Archive for the ‘adapted’ Tag

• February 26, 2012 2012 Oscars posted in Criticism tagged 2012, a separation, academy, academy awards, academy awards 2012, actor, actor in a leading role, actor in a supporting role, actress, actress in a leading role, actress in a supporting role, adapted, albert nobbs, alberto iglesias, alexander payne, animated, animated feature film, anne-sophie bion, anonymous, art direction, Asghar Farhadi, ashley, award, awards, Bérénice Bejo, beginners, best, best actor, best actress, best director, best foreign feature, best original screenplay, best picture, blog, blogging, brad pitt, bridesmaids, Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, bullhead, by, chicago, chico & rita, christopher plummer, christopher tellefsen, cinematography, costume design, critic, david, Demián Bichir, directing, director, documentary, drive, extremely loud & incredibly close, fassbender, feature, film, film editing, filmmaker, films, footnote, gary oldman, george clooney, glenn close, howard shore, hugo, in darkness, j.c. chandor, jane eyre, jean dujardin, jessica chastain, joe berlinger, John Logan, John Williams, leading role, live, live action, live-blogging, liveblogging, makeup, margin call, martin scorsese, meryl streep, michael, michael fassbender, midnight in paris, moneyball, movie, movies, my week with marilyn, nick nolte, Octavia Spencer, original, original score, original song, oscar, oscars, picture, rango, real in rio, real steel, reporting, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, saving face, score, screenplay, short, short film, song, sound editing, sound mixing, Steven Zaillian, supporting, supporting actor, supporting actress, supporting role, swinton, terrence malick, the artist, the descendants, the descendents, the help, the tree of life, undefeated, w.e., woody allen, writer, writing
• January 27, 2012 Film review: Albert Nobbs posted in Film reviews tagged 1800s, 1890s, 2011, 2012, Aaron Johnson, acting, actress, actress in a leading role, adaptation, adapted, Alan Moloney, albert, albert nobbs, as, as a man, as man, ashley, award, awards, baby, based on, based on George Moore's novella, best actress, blog, Bonnie Curtis, Brendan Gleeson Maria Doyle Kennedy, Brian Byrne, butler, butlers, child, close, critic, david, david ashley, dress, dressed, dublin, dyke, faking, fooling, Gabriella Prekop, gay, gays, george moore, glenn, glenn close, hotel, ireland, irish, Istvan Szabo (story), Janet McTeer, John Banville, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Julie Lynn, leading role, lesbian, lesbians, love, lovers, lynn johnston, maid, makeup, martial corneville, matthew w. mungle, mia, Mia Wasikowska, Michael McDonough, Mockingbird Pictures, nobbs, nom, nominated, nomination, nominee, novella, oscar, oscars, Parallel Films Productions, pregnant, pretending, review, reviewed, reviewer, Roadside Attractions, rodrigo garcia, screened, screening, servant, servants, short story, Steven Weisberg, supporting, supporting actress, Trillium, valet, valets, woman dressed as man
• January 13, 2012 Film review: Carnage posted in Film reviews tagged adaptation, adapted, africa, Alexandre Desplat, argument, ashley, battle, blog, broadway, bully, carnage, child, children, Christoph Waltz, Constantin Film Produktion, couples, cowan, critic, david, david ashley, debate, disfigured, families, family, father, fight, film, france, french, gang, god of carnage, Hervé de Luze, husband, jodie foster, john c. reilly, Kate Winslet, longstreet, man, Martin Moszkowicz, massacre, mother, movie, nancy, Oliver Berben, parent, parents, Paweł Edelman, penelope, play, review, revieweds, roman polanski, rwanda, Saïd Ben Saïd, SBS Productions, school, screen, screened, screening, SPI Poland, stage, violence, violent, wife, woma, writer, written by, Yasmina Reza
• September 26, 2011 Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, adaptation, adapted, archery, artificial eye, artina films, ashley gerasimovich, atlantic swiss productions, award, best, bob salerno, book, british, cannes, cannes 2011, cannes film festival, damien, david ashley, demon seed, disturbed, disturbing, evil, ezra miller, film, hellspawn, jasper newell, jennifer fox, joe bini, john c. reilly, jonny greenwood, lionel shriver, luc roeg, lynne ramsay, massacre, mff, mff 2011, Milwaukee film festival, morvern callar, mother, motherhood, movie, murder, Oscilloscope, psychopath, review, reviewed, rocky duer, rory stewart kinnear, school, school shooting, screened, screening, seamus mcgarvey, shooting, sociopath, son, steven soderbergh, students, terror, tilda swinton, unbalanced, united kingdom, written by, year
• September 16, 2011 Film review: Straw Dogs posted in Film reviews tagged 1971, 2011, adapted, aggression, aggressive, Alexander Skarsgård, Alik Sakharov, america, american, amy sumner, battleplan productions, castle, castlekeep, cat, cheerleader, cruel, david ashley, david sumner, David Zelag Goodman, directed, Dominic Purcell, dumb, dustin hoffman, film, gordon williams, hick, home, home invasion, house, invasion, james marsden, James Woods, janice hedden, kate bosworth, keep, killer, killing, kitty, Larry Groupé, Laz Alonso, male, man, Marc Frydman, mean, men, mentally, misogynistic, misogyny, mississippi, movie, murder, passive, passive aggressive, peckinpah, peter vaughn, rage, rape, remake, revenge, review, reviewed, rod lurie, rural, sam peckinpah, Sarah Boyd, screened, south, southern, southern U.S., stone, straw dogs, sumner, The Siege of Trencher's Farm, tom hedden, U.S., vengeance, vicious, violated, violation, Willa Holland, written, young
• September 16, 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive posted in Film reviews tagged 2010, 2011, action, adam siegel, adaptation, adapted, albert brooks, alejandro jodorowsky, based on, best director, bold films, book, breaking bad, bronson, bryan cranston, bullitt, cannes, cannes 2011, cannes film festival, car, carey mulligan, cars, chicago, christina hendricks, cliff martinez, contract, crime, criminal, drive, driver, driving, eastwood, festival, film, filmdistrict, getaway, gigi pritzker, gone wrong, gosling, heist, hollywood, hossein amini, james sallis, jewish gangster, john palermo, la, leone, los angeles, mad men, marc platt, marc platt productions, matthew newman, michael litvak, mobster, movie, newton thomas sigel, nicolas winding refn, noir, novel, odd lot entertainment, oscar isaac, performer, pizza place, Prix de la mise en scène, refn, review, reviewed, ron perlman, runs, ryan, ryan gosling, screened, seed productions, speeding, stunt, stunt driver, tarantino, the stunt man, violence, wheelman, winner
• March 18, 2011 Film review: The Lincoln Lawyer posted in Film reviews tagged 2011, adaptation, adapted, ashley, based off, based on, best seller, bestseller, blog, bob gunton, book, brad furman, bryan cranston, cliff martinez, court, courtroom, critic, david, david ashley, drama, film, frances fisher, gary lucchesi, haller, harry bosch, hooker, Jeff McEvoy, john frizzell, john leguizamo, john romano, josh lucas, justice, lakeshore entertainment, law, lawyer, lincoln, lincoln lawyer, lionsgate, lukas ettlin, marisa tomei, matthew mcconaughey, michael connelly, michael haller, michael pena, mickey haller, movie, murder, murdered, murderer, mystery, novel, Peña, PRODUCED BY, prostitute, reviewed, richard wright, ryan philippe, scott steindorff, screened, sidney kimmel, ske entertainment, street, suspense, the lincoln lawyer, thriller, tom rosenberg, william h. macy
• February 20, 2011 2011 Oscars posted in Criticism tagged 127 hours, 2010, 2011, aaron sorkin, academy, achievement, action, actor, actress, adapted, Alejandro González Iñárritu, amy adams, andrew stanton, animal kingdom, animated, anne hathaway, anne rosellini, annette bening, another year, art, art direction, award, awards, ballot, biutiful, black swan, blue valentine, ceremony, chris sanders, christian bale, christopher nolan, coen bros, coen brothers, colin firth, danny boyle, danny cohen, darren aronofsky, david ashley, david fincher, david o. russell, david seidler, dean deblois, debra granik, directing, directly, editing, effects, eric johnson, ethan coen, film, films, geoffrey rush, hailee steinfeld, helena bonham carter, hollywood, how to train your dragon, inception, jacki weaver, james franco, javier bardem, jeff bridges, jeff cronenweth, jennifer lawrence, jeremy renner, jesse eisenberg, joel coen, john hawkes, john lasseter, lee unkrich, lisa cholodenko, live, mark ruffalo, matthew liatique, melissa leo, michael arndt, michelle williams, mike leigh, movie, movies, natalie portman, nicole kidman, no country for old men, nominee, original, oscar, paul tamasy, performance, rabbit hole, roger deakins, scott silver, screenplay, short, simon beaufoy, song, stuart blumberg, supporting, sylvain chomet, technical, technicians, the fighter, the illusionist, the kids are all right, the king's speech, the social network, the town, tom hooper, toy story 3, true grit, visual, wally pfister, winter's bone, writing, written
• December 15, 2010 Film review: Rabbit Hole posted in Film reviews tagged 2007, 2010, aaron eckhart, adaptation, adapted, Anton Sanko, ashley, blog, child, comic, critic, david, david ashley, david lindsay-abaire, death, dianne wiest, drama, film, frank g. demarco, get over it, giancarlo esposito, graphic novel, grief, grieving, Joe Klotz, john cameron mitchell, lionsgate, metronome, miles teller, movie, moving on, nicole kidman, odd lot entertainment, olympus pictures, parallel universes, play, pulitzer prize, rabbit hole, review, reviewed, sandra oh, screened, screening, stage, tammy blanchard, winner
• December 15, 2010 Lovecraft Films, ranked posted in Lists tagged 1963, 1965, 1970, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1994, 2005, 2007, adaptation, adapted, clive barker, cthulhu, dagon, dan gildark, dan o'bannon, daniel haller, david ashley, david keith, die, dreams in the witch house, film, from beyond, h.p. lovecraft, hellraiser, horror, hp lovecraft, hpl, in the mouth of madness, john carpenter, macabre, monster, movie, re-animator, roger corman, stuart gordon, the call of cthulhu, the case of charles dexter ward, the curse, the dunwich horror, the h.p. lovecraft historical society, the haunted palace, the resurrected, vincent price, writer