It’s a terrible thing to say, but I can’t figure out why Rose Byrne did this movie. Not to knock it with a generalization, but Just Buried’s a Canadian production. Even though Jay Baruchel’s on the rise, besides her, everyone in the principal cast is Canadian. For a while, I thought I had it figured […]
Entries Tagged as 'Rose Byrne'
Sunshine (2007, Danny Boyle)
July 31st, 2007 · No Comments
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 […]
Tagged: Alex Garland· Chris Evans· Cillian Murphy· Cliff Curtis· Danny Boyle· Fox Searchlight Pictures· Rose Byrne· ★★★★
28 Weeks Later (2007, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
July 18th, 2007 · No Comments
If 28 Weeks Later weren’t executive produced by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland and produced by Andrew Macdonald, it would not be any better (in some ways it would be worse) but it certainly would be less offensive. Before seeing the film, I remarked to friends about what made 28 Days Later, in the end, […]
Tagged: Enrique López Lavigne· Fox Atomic· Harold Perrineau· Jesús Olmo· Juan Carlos Fresnadillo· Robert Carlyle· Rose Byrne· Rowan Joffe· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Dead Girl (2006, Karen Moncrieff)
May 7th, 2007 · No Comments
I had assumed, just because of the large cast, a Nashville approach for this film. However, frighteningly, I think it might have been inspired by Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity (the film, not the short story collection). The stories are all independent, more about their central characters than about the event tying them together, in this […]
Tagged: First Look Studios· Giovanni Ribisi· Karen Moncrieff· Marcia Gay Harden· Rose Byrne· Toni Collette· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
I Capture the Castle (2003, Tim Fywell)
May 14th, 2006 · No Comments
Do the British have an unending supply of novels about wise-beyond-their-years young women (unjustly poor or ordinary, of course) who have slightly dim older sisters who can’t see love in front of their eyes while all the time these younger women suffer for their sisters’ happiness? It certainly seems so.
I Capture the Castle, the film, plays […]
Tagged: Bill Nighy· Dodie Smith· Heidi Thomas· Rose Byrne· Samuel Goldwyn Films· Tim Fywell· ★½
The Rage in Placid Lake (2003, Tony McNamara)
April 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Placid Lake is a guy, not a town. I’d never seen a trailer and I didn’t spend any time reading about it, just queueing it since Blockbuster has so very little, and I always assumed it was a town. Had I read about it, I would have watched it sooner, since Rose Byrne is in […]
Tagged: Palace Films· Rose Byrne· Tony McNamara· ★★★
