by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 26, 2002 | Opinion
Hathaway is just one member of a young but exceptional cast in this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ lengthy novel Nicholas Nickleby. Hathaway plays Madeline Bray, a destitute young woman who captures the attention of Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunnam), recently...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 26, 2002 | News
Put family under a microscope, and one finds a complex organism. Writer-director Doug McGrath’s current film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby does just that. Through McGrath’s lens, audiences see all sorts of familial building blocks:...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 18, 2002 | Opinion
“The Two Towers”—like the trilogy’s first installment, “The Fellowship of the Ring”—is a massive movie in terms of narrative, production and box office. But the adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work shines most brilliantly through...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 16, 2002 | News
Director Peter Jackson characterized Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien as “very much anti-control, anti-systems—which partly feeds into his themes about the environment.” The role of the Ents—and Treebeard, their leader—in the trilogy’s second...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 13, 2002 | News
“Tolkien knows that every few hundred years or so there comes a challenge to a generation where you can lose it all—your way of life, your civilization,” said Rhys-Davies. “And if you do not have unity, courage and a willingness to sacrifice...
