After a six year break, GoldenEye became the rebirth of the Bond franchise, this time featuring Pierce Brosnan as 007. While License to Kill marked the end of an era with Bond’s shift from Mi6 agent to rogue vigilante, GoldenEye marks another shift in the tone of Bond films. Perhaps entry into the 1990’s predicated a change […]

 

 

An fanciful and luminous film shot in the style of a ballet akin to The Nutcracker or Peter and the Wolf shouldn’t be sabotaged by unnecessary parenthetical snarkiness that riddles its dialogue – but Mirror Mirror does just that. In a way, it’s true to the original Grimm fairy tale in that it tries to distance itself […]