Film Reviews Today’s Lesson Objectives: To know the ingredients for a successful film review. To be able to demonstrate a knowledge of appropriate “film review” vocabulary.
To Begin: • Look up the • Didactic following word and • Fable write the definition of • Eponymous it on your handout. • Wielded • Decorum • Aristocratic • Compelling • Rapacious
What features can you identify? Nanny Mc. Phee Philip French Sunday October 23, 2005 The Observer Kirk Jones’ well-meaning comedy, Nanny Mc. Phee, is a didactic fable adapted by Emma Thompson from a series of children's stories by Christianna Brand, a writer better known for her detective novels. Thompson herself stars as the eponymous governess who possesses magical powers wielded through her walking stick and arrives unheralded, but much needed, to tame the seven wild children of widowed undertaker Mr Brown (Colin Firth). She's as ugly as sin, but with every victory in the service of good manners and decorum, a wart or similar blemish disappears until at the end she's as handsome and blooming as Emma Thompson herself. The movie tends to jerk along rather than flow, and the performances are on the broad side, especially from Angela Lansbury as the rich aristocratic aunt who's compelling Brown into remarrying, and Celia Imrie as the vulgar, rapacious widow determined to become his bride. The best work comes from Derek Jacobi and Patrick Barlow who seem to be taking their cues from Sandy and Julian of Around the Horne fame as a pair of camp undertakers' assistants. I can't see kids being too enthusiastic.
Over to you…. On the reverse, you have a second review. Repeat the same process… 1. Read the review 2. Look up words that you do not know the meaning of and write them underneath the review. 3. Identify and analyse the features in your groups. 4. Summarise whether or not the reviewer likes the film.
Saw 2 Cert 18 Xan Brooks Friday October 28, 2005 The Guardian Another week, another duff horror sequel, this one about an evil genius who locks a bunch of deadbeats in a house that is slowly filling with ricin. "Oh yes, there will be blood, " promises Tobin Bell's mellifluous psycho, who explains his actions by saying that he has cancer and wants to teach others how to appreciate life. Outside, Donnie Wahlberg's cop gets purple-faced and furious as he ponders the clues that will save his child - or as a colleague puts it: "He needs to start thinking outside the box or his son is going to end up in one. " While the original Saw had a certain sadistic ingenuity, Saw 2 is merely sadistic. The film's grungey tone suggests that its makers have made a close study of David Fincher's Seven, and concluded that it would have been even better had it featured a man cooked in an oven and a girl with no bra who coughs up blood at regular intervals.
Film Reviews Today’s Lesson Objectives: To know the ingredients for a successful film review. To be able to demonstrate a knowledge of appropriate “film review” vocabulary.
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