Clip It: Each day, Jon Davis looks at the world of trailers, featurettes, and clips and puts it all in perspective. Ah, Camelot! A time for GoPro cameras and quick cut editing, when hip meta storytelling was in vogue and well timed sarcasm was the bantering style of the day. Guy Ritchie has brought his trendy brand of filmmaking to the King Arthur legend. Ugh. Sometimes you have to let a thing be a thing. Hold on. Record scratch. Let's me explain that. (I can do to this too, Guy Ritchie!) Take Captain America. Not a cool character, but so what? It was writer Mark Waid's comic book run that sold me on him. What I enjoyed was that Mark Waid didn't try to make the character something that he wasn't. He didn't make Captain America talk like a Quentin Tarantino character. He didn't shim sham us with non-linear storytelling tricks.
- 7/27/2016
- by Jon Davis
- Hitfix
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Rick goes off the fantasy deep-end in this week's left-field Aladdin-themed episode of Castle...
This review contains spoilers.
8.17 Death Wish
If last week’s episode, Heartbreaker, was an excellent example of one of my favorite types of Castle episodes, then this week’s Death Wish, is one of my least favorite. And that’s because it invalidates an important part of who Rick Castle is.
Sometimes, it’s hard to tell where Nathan Fillion ends and Rick Castle begins. And that’s been entirely intentional. The role of Castle was designed, let’s face it, to take the larger-than-geek-life charisma of Fillion and deliver it to a more mainstream audience without diminishing what we geeks love about Nathan.
Whether you’ve seen him on a stage at a panel, giving an interview, or had an autograph or photograph session with Fillion, you’re likely to report the...
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Rick goes off the fantasy deep-end in this week's left-field Aladdin-themed episode of Castle...
This review contains spoilers.
8.17 Death Wish
If last week’s episode, Heartbreaker, was an excellent example of one of my favorite types of Castle episodes, then this week’s Death Wish, is one of my least favorite. And that’s because it invalidates an important part of who Rick Castle is.
Sometimes, it’s hard to tell where Nathan Fillion ends and Rick Castle begins. And that’s been entirely intentional. The role of Castle was designed, let’s face it, to take the larger-than-geek-life charisma of Fillion and deliver it to a more mainstream audience without diminishing what we geeks love about Nathan.
Whether you’ve seen him on a stage at a panel, giving an interview, or had an autograph or photograph session with Fillion, you’re likely to report the...
- 4/18/2016
- Den of Geek
As True Detective season two reaches its finale, will everything be answered? Here's Michael's review of Omega Station...
Warning: this review contains spoilers.
2.8 Omega Station
The extended running time of this final episode of True Detective seemed, at first glance, to offer the possibility of unpicking the untidy web of conspiracies and connections that the preceding seven episodes had revealed. That is the traditional purpose of mystery finales, from Agatha Christie to Scooby Doo, with every variation of crime, noir and whodunnit in between. That it would not do so became clear very early on in Omega Station, when we spent an apparent age with two couples reflecting grouchily on where they’d come from and what their futures held for them. It signalled the problem not because such musings are inherently uninteresting but because they promised more of the same circuitous navel gazing that has plagued this season since episode one.
Warning: this review contains spoilers.
2.8 Omega Station
The extended running time of this final episode of True Detective seemed, at first glance, to offer the possibility of unpicking the untidy web of conspiracies and connections that the preceding seven episodes had revealed. That is the traditional purpose of mystery finales, from Agatha Christie to Scooby Doo, with every variation of crime, noir and whodunnit in between. That it would not do so became clear very early on in Omega Station, when we spent an apparent age with two couples reflecting grouchily on where they’d come from and what their futures held for them. It signalled the problem not because such musings are inherently uninteresting but because they promised more of the same circuitous navel gazing that has plagued this season since episode one.
- 8/10/2015
- by michaeln
- Den of Geek
Second #3713, 61:53
Jeffrey, having followed Frank to a building, sneaks inside at night to confirm that it is, indeed, where Frank lives. The shot only lasts a few seconds, and serves as a bridge between what has just come before (Jeffrey’s cloaked, nighttime pursuit of Frank) and what will come after (the scene at Arlene’s Diner with Sandy as he recalls to her witnessing the actions of the Yellow Man, the Well-Dressed Man, and Frank).
The frame is pure Expressionism as Jeffrey finds himself searching for Frank’s name on the mailboxes in a low-angle shot whose shadows and lines run in a weirdly menacing way from left to right. The black door, the oblong bank of mailboxes, the shadows on the wall, the window above Jeffrey’s head with its faintly frosted panes, the fluorescent light; all of this adds up to a moment of quiet turmoil.
Jeffrey, having followed Frank to a building, sneaks inside at night to confirm that it is, indeed, where Frank lives. The shot only lasts a few seconds, and serves as a bridge between what has just come before (Jeffrey’s cloaked, nighttime pursuit of Frank) and what will come after (the scene at Arlene’s Diner with Sandy as he recalls to her witnessing the actions of the Yellow Man, the Well-Dressed Man, and Frank).
The frame is pure Expressionism as Jeffrey finds himself searching for Frank’s name on the mailboxes in a low-angle shot whose shadows and lines run in a weirdly menacing way from left to right. The black door, the oblong bank of mailboxes, the shadows on the wall, the window above Jeffrey’s head with its faintly frosted panes, the fluorescent light; all of this adds up to a moment of quiet turmoil.
- 2/13/2012
- by Nicholas Rombes
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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