An fanciful and luminous film shot in the style of a ballet akin to The Nutcracker or Peter and the Wolf shouldn’t be sabotaged by unnecessary parenthetical snarkiness that riddles its dialogue – but Mirror Mirror does just that. In a way, it’s true to the original Grimm fairy tale in that it tries to distance itself […]
It’s our first week at the pair of swashbuckling Snow Whites coming this year, which will raise the obvious question: who’s the better evil Queen, Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron? It’s also our chance to see the Australian Perseus battle the titans once again, this time with more Liam Neeson and an ominously slow speaking Ralph Fiennes. […]