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This Weeks Movie Reviews: Casino
Royale
Directed by Martin Campbell. Written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade &
Paul Haggis. Based on the novel by Ian Fleming. Music by David Arnold.
Starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Giancalo Giannini,
Jeffrey Wright and Judi Dench. Columbia Pictures, 2006. PG-13. 144 minutes.
The 21st James Bond film, Casino Royale is the first film since 1987's The Living Daylights to be based on one of Ian Fleming's novels. The use of Fleming's first Bond tale as a source text appears to mean that screenwriters Robert Wade and Neal Purvis (with the help of Crash writer-director Paul Haggis) were restrained from the level of campy inanity that made a joke of 2002's Die Another Day. Gone is the bloodless cartoonishness; in its place is a gritty realism that, though it doesn't entirely dispense with the series' conventions, does give Bond an enjoyable kick in what British Treasury official Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) would call his perfectly formed arse. Read more...
For
Your Consideration
Directed by Christopher Guest. Script and original music by Christopher
Guest and Eugene Levy. Starring Ed Begley, Jr., Eugene Levy, Christopher
Guest, Michael McKean, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey and Harry Shearer.
Warner Independent Pictures, 2006. PG-13. 86 minutes. I'd like to suggest Movieness as an alternate title to For Your Consideration. The new satire of Hollywood by Christopher Guest and friends, For Your Consideration radiates movieness, meaning it's keenly aware of the film industry it so earnestly tries to lampoon. What it doesn't contain is funniness. For Your Consideration is a flimsy, filmsy mockumentary that too often misses the mark. Read more...
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