Thursday, 4 August 2016
The Day of the Triffids (1962)
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
This isn't really a good movie - the plot itself is hilariously silly - but it has an (unintended) dreamlike, surreal quality to ist scenes and situations, so I'll have to admit it's one of my guilty pleasures since my childhood.
Halliwell*: "Rough and ready adaptation of a famous sci-fi novel, sometimes blunderingly effective and with moments of good trick work."
Maltin**1/2: "Variable special effects."
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
High-Rise (2015)
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
A J.G. Ballard adaptation that offers lots of goods: cast, visual execellence and some memorable, scenes; but it doesn't quite manage to translate the novel's stringent logic of a society drifting into chaos.
Trapped (1949)
U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.
Lively, hardboiled crime thriller with a Noir touch; the story itself, however, isn't quite original.
Maltin**1/2: "...so-so thriller, done in the semi-documentary style typical of that era."
Monday, 1 August 2016
Evariste Galois (1965)
Tribute to the precocious mathematician who discovered a theory for solving algebraic equations far in advance of his time and died at the age of 22.
A short depicting the tragic circumstances of the famous mathematician's early death in a duel; fine acting and period detail, but not much math.
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