Mini-Review: I thought this was a pretty amazing film. It presents a pretty scary image of insanity and medical science at times. The film is all dialogue and it’s beautifully written. It almost seems like poetry. The performances from Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn were stellar. Add a wonderfully dramatic score and some fantastic imagery and you’ve got one absolutely brilliant film.

Mini-Review: I spent most of the time making Harry Potter jokes. I still don’t think Daniel Radcliffe can show emotion on film. I like the idea of having an old-fashioned ghost story, but this was the typical modern horror movie that startles rather than scares. Plenty of things jumping out with loud music cues. I think my main problem with it was that nothing happened. The plot was almost non-existent. It was just Radcliffe’s character putting himself in scary situations over and over.

Mini-Review: I quite liked it. I was really impressed by the performances of Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou and Ben Wishaw. Even Russell Brand wasn’t bad. Visually, it was so stunning and amazing, I thought. Great cinematography and colours and visual effects. The ending of the story is a bit disappointing, but everything up until that is fantastic. If you like Shakespeare, I think it’s worth a watch. If not, you probably wouldn’t like it much.

Mini-Review: They followed the plot of the book pretty faithfully. However, as we’ve seen in many film adaptations of books, this isn’t always enough to make a successful movie. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what was missing, but I think it had something to do with both the lack of first-person perspective and that it didn’t quite capture the atmosphere. It looked pretty good and the performances from John Hurt and Richard Burton were great. It doesn’t measure up to the novel, but it’s a decent adaptation.