Film review – Dagny – 21/11/97 The basic premise of this movie, which is reflected in the stunning opening sequence, is that space is so incredibly, unbelievably vast that there must be someone else out there. “If it’s just us”, say several characters in the film, “doesn’t it seem like an awful waste of space?”…
Film review – Dagny – 12/11/97 The ubiquitous Ewan MacGregor you see him here, you see him there, this year you see him everywhere. In A Life Less Ordinary, by the film makers who brought us Shallow Grave, we see our boy Ewan playing yet another engaging loser. Alongside Ewan we have the less ubiquitous…
Film review – Dagny – 23/10/97 Even those who are staunchly opposed to brass band music can find something to appreciate in writer-director Mark Herman’s Brassed Off. Set in the fictional North-England mining town of Grimley, the film tells the story of the Grimley Colliery Brass Band and the effect that the closure of the…
Film review – Dagny – 2/10/97 One of the reasons I went to see this movie was to see how well it would live up to Peter Hoeg’s extraordinary novel, Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow. But having said that, I think it is important that the film be judged not just for how well it…
– Dagny – 18/9/97 Now that the incredible public and media outpouring that has surrounded Diana’s death has subsided a little, perhaps we can hope to examine the issue with a bit more clarity and judgement. In the days following her death and leading up to the funeral there was such a hysterical fervour to…
Film review – Dagny – 4/9/97 I have to say that I think the name of this film is somewhat misleading. I was expecting the title character to be a 4,000 year old South American mummy with a penchant for terrorising museum staff, but this was not the case. It was in fact a genetic…
Film review – Dagny – 19/6/97 Given the recent glut of Shakespearean productions on film, one could be forgiven for feeling a little jaded about going to see yet another one. “Oh no, not yet another exquisitely mannered costume drama starring Helena Bonham Carter’s hair!”, one might well think. Well, pause a moment. Al Pacino…
