Ambitious but failed
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Tamsin Egerton, Simone Kessell, Bipasha Basu, Abhay Deol
Director: Roland Joffé
Writer: Roland Joffé
Story: Ajey Jhankar
Cinematography: Ben Nott
Category Archives: 3,0-5,9
“Everything, Everything” by Stella Meghie (USA, 2017)
Weak story, images and personages that are too ‘polished’, music unconnected to the story
Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Nick Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, Ana de la Reguera
Director: Stella Meghie
Writer: J. Mills Goodloe, based on the book by Nicola Yoon
Cinematographer: Igor Jadue-Lillo
Editor: Nancy Richardson
Composer: Ludwig Göransson
“Everybody Loves Somebody” (Catalina Aguilar Mastretta, Mexico 2017)
Personages lack of depth and are artificial, lots of clichés
Actors: Karla Souza, José María Yazpik, Ben O’Toole
Director: Catalina Aguilar Mastretta
Writer: Catalina Aguilar Mastretta
Music by Victor Hernandez Stumpfhauser
Cinematography by Jon Aguirresarobe
Film Editing by Aina Calleja, Miguel Schverdfinger
Paula Van Der Oest, director (1): “Moonlight” (NL, 2002)
The beginning is full of humor, suspense and provocation, but leads nowhere. Weak scenario.
Actors: Hunter Bussemaker, Franck Sasonoff, Andrew Howard
Director: Paula van der Oest
Writer: Carel Donck
Music by Fons Merkies
Cinematography by Guido van Gennep
Film Editing by Sander Vos
“Die Hard” (John McTiernan, USA 1988)
Too many clichés!
Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald Veljohnson, Paul Gleason
Directed by John McTiernan
Screenplay by Jeb Stuart
Photographed by Jan de Bont
“Total Recall” (Paul Verhoeven, USA 1990)
A potentially good story turned into a stupid action movie with lots of shooting and meaningless violence. A positive point: one of the first movies in which women are physically involved in the action.
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon, Gary Goldman
Photographed by Jost Vacano
Edited by Frank J. Urioste
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
“American Fable” (Anne Hamilton, USA 2016)
An unrealistic and insane use of guns
Cast: Peyton Kennedy, Richard Schiff, Kip Pardue, Zuleikha Robinson, Rusty Schwimmer
Director: Anne Hamilton
Writer: Anne Hamilton
Cinematographer: Wyatt Garfield
Editor: Amanda C. Griffin
Composer: Gingger Shankar
“Brain On Fire” (Gerard Barrett, USA 2016)
Actors: Chloë Grace Moretz, Thomas Mann, Richard Armitage
Director: Gerard Barrett
Writers: Gerard Barrett (screenplay), Susannah Cahalan (memoir)
Music: John Paesano
Cinematography: Yaron Orbach
Editing: JC Bond
“The Space Between Us” (Peter Chelsom, USA 2017)
The key roles given to women do not redeem the awful script and mediocre direction / The original idea deserves a better treatment
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Carla Gugino, Gary Oldman
Director: Peter Chelsom
Writer: Allan Loeb
Writer (story): Stewart Schill, Richard Barton Lewis, Allan Loeb
Cinematographer: Barry Peterson
Editor: David Moritz
Composer: Andrew Lockington
“The Sense Of An Ending” (Ritesh Batra, UK 2017)
Weak scenario and direction, wrong music (!)
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Charlotte Rampling, Billy Howle
Director: Ritesh Batra
Writer (novel): Julian Barnes
Writer: Nick Payne
Cinematographer: Christopher Ross
Editor: John F. Lyons
Composer: Max Richter