Thursday, March 21, 2013

Once upon a midnight dreary

Can't really put a finger on why this is so much fucking rubbish. The actors - particularly John Cusack and Luke Evans - are totally lost interpreting Edgar Allan Poe and his peers. The story seems unnecessarily busied and the stiff seriousness of everything - despite of some horrendously brutal scenes - is downright comical.

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In the harsh face of stardom

This was tamer and kinder than I remembered. The rock escapism of this fictional band called Stillwater is delightfully smoothed over what ...