Well, it looks like I found time to write about Joe Dante's entertaining 3D horror adventure The Hole after all! It ain't a great film, and the 3D doesn't exactly add anything in particular to the experience. Nevertheless, it's good, clean fun—and, at times, it's genuinely menacing. Read my fuller thoughts here...if you dare!
Showing posts with label Joe Dante. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Dante. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
New York Film Festival 2010: The Hole (2009)
BROOKLYN, N.Y.—
Well, it looks like I found time to write about Joe Dante's entertaining 3D horror adventure The Hole after all! It ain't a great film, and the 3D doesn't exactly add anything in particular to the experience. Nevertheless, it's good, clean fun—and, at times, it's genuinely menacing. Read my fuller thoughts here...if you dare!
Well, it looks like I found time to write about Joe Dante's entertaining 3D horror adventure The Hole after all! It ain't a great film, and the 3D doesn't exactly add anything in particular to the experience. Nevertheless, it's good, clean fun—and, at times, it's genuinely menacing. Read my fuller thoughts here...if you dare!
Sunday, October 10, 2010
New York Film Festival 2010: Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
BROOKLYN, N.Y.—
Unless I miraculously find enough time tomorrow to bang out a full-length review of the feature I saw last night, Joe Dante's new 3D film The Hole (2009), my review of Chilean-born filmmaker Raúl Ruiz's latest film, Mysteries of Lisbon (2010), will most likely be my final New York Film Festival review for The House Next Door (with closing remarks still to come). It's a beauty—the film, of course, not my review. (Although, if you think my review is beautifully written, then, you know, I won't complain...)
The Hole, by the way, is reasonably enjoyable in a refreshing old-school suspense-horror way, and it makes decent use of the now ubiquitous 3D technology—not surprising, given that Dante made the film expressly for 3D in the first place. Plus, as has been evident in previous films like, say, his "It's a Good Life" segment from Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), he does seem to have a knack for accurately depicting how kids and young adults interact with each other.
Overall, it's a fun little flick. Whether I'll offer up any more words on it, we shall see...
Unless I miraculously find enough time tomorrow to bang out a full-length review of the feature I saw last night, Joe Dante's new 3D film The Hole (2009), my review of Chilean-born filmmaker Raúl Ruiz's latest film, Mysteries of Lisbon (2010), will most likely be my final New York Film Festival review for The House Next Door (with closing remarks still to come). It's a beauty—the film, of course, not my review. (Although, if you think my review is beautifully written, then, you know, I won't complain...)
The Hole, by the way, is reasonably enjoyable in a refreshing old-school suspense-horror way, and it makes decent use of the now ubiquitous 3D technology—not surprising, given that Dante made the film expressly for 3D in the first place. Plus, as has been evident in previous films like, say, his "It's a Good Life" segment from Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), he does seem to have a knack for accurately depicting how kids and young adults interact with each other.
Overall, it's a fun little flick. Whether I'll offer up any more words on it, we shall see...
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