Everything tagged with “Natalie Portman”

1. Review of Kenneth Branagh’s Thor

   25 October, 2011:

   Kenneth Branagh’s Thor always seemed like it would be the hardest comic adaptation to fit convincingly into the shared universe Marvel have been piecing together for a few years now. Despite lacking the same level of public recognition as some of the other heroes, and having a magical background that could have felt out of kilter with the rest of the technology-borne ensemble, Thor has turned out to be one of the more solid and enjoyable Marvel films so far.

2. Black Swan fails to impress

   7 February, 2011:

   Black Swan, its cast and crew apparently scheduled to be showered with Academy Awards and such, is the second Aronofsky film — the first being The Wrestler — that’s left me wondering what everyone else is seeing that I’m not.

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   V for Vendetta

   18 March, 2006:

   If I told you now that towards the end of the film one of the characters, a thirty-something Londoner, says “This place gives me the collywobbles”, you’d probably be able to guess which way I’m going to go with this.

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