A very short review of the movie we saw yesterday. It had potential. The locations were great. The sets were good. The actors all have the ability to make scenes work. I haven’t read the novel, but Stephen King is an incredibly gifted writer – one of the best living writers of our times, I [...]
Dreamcatcher
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2007/12/30/dreamcatcher/
The Golden Compass, or how not to adapt a good book
Just for once, I’m grateful for the fact that the morons of the Catholic League and other so-called Christians managed to keep people away from the movie. Not because it contains atheist elements – that wouldn’t be a problem – but because it sucks. Had any of their supporters gone to see it, it might [...]
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2007/12/15/the-golden-compass-or-how-not-to-adapt-a-good-book/
Making The Lord of the Thingies
A week ago was the last performance of The Lord of the Thingies, the Christmas panto that took up a significant amount of our time these last few months. There’s a lot to tell, and I’m still too tired from having a sudden and terrible toothache at 6 a.m. to be particularly coherent about it; [...]
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2007/12/15/making-the-lord-of-the-thingies-part-1/






