Dh Preview One – More amazing video clips are a click away
As the penultimate wizardy chapter ‘ The Half Blood prince’ makes it into shops today, this seemed like an opportune time to show this lovely teaser for next years kid’s magic juggernaut: The Deathly Hallows. Looking at this, expect lots of legging it about through dry ice forests and John Hurt suffering from Strep Throat (based on the v/o anyway…).
Generally, we watch any old crap round here – in the interest of being a representative, even-handed site obviously – from Marley & Me to Apocalypse Now,it’s all fair grist to the review grinder-yep,we even sat through Troll 2 once.
But just occasionally there are some movie crimes so cynical and heinous in their deployment that we’re robbed of even the enjoyment bought by bright shapes moving around a large screen.
Twilight: New Moon is one of them…
By the beard of Zeus! Behold the new teaser for upcoming sorcery-fest Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
It may have a title more unweildy than a lightning bolt, but Fox is obviously hoping this will be filling the gap left by a certain boy wizard in years to come -even going as far as handing Chris Columbus the reigns.
The tale of a boy who discovers he’s descended from the Greek Gods certainly looks and sounds J.K.Rowlingesque, but any film with Rosario Dawson in a mini-toga and Steve Coogan as the king of Hell has to be worth a look right?
Younger readers-will this work? Or is Potter truly irreplaceable?
Bad news for the ‘already booked to do Thor’ Kenneth Branagh, but good news for red blooded, beef-eating English gentlemen everywhere, as Elizabeth writer Michael Hirst announces his latest trip into the barbarous depths of British history. The Tudors creator has signed on to adapt Bernard Cornwall’s epic tale of the Battle of Agincourt, a key moment in the hundred years war and one of the bloodiest battles in medieval history.
Even though you know what’s coming, the latest chapter in the HP saga still manages to appeal and enthrall by dint of an all pervading sense of menace throughout. It’s a huge cliché to say that each film is darker than the last, but here the villains – often played previously as pantomime moustache-twirlers – finally blossom into genuine threats, their evil casual and malicious and all the better for it. Throughout, there’s a real feeling that any of the leads could perish in an instant and despite Rowling’s occasional use of magic to neatly sidestep painting herself into a corner (Ron’s poisoning a case in point), fans hardened and casual will find some genuine, edge-of-seat moments to enjoy here.
