Monthly Archives: February 2005

David S. Goyer, Blade Trinity

The final installment in the Blade-trilogy, Trinity is not the strongest of the three (I think it’s the second one), but with six years between the first and now the last, it is very interesting to see the development in style. Since these films are representative of the Hollywood action-spectacle, we get a very keen [...]

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Wayne Wang, Center of the World

Certainly not Wang’s strongest movie, but it does raise a number of interesting questions about people’s relation to each other in contemporary society, Much of the focus on pornography is probably overrated based on what is actually present, and it does serve a specfic purpose in the film. How much are we willing to do [...]

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Alfonso Cuaron, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Saw the film version again, it remains the most successful and most atmospheric of the three films so far. Alfonso Cuaron made a perfect choice in set-design and it pains me that they might be returning to the old look with the fourth installment: Order of the Phoenix. We’ll see how it turns out. What [...]

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