The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Niels Arden Oplev), the extended edition
There’s enough story for three really good movies in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, maybe even four. The film opens with two of them, a good, old fashioned journalism movie, and then the very serious...
View ArticleThe Girl Who Played with Fire (2009, Daniel Alfredson), the extended edition
Calling The Girl Who Played with Fire pointless is an insult to all the other pointless sequels out there. Fire–and I’m sure it’s a faithful adaptation of the source novel, which is undoubtedly...
View ArticleThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (2009, Daniel Alfredson), the extended...
The first half of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest falls victim to the Halloween II phenomenon. The main character–in this case Noomi Rapace–is in the hospital and out of commission. Hornet’s Nest...
View ArticleEuropa Report (2013, Sebastián Cordero)
Where to start with Europa Report. There are some obvious places. First, it’s in the near future but digital video is about as advanced as it was back in 2004. On a cell phone. Or, you know, the...
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