Sunshine appears to be an amalgam of Alien, 2001 and Event Horizon (at least, if Event Horizon’s previews adequately communicate the film’s content, not having seen it). There are Alien references abound, a handful of 2001 ones, and no Event Horizon ones I’m aware of… I imagine they’d try to hide those as well as […]
Entries Tagged as 'Cillian Murphy'
Sunshine (2007, Danny Boyle)
July 31st, 2007 No Comments
Red Eye (2005, Wes Craven)
June 21st, 2007 No Comments
The saddest thing about Red Eye is Wes Craven. The film opens with an action movie build-up montage, which he handles fine (for what it is), moves into an Airport movie, which he handles fine, turns into an actor-based thriller, which he handles fine. What doesn’t he handle fine? What does he handle so poorly […]
28 Days Later (2002, Danny Boyle)
July 20th, 2005 1 Comment
Why is Hollywood making Cillian Murphy the bad guy? He’s got to be the best everyman Hollywood’s seen since–who, Roy Scheider or something, except a better actor? No offense to Roy, I love Roy, but Roy’s a little bit of a movie star. Cillian Murphy’s not a movie star….
It’s impossible to really talk about 28 […]
Batman Begins (2005, Christopher Nolan)
June 19th, 2005 No Comments
Well, now, I’m surprised. Batman Begins is not terrible.
It’s not good either. Not good at all. It has damning faults in three areas, and since this film is the first critically praised one I’ve thrashed–at least the first critically praised one currently still in the theaters–this post is going to be a little more “formal” […]
