Category: Reviews
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Does the success of Borgen mean we are ready for a political drama set in Westminster?
As the second series of Borgen finally returned to top form (Saturday 20 January, Episodes 5 & 6), two UK political commentators have asked whether there is a gap in the market for a pro politics UK TV drama. In other words: Could a British Borgen be successful?
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3D films are missing the point. The story is what matters most.
3D films, just like all the films we see at the cinema, are fundamentally about story telling. It’s about immersing yourself for a hundred minutes (and increasingly for as much as double that) in another world, in a story that hopefully will help us to better understand the human condition.
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Why I’m not Loving Miss Hatto
Judging by the reviews, it should have been easy to love Loving Miss Hatto (BBC1 Sunday 23 December), Victoria Wood’s drama inspired by the story of classical pianist Joyce Hatto. Glance at any review (examples are The Independent, The Daily Telegraph and Huffington Post Uk) and you have to conclude that anyone who didn’t find…
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The Hobbit: An Unexpectedly Slow Journey
Deep into the first hour of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – I think it was towards the end of the dish washing scene – I began to wonder if even a hobbit might find Peter Jackson’s film a little on the slow side. At 170 minutes, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a very…
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Has the film adaptation of The Four Feathers lost the plot?
How far should a screenwriter go in changing the plot of a novel when creating a film adaptation? Michael Hauge, in Writing screenplays that sell, says that it’s a false assumption that a novel can always make a natural transition to the screen. The two forms have very different rules, he says, and the allegiance…