There are three obvious questions about Let The Right One In director Tomas Alfredson intending to direct a feature adaptation of John Le Carre‘s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy — why, how and who?
Why remake the perfectly satisfying 1979 BBC miniseries based on Le Carre’s 1974 novel? How could the story be satisfactorily compressed down to a typical feature length of 110 or 120 minutes, given that the original series ran 290 minutes? And who under the age of 45 would be interested in seeing it?
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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