Change Your Image
momurr43
Reviews
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
A Daring Surprise Climax
I've just watched the film, and I felt I should do something I rarely do and write a review, because I wish to express my appreciation of Tarantino's ingenuity and originality. The film is long and moves at a leisurely but engrossing pace, and it never lost my interest. It does something unusual - it gets better and better as it goes along, and the last half-hour is sensational. It dares to rewrite history and avenges the victims of the Manson murders. And it ends with a non-PC period advert that would never make it into a cinema today on its own terms. Only a truly creative director could do such things. I do have some reservations. I thought that Bruce Lee was unfairly treated (although I'm not a fan) and I felt that most of the historical characters - with the exception of Sharon Tate - didn't look enough like the originals. However, it has too many virtues to list, and it often made me laugh out loud. I was glad to see it, and I look forward to watching it again on DVD.
Britain's Bloody Crown (2016)
The Blind Leading The Blind
I have just watched Episode 3, "The Princes Must Die", and I feel so incensed that I must write this brief review. We see the two young 'Princes in the Tower', Edward and Richard. The older boy, Edward, who was only 12, looks about 16. Dan Jones's narration tells us that rumors were circulating that, among other things, the boys may have been 'drowned in a vat of wine'. ( That was the boys' uncle George, Duke of Clarence.) And we see Richard III at his coronation with short hair and a full beard. Richard had long hair and was clean-shaven. Has nobody involved with this production ever seen any of the surviving contemporary or near-contemporary portraits of Richard III? They've been all over the world ever since his remains were discovered in a car-park here in Leicester. (That was back in 2012. This series was made in 2015.) With enormous effort I resist the temptation to cry "Off with their heads!" But I wish that while the people responsible for this travesty still do have their heads they would open their eyes and use them.