman so I hoped, at the very least, she’d be good enough not to ruin it. I thought: Please let her be flat. Please let her be unemotional. I’m ok with either of those. (I ought to have just come out and said, let her be Jessica Biel but it only just occured to me). If I’d had any foresight