Posts tagged Richard Roxburgh
How Sean Connery Made The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) a Boys’ Own Blockbuster
How Sean Connery Made The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) a Boys’ Own Blockbuster

The casting of the man who was James Bond transformed The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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Essays, Yesterday's CinemaAnton BergstromStephen Norrington, James Robinson, Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Jason Flemyng, Naseeruddin Shah, Tony Curran, Shane West, Richard Roxburgh, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, LXG, comic book movie, adventure, action adventure, adaptation, comic book adaptation, Victorian EnglandComment
Zack Snyder: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
Zack Snyder: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

For all its fantasy adventure tropes and CGI animation conventions, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole has all the formal tics and thematic obsessions of a Snyder film.

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Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Reviews, Zack Snyder, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromZack Snyder, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Guardians of Ga'Hoole, John Orloff, Emil Stern, Kathryn Lasky, Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Ryan Kwanten, Anthony LaPaglia, Miriam Margolyes, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh, David WenhamComment
A Few Thoughts on Defamiliarization in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge
A Few Thoughts on Defamiliarization in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge

Featuring various techniques of defamiliarization, Hacksaw Ridge is war film that is both conventional and original, and, ultimately, deeply affecting.

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Essays, Movies TodayAnton BergstromMel Gibson, war movie, World War II, pacifism, defamiliarization, Andrew Garfield, Robert Schenkkan, Andrew Knight, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, Braveheart, Apocalypto, The Passion of the Christ, Richard RoxburghComment