Book, Film & TV Reviews
A film guide for December 2011 including reviews for:
– The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
– Another Earth
– Hugo
– Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
This month we also have a list of our Top 10 films of 2011. Hope you had a good Christmas and Happy New Year!
In Retrospect is a monthly film publication that I make just for a bit of fun, visit the blog here.
(Published in Issue 5 of my publication In Retrospect)
Directed by Martin Scorsese, Hugo is a 3D family adventure based on Brian Selznick‘s award-winning best-seller, The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Set in 1930s Paris, a young orphan boy, Hugo (Asa Butterfield), lives a secret life in the walls of a train station where he has to reset the clocks every day. His late father (Jude Law) has left him with the mystery of an automaton, a clockwork mannequin, still in need of repair. One day, whilst running away from the station inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen) so that he won’t be sent to an orphanage, Hugo bumps into a young girl, Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz), and gets on the wrong side of her godfather Georges Méliès (Ben Kingsley). But the key around Isabelle’s neck may be what Hugo was looking for in order to reveal the automaton’s secret, which in return will open up a new world for everybody involved, and maybe even a place that Hugo will be able to call home.
(Weekly feature written for BritScene)
This week has seen the overall box office suffer its worst weekend since 2008, but one British movie has enjoyed robust numbers whilst another two are continuing their successful theatrical runs. There’s also some great new films set to be released over the next week that feature a number of Brits in their cast, including the Sherlock Holmes sequel, Roman Polanski’s Carnage, Mission Impossible 4 and David Fincher’s English adaptation of The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo.
(Written for HeyUGuys)
A new clip and over 50 images of Martin Scorsese’s first 3D film, Hugo, have been released this week.
The images consist mainly of stills from leads Chloe Grace Moretz and Hugo himself, Asa Butterfield, but also some of the characters we are yet to see from the trailers, including Sacha Baron Cohen, Richard Griffiths, and Emily Mortimer as well. There is also an image of Scorsese directing and one of him on-camera in a cameo. These pictures bring a whole new understanding of the film, highlight the magical ‘30s Paris, some wonderful costumes, and a general care to detail that Scorsese puts into his films.
(Written for Lost In The Mutiplex)
A new trailer for Martin Scorsese‘s first 3D film Hugo has been released by Paramount Pictures this week.
Based on Brian Selznick‘s award-winning best-seller, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Hugo is a young orphan boy, living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station in the 1930s. The story follows him on a magical adventure involving his late father and an automaton to unlock a secret that will transform his life and reveal a place he can call home.
Hugo stars Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, and Jude Law, and is set to be released on 2nd December.
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