When Guy Ritchie signed on to direct 2009’s Sherlock Holmes, he said he sought to “make a very contemporary film as far as the tone and texture”, because it has been “a relatively long time since there’s been a film…
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second film in Peter Jackson’s prequel to The Lord of the Rings, is beginning to show the strain of the director’s determination to stretch the adventure into three books. While still enjoyable, Smaug…
First, let me get out of the way all the words that would make me worry about overuse throughout this review: Smart, excellent, first-rate, astute, intelligent, remarkable, exceptional, unusual, offbeat, unconventional, quirky, outlandish, entertaining, zany, diverting, sparkling, hilarious, uproarious, continuous…