A quiet week
Tower of London
Vincent Price stars in Roger Corman’s entertaining version of Richard III. The finished film is not really the one he wanted to make (it was originally planed to be shot in colour and the final The Battle of Bosworth was cut at the last minute and replaced with footage from the 1939 Tower of London) but it’s still entertaining, with Price having a ball as Richard.
It’s a much better film than it deserves to be given the production problems though it’s not a patch on most of the Corman/Price Poe films.
After The Sunset
Brett Ratner’s affectionate tribute to classic heist movies like The Thomas Crown Affair and To Catch a Thief is a harmless, undemanding piece of fluff. He has a good cast but none of them are taxed to anywhere near the limit of their ability.
The story concerns a retired jewel thief (Brosnan) tempted into one last job by FBI man Woody Harrelson. There are the usual twists and turns you always find in this sort of thing but no real surprises. The best thing about the film is Salma Hayak but that has more to do with her wearing very little than her acting ability.
Batman Begins
A film that owes as much to the classic 70’s Denny O’Neil/Neil Adams work on the character as it does the more modern take of people like Frank Miller.
