-
Bespoke Spies KINGSMAN:THE SECRET SERVICE
Kingsman: The Secret Service Review By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Due to my former life as an Events Director for The Racquet Club of Philadelphia, a city club with a venerable and stately environment – once only open to gentlemen of a certain birth and station, I can appreciate the sentiment behind Matthew Vaughn’s (Layer Cake, X-Men First Class) spy thriller KINGSMAN:THE SECRET SERVICE. This is a world of bespoke suits, a code of conduct, established rituals, loyalty and a sense of belonging. And then you add in kick-ass action and it becomes a movie! We all know Colin Firth is a wonderful actor, but I think it’s even more…
-
Graphic Novel to Movie Adaptation: WATCHMEN
I'm deliberately not going to write an intellectual review on The Watchmen, because personally, I'm a little sick of all the "Holy Grail" of Graphic Novels talk that preceded this movie's release. Perhaps it is the most outstanding concept and artwork the Comic Book world has ever seen, perhaps those that feel that way, have a right to feel it should not have been made into a film. I don't know...
