It’s easy to get dewy-eyed over a great old novel and film like ‘Brighton Rock’ and shriek when you hear that a young pretender is remaking it and – sacre bleu! – setting it in another period. What Rowan Joffe has done with this bold and intelligent, if flawed and maybe a little doomed (like Pinkie’s poor old Rose), remake is to go back to both the 1938 book and 1947 noir and transfer many of their elements from Brighton in the 1930s to the same town in 1964. The original film starred Richard Attenborough as amoral seaside crim Pinkie Brown, and here a brooding Sam Riley (Ian Curtis in ‘Control’) takes the lead, only now mods and rockers are hassling the deckchair crowd by fighting on the seafront and the death penalty has just one year left to run it course.
Joffe’s moving of the story to 1964 is a fair enough cry for originality on his part, but it’s also a tacit admission that you can’t move Greene’s story any further forward in time without changing it radically. Pinkie is a murderer whose Catholic faith and fear of hell and damnation make him dread the death penalty. He courts and marries naive local waitress Rose (an excellent Andrea Riseborough), an accidental witness to his crime, simply so she can’t testify against him in court. All of this – the Catholic guilt, the dread of capital punishment, the innocence of Rose – wouldn’t play well on the other side of the 1960s youth revolution.
There’s a lot of smart thinking behind this film, but I’m not convinced the 1964 setting is entirely successful. At its worst, it feels like a superficial add-on – a chance for Riley to cruise along the seafront on a moped. There’s also the sense of a 1930s story playing out against a 1960s background: Pinkie’s boss, Spicer, played entertainingly by Phil Davies, and his gang of bovver boys feel very pre-war. But maybe that’s the point: the 1960s were a turning point but not everyone was swept up in the revolution immediately.
The new setting works best for Rose, and the scene when she goes out and buys a trendy dress to match her new feeling of womanhood and impress her unimpressed new husband is very effective. If anyone is left at sea, it’s Riley; his Pinkie is charismatic, but a little one note. It’s a shame, too, that we don’t hear Pinkie’s reaction to all the mods-and-rockers action around him. Surely he has an opinion on this? Watch Brighton Rock Movie Online
Joffe’s other big change is to focus more than the 1947 film on the ‘romance’ between Pinkie and new wife Rose and allow his story to amble down more by-ways, some of them involving hard-nosed Ida (Helen Mirren), recast as Rose’s boss at Snow’s cafeteria, but still Pinkie’s chief tormentor. The result of this welcome change in emphasis is that the noir momentum of the Boulting brothers’ movie is lost in favour of a more sensitive, inquiring take on real human relations. Some may find this new ‘Brighton Rock’ a slower, less energetic experience as a result, but at least there’s more room for Joffe to explore the dirty bedsits and towering cliffs of Brighton with some exquisite photography from John Mathieson and production design from James Merifield – even if, unlike the Boulting brothers, he shoots most of his film in nearby, better-preserved Eastbourne.
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A pity the central relationship didn’t catch fire. There was no sense of peril or of the one sided love. More time was spent elsewhere in the film so when you stop caring. Sam Riley was fine as Pinkie but the denouement on Beachy Head was fumbled and silly. And it shoudl’ve pushed the “eternity & hell” a bit more cheap five fingers , the Catholicism is a huge theme in the book… so the miracle at the end seemed forced and muted. John Hurt and Helen Mirren were out of place and Andy Serkis is a ham – only thing he’s been well cast in is ,
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20th Century Fox has released the second theatrical trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes. In it, the foundation of Caesar, the leader of the ape rebellion is laid out. A highlight of this trailer, as in the first, is the lifelike modeling of the primates by Weta Digital, which could be argued is the best the industry has seen to date. Also added is the new tagline: Evolution Becomes Revolution.
An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man’s own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.
Although the planet appears desolate at first, the surviving crew members stumble upon a society in which apes have evolved into creatures with human-like intelligence and speech. The apes have assumed the role of the dominant species and humans are mute animals wearing animal skins.
The script was originally written by Rod Serling but had many rewrites before eventually being made. Directors J. Lee Thompson and Blake Edwards were approached, but the film’s producer Arthur P. Jacobs, upon the advice of Charlton Heston, chose Franklin J. Schaffner to direct the film. Schaffner’s changes included creating a more primitive ape society, instead of the more expensive idea of having futuristic buildings and advanced technology. Filming took place between May-August 1967, mostly in California and Arizona, with the opening scene shot at Lake Powell, Utah. The film’s budget was around $5,800,000. Watch Rise of the Planet of the Apes Movie Online
Planet of the Apes was released on February 8, 1968 in the United States and was a commercial success, gaining $32,589,624 at the international box office. The film was groundbreaking for its prosthetic makeup techniques by artist John Chambers, and was well received by critics and audiences, launching a film franchise including four sequels, as well as a short-lived television show, animated series, comic books, various merchandising, and eventually a remake in 2001 and a new film to be released in 2011. In particular, Roddy McDowall had a long-running relationship with the Apes series, appearing in four of the original five films (absent, apart from a brief voiceover, from the second film of the series Beneath the Planet of the Apes in which he was replaced by David Watson in the role of Cornelius), and also in the television series.
Astronauts Taylor (Charlton Heston), Landon (Robert Gunner), Dodge (Jeff Burton) and Stewart (an uncredited Dianne Stanley) are in deep hibernation when their spaceship crash-lands in a lake on an unknown planet in the year 3978 A.D.,
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after a 2006-year voyage at near-light speed (during which the crew ages only 18 months due to time dilation). However, due to an air leak, Stewart’s suspended animation equipment fails. The astronauts awaken to find Stewart’s body desiccated and their ship sinking. They use an inflatable raft to reach shore. Before departing the ship, Taylor sees the time is 3978 A.D. Once ashore, Dodge performs a soil test and pronounces the soil incapable of sustaining life.
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Tintin Is Up For Another Adventure
The Adventures of Tintin movie is celebrating the splendid character that is immortalized in our hearts. There are plenty of forums online where discussions on Tintin happen all the time. Steven Spielberg has crafted a film that brings back childhood memories of Tintin that we are associated with.
The film is based on the popular comic series of the same name by Hergé. The plot of the film is taken from three of the comics namely, The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn, and Red Rackham’s Treasure.
The young journalist, Tintin, and his lovely little dog, Snowy, are seen hanging out in a market in a town in Europe. Tintin is in a mood to buy something as a memorabilia, and he buys a three-masted sailing ship (the model!). The ship is called Unicorn.
Jamie Bill is seen as Tintin in the movie. An evil man in the form of Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine and Barnaby, a mysterious figure, try to buy the model of the ship from Tintin. Watch The Adventures of Tintin online to see Tintin adamant on his decision not to sell the ship to them.
Tintin comes back home with Snowy and the Unicorn. Snowy gets into a fight with a cat, and it results in breaking of the ship. A scroll comes rolling out of the broken pieces of the ship. But unfortunately, Snowy cannot inform Tintin about it.
Download The Adventures of Tintin full movie, as it also features our favorite clumsy detective Thomson and Thompson. They are looking for Aristides Silk, a pickpocket. Meanwhile, Sakharine is visited by Tintin in a place called Marlinspike Hall. There, he comes to know that there can be more ships.
Someone shoots and abducts Tintin. His abductors turn out to be Sakharine’s sidekicks, who confine him inside SS Karaboudjan, a ship. He soon escapes, only to bump into Haddock, captain of the ship.
Haddock is drunk all the time, thanks to a bottle of whiskey by Allan. Watch The Adventures of Tintin, as the plot seems quite intriguing, making it one of the most sought after films online.
Tintin, Snowy and Captain Haddock escape from the ship with the help of a life boat. Sakharine wants them back, and sends a seaplane to locate and get them back. The Adventures of Tintin movie online showcases the trio heading to a fictitious port in Morocco, called Bagghar. But while landing, they crash the seaplane that they had successfully captured in the desert.
Haddock starts hallucinating and remembering his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock, who was supposedly, the captain of Unicorn. Unicorn was filled with treasure, when Red Rackham, a red pirate ship attacks it, submerging it in the ocean.
Will Tintin be able to solve the mystery of the Unicorn?
Reported that talks have fallen through
We (me) were very excited at the news that Alice Eve was in talks to play the precariously-clothed Emma Frost in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class. You were all instructed to get down to your local wishing wells with an sh*t ton of pennies, and wish this thing into reality. So, what the hell? Today it’s reported that talks have fallen through, and “Mad Men” actress January Jones will be filling the role.
Nothing against Jones, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! We were so close to combining this:
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Now we’ll never know what that looks like because you guys didn’t wish hard enough. Somebody owes me pennies. (Deadline)