This is the Pure Movies review of The Woman in Black, directed by James Watkins, screenplay by Jane Goldman and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer and Ciarán Hinds. Reviewed by Kyle Ross Richardson. I felt like a convert to Radcliffe fandom by the end of the Potter franchise, but what started as a seeming inability to act in the first films only really grew into a vague competence. No, to admire Daniel Radcliffe takes a deeper appreciation and one undeniably tied up with Harry Potter, the books, the films and the whole kitbag. Simply put, because it’s hard to hate Harry Potter, it’s hard to hate Radcliffe. Similarly, it’s hard not to root for him, and feel relieved when his next effort isn’t half bad. Despite the deficiencies he may have as a performer those who are already invested in him support him because he gives it his all.
- 6/4/2012
- by Kyle Richardson
- Pure Movies
This is the Pure Movies review of Rio, directed by Carlos Saldanha and starring Jessie Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, Jamie Foxx, Will i Am, Wanda Sykes and Jane Lynch. Written by Kyle Ross Richardson. There’s a lot of money to be made in animated films, if done right. One thing –chances are, the only thing - you’ll remember about the Ice Age trilogy is that funny little rodent chasing his beloved acorn. Awww, cute. What you probably don’t remember is that the final instalment Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs took nearly $900 million worldwide, putting it well within the top twenty highest-grossing films of all time. Ignoring Us revenue, it stands as the fourth highest. Suddenly that rodent looks a whole lot cuter. Or perhaps not. Either way, Twentieth Century Fox were in on the joke, and Rio is their latest foray into the...
- 3/29/2011
- by Kyle Richardson
- Pure Movies
Starring Brittany Murphy, Tammy Blanchard, Thora Birch, and Marc Blucas
Written and Directed by Sean McConnville
Review by Dan Coyle
Allow me for a bit, to indulge in a Harry Knowles digresson: on the 19th I was fighting off a terrible cold while trying to bang out a draft of this review. I went to bed, dug myself out of the snow the next day, and spent most of the 20th finishing up my Christmas purchases, and proceeded to feel myself getting pummeled senseless by the cold. As such, I missed the news until that evening, which was that Deadline star Brittany Murphy had died that morning of heart failure, at the age of thirty-two. This followed stories of erratic behavior that led to Murphy being fired from the film The Caller. The past few weeks has been filled with vultures picking at Murphy’s corpse, but what about this movie I have right here?...
Written and Directed by Sean McConnville
Review by Dan Coyle
Allow me for a bit, to indulge in a Harry Knowles digresson: on the 19th I was fighting off a terrible cold while trying to bang out a draft of this review. I went to bed, dug myself out of the snow the next day, and spent most of the 20th finishing up my Christmas purchases, and proceeded to feel myself getting pummeled senseless by the cold. As such, I missed the news until that evening, which was that Deadline star Brittany Murphy had died that morning of heart failure, at the age of thirty-two. This followed stories of erratic behavior that led to Murphy being fired from the film The Caller. The past few weeks has been filled with vultures picking at Murphy’s corpse, but what about this movie I have right here?...
- 1/3/2010
- by Dan Coyle aka Deadpool
- Planet Fury
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