The third in a triumvirate of late summer/early autumn
horror animations and the most hotly anticipated in my eyes, Frankenweenie is a feature length remake
of the short film that Director Tim Burton made while working for Disney that
got him fired twenty-eight years ago. Over a quarter of a century later and
with a back catalogue of hits under his belt, Disney invited Burton to remake his short for them. A homage
to early talkie Hollywood horror and filmed in black and white stop motion, Frankenweenie is the story of a young
boy called Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) who loses his only childhood
friend, his dog Sparky. Whilst in science class and having seen a dead frog
have his legs manipulated by electricity, Victor gets the idea to try the same
thing with his deceased dog and is successful in reanimating Sparky. Although
he tries to keep it a secret it isn’t long before other children from school
find out and blackmail Victor into helping them to do the same thing. The
results of their experiments though are much less successful and lead to a
horde of rampaging monsters that threaten the town.
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Sunday, 11 November 2012
Sunday, 2 September 2012
North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock’s tale of mistaken identity and Cold War
spying has gone down as one of the most highly regarded films in history. It
was nominated for three Academy Awards, is ranked at 55 in the AFI’s 100 Years
100 Movies ranking and holds an 8.6/10 on IMDb. Carey Grant plays Roger
Thornhill, an Ad Man who is abducted by James Mason’s ‘Townsend’ character
under the suspicion that he is the spy George Kaplan. Thornhill is chased
across America from New York to South Dakota
via Chicago by
the Police and Townsend, meeting the seductive Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint)
along the way. In this next sentence I’m going to say something that will
probably draw a lot of negative comments along the lines of “You don’t know
what you’re talking about” or “You mustn’t have been watching it right” but not
only do I not think North by Northwest is
a great film but I personally believe it is the worst Alfred Hitchcock film I’ve
seen so far. The film undoubtedly features some great stand out moments but as
far as suspense and thrills go, this one left me cold.
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