Location, location, location: Sean Wilson takes a look at foreign films The Light Thief and In a Better World (audio)
Sean Wilson reviews In A Better World and The Light Thief – a riposte to faceless, smug Hollywood flicks
Sean Wilson reviews In A Better World and The Light Thief – a riposte to faceless, smug Hollywood flicks
Know your target audience, says Sean Wilson, as he reviews the family flicks of Mr Popper’s Penguins and Zoo Keeper
It’s a rare occasion. A new Terence Malick film has rolled around in the form of the Tree of Life. This is then 5th film by Terence Malick, whose films go back to 1973 in Badlands. Terence Malick had directed Badlands, Days of Heaven and there was a 20 gap until the Thin Red Line the war film then there was the New Road and now we arrived at the Tree of Life. Terence Malick is a very interesting and provocative director, who works entirely on his own terms it’s very philosophical and astute directing.
“It all ends,” reads the tag line for the last in the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part 2, and it’s quite an apposite tag line, not just terms of the story, but for the whole franchise, says Sean Wilson.