Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) died less than 24 hours after Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), but their press obituaries were printed a day apart, which wreaked havoc with my Observer deadline, which is about as ridiculously self-centered a statement as a harried movie reviewer can make. The point is, however, that when I wrote my time-driven comments on Read More
Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand, from a screenplay by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn, based on the Marvel Comics characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, has already suffered all the critical slings and arrows inevitably directed at the third reworking of a comic-book series that began with Bryan Singer’s X-Men in 2000, Read More
Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand, from a screenplay by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn, based on the Marvel Comics characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, has already suffered all the critical slings and arrows inevitably directed at the third reworking of a comic-book series that began with Bryan Singer’s X-Men in 2000, Read More
More auteurist than erotic, Eros consists of three short films directed by Wong Kar Wai, Steven Soderbergh and Michelangelo Antonioni. With a title like that on a marquee, the film’s target audience (read: literate letches), hardly needs any reviews to encourage them to sample the wares. As it happens, I caught Eros at one of Read More
