Shrek Forever After
Voices Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas
Director Mike Mitchel
Genre animation/adventure
Rating PG
It feels nice to be in the company of the green ogre once again, although the experience is tinged with a bit of sadness as we are told this is the last instalment in the Shrek franchise.
A flashback takes us to the time when Princess Fiona (Diaz), a beautiful girl by day and an ogre by night, was locked in a tower by her parents. Desperate to have the curse lifted, the King And Queen of Far Far Away agree to give away their kingdom to the villainous Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn). But, just in time, Shrek saves the day with his ‘true love's kiss'.
Now, years later, he has a wife who loves him, three lovely children, and friends who admire him, but Shrek yearns for the good old days when villagers feared him and "the world made sense." It's the right moment for Rumpelstiltskin to reappear and take the ogre back in time, to a world where Shrek will discover that he was never born.
- Cyril Pinto
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Cast Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist. Lena Endre
Director Niels Arden Oplev
Genre Crime/mystery
Rating 18+
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo isn't actually the title of Stieg Larsson's first novel in his Millennium series. It was really called Män Som Hatar Kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women.) The new title is interesting in its opaqueness, as it refers to the main character Lisbeth Salander, who, like the dragon itself, remains largely a mystery.
While the original title details one of the main themes of the film, violence against women, it also leaves you unprepared for an important concession that you will have to make to this film; it is part of a trilogy and while it offers a satisfying ending, it purposely leaves you wanting more.
For those short on patience, this could be trying, but with a little luck The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo appears to be the first in a very engaging series of dramatic thrillers of both modern and historic bent, and an almost Hitchcock-like sense of pace and atmosphere.
Noomi Rapace is darkly brilliant as Salander, an antisocial and possibly autistic, hacker and investigator whose tendency towards vigilante justice has put her in a compromised position with the law.
- Liam Nelson
