Fairy Tale: A True Story
is the story of two British girls who claim to see fairies in the woods at the
back of their home. In itself, that’s easy enough for the adults to dismiss as
childish fancy, but when the girls produce actual photographs of these fairies,
a storm of attention brews up, drawing in such famous men as Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle and Harry Houdini, both profoundly interested in the supernatural and the
paranormal. Fairy Tale is a cute movie, a reasonably entertaining piece
that fits squarely into the “family entertainment” box. It’s also a
movie that feels like it wanted to be something more substantial.

When a modern eye looks at the
“fairy photographs,” they’re so obviously faked that it’s amazing
that anyone believed in them for a moment. But they did: not just uneducated
people, either, but educated and presumably intelligent people as well. Some of
the answer lies in the novelty of the photographic process (we’re much more
familiar with it and aware of how photographs can be faked), but that’s not the
whole story. What made these photographs so compelling?

The film shows us part of the
answer in the social context of the story: in the midst of World War I, popular
culture in England and the United States became fascinated with “spiritualism”
and “theosophy”: various names for ideas about how people could
communicate with the dead, or see angels and guardian spirits, and so on. It’s
no surprise, then, that the claim of actual photographic proof of fairies (and
thus some sort of spiritual life beyond ordinary human experience) was taken up
with such enthusiasm by devotees of spiritualism.

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Another key part of the story
is in the personalities of the key people involved, particularly Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle (Peter O’Toole), who is the prime mover in bringing the fairy
photographs to the public eye. Conan Doyle is quite accurately portrayed in the
film, as a kindly but gullible man, and one who was stuck in antiquated ideas
about class; one telling line of dialogue has him comment that there was no way
that two young and “working-class” girls could have faked the photos.

Again as in real life, Houdini
(Harvey Keitel) is portrayed as the skeptic: as a master of illusion himself,
Houdini was well aware of how seemingly “magic” occurrences could be
faked, and devoted endless energy to exposing false mediums. However, the
historical Houdini’s exposés were motivated by his longing to communicate with
his dead mother: he wanted to discover a medium who was not a fake, one who
would truly let him speak with the dead and not just fool him into believing
that he had. This aspect of Houdini’s motivation is left unexplored in the
film, although it would have formed a nice counterpart to Conan Doyle’s
willingness to rationalize just about anything if it bolstered his faith.

In a nice touch, the
photographs that we see in the film are, in fact, the “real”
photographs taken by the original two girls, including this most famous one:

In a sense, though, Fairy
Tale chooses not to have the power that it could have, if it had really
explored the ideas of the power of belief and how the desire to believe in
something can blind people to the truth. It’s the tension between truth and
lies, the desire to believe and the desire to know the truth, that makes Fairy
Tale an fascinating story. Unfortunately, as the film moves on into its
last third, it moves away from exploring those interesting areas of the human
heart, and sticks to a more conventional wish-fulfillment fantasy. The
motivations and reactions of the girls aren’t really developed, which isn’t
such a surprise considering that the film, at this point, is moving away from
its basis in established fact and character, and toward a fantasy ending (in
real life, the girls eventually admitted that they’d faked the images and
explained how they’d done it). The plot thread of the investigative reporter is
turned into a comic piece, which doesn’t fit the tone of the film as a whole,
and any potential loose ends are tied up neatly, leaving viewers nothing to
wonder about. It’s a light-weight and reasonably entertaining film, but I can’t
help wishing that the story of the “Cottingly Fairies” had been given
a bit more depth.

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The French have always had a thing for the crime thriller in whatever
form, from the days of Feuillade through Clouzot to Chabrol to the
likes of L'Appartement,

Harry, He's Here To Help

and

Roberto Succo

in more recent years. Succo's director Cedric Kahn moves his attention from the more Americain subject of the true-life serial killer to that most French
of genre authors Georges Simenon.

The results are satisfactory.

Helene (Carole Bouquet) and Antoine (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) seem mismatched. She is a beautiful, high-flying corporate lawyer. He, balding and nondescript, works in insurance and is, by now, used to being taken for granted. His coping
mechanism is drink. First a few beers, as he waits for Helene, late as always, to arrive and then a whisky or two, as he takes the car out for petrol.

And so it goes as they start the long drive, Antoine stopping to refuel
in more ways than one. Caught up in their own domestic disputes,
neither pays much attention to the news of an escaped fugitive, with
Helene soon noticing Antoine's less than sober state.

They stop once more. Antoine gets delayed by a friendly drunk and
returns to find Helene has left. Frantic, he determines
that she's caught the train to the next town and races after it, but
arrives 20 minutes too late.

Another bar beckons. This time, it's Antoine's turn to play the friendly
drunk, as he buys a drink for the taciturn mec next to him and tries to
strike up a conversation. The man leaves, then approaches Antoine in
the parking lot, looking for a lift.

Needless to say, Antoine agrees.

Needless to say, his passenger is the wanted man…

Though it's Bouquet's name that will do more to boost the
box office, this is really Darroussin's film. Always a
reliable performer within an ensemble -

Robert Guegedian

's

La Ville Est Tranquille

and

Cedric Klapisch

's

Un Air De Famille

spring to mind - here he is given the opportunity/challenge of carrying a film on his own. It's an admirable success, as if channelling the character actor's frustrations into this downtrodden, worm-about-to-turn, Everyman role.

Kahn treats his actors generously, avoiding obvious shocks and
unnecessary stylistic flourishes in favour of a slow-burn menace,
whether mixing the sound in the bar to emphasise the constant drone
of traffic outside, progressively isolating the couple from one another
and the space through which they are travelling, or applying a few more
expressionistic and surreastic touches, like the upsidedown cow,
as Antoine drowns his sorrows once more in a small town nightclub
complete with siren-like signage.

The only questionable aspect is the too-neat resolution. Though a case
could be made that it's in accord with a narrative, where all else is
signposted well in advance and logic goes out the window in the case of the futigive not exactly keeping his head down, it lets both character and audience
off the hook that bit too much. Still, not enough to completely ruin an
otherwise solid tale of ordinary madness.

A ill-matched married connect befit entangled with a fugitive of the run.

Head:

Cedric Kahn

Writer:
Cedric Kahn, Laurience Ferreira Barbosa, Gilles Marchand, based on the romance by Georges Simenon

Betrayed by a MI6 renegade, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) is imprisoned in a Korean jail, but is released in exchange through despite a Korean descry when the operation suppose he is about to slit. As Restraints circles the globe to expose the turncoat and put a stop to a fight of catastrophic proportions, he meets Curse (Halle Berry) in Havana, and Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike) in London, the protégé of heinous megalomaniac Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens) and his front-worker restrain Zao (Rick Yune). Handcuffs travels to Iceland where he infiltrates the villain’s lair, a fabulous palace built entirely of ice, where he experiences firsthand the power of a new hi-tech weapon.

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“All About the Benjamins” is just another familiar wisecracking buddy
action flick played by the genre’s well-defined formulaic rules, whose
chief asset is how easy the mismatched action/comedy duo act together.
Otherwise, this one is a waste of your Washingtons.

The Benjamins in the title, I gather is slang for $100 bills in the
hip-hop world. The film is targeted for a teen audience, and all others
might find themselves underwhelmed by its slight plot line and/or disturbed
by its needless vulgarities. The likable Ice Cube stars as Bucum Jackson,
and he also was co-screenwriter with Ronald Lang.  He plays a self-righteous
maverick, who is a money-strapped Miami bounty hunter with a reputation
of getting his man but doing it in an unorthodox way with lots of gunplay.
His role calls for him to be the straight man. While Mike Epps plays the
comical role of Reggie Wright, the one with the endless big lip who is
a longtime petty con man with a history of lying and being in the wrong
place.

The movie opens with a scene that has nothing to do with the remainder
of the story, but at least hints at some kind of sly humor pointed between
the races that unfortunately never materializes in the rest of the film.
This scene offers an adrenaline rush of gratuitous violent action, as Bucum
has the drop on a redneck fugitive (Michael Hall) living in a trailer park
in the Florida Everglades. Whitey is watching Bugs Bunny cartoons on the
TV and his wall is draped with a huge Confederate flag. When Bucum tries
to bring him in there’s some gunplay and resistance from his other white
trash family members, but finally the fugitive is controlled by a stun
gun to his crotch–one knows from watching so many films of this routine
nature that this will be repeated later on in the story. You can put a
lot of Benjamins down on that.

On Bucum’s next bounty hunter assignment he’s to bring in Reggie
Wright, whom Ice Cube tells us has been to jail more times than Robert
Downey Jr. (In this witless comedy, that just might be the film’s funniest
line). While chasing him down through the streets of Miami, the hustler
runs into a commercial photo shoot and witnesses a diamond heist and a
gangland-style execution. The photographer Julian (Smith) and his sister
Ursula (Chaplin-granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin), who is the model, turn
out to be robbers who execute everyone on the set including the insider,
Mr. Barkley, who set the heist up. The unholy duo is working for a ruthless
gangster with a vicious Scottish accent named Williamson (Tommy Flanagan),
who when not fencing diamonds owns a place that sells luxury boats. Reggie
hides in the van of the fleeing killers and overhears them say they were
duped, that the uncut diamonds worth $20 million that they took are fake.
When Reggie is spotted by them, he flees but loses his wallet. Inside his
wallet he has the $60 million winning ticket in the Florida lotto, which
he shares with his girlfriend Gina (Eva Mendes).

Bucum shakes off some of his bad attitude and reluctantly becomes
partners with Reggie, as he wants to get the gang because they shot at
him and because he can show up the Miami police and gain free publicity
by his heroics. He therefore can follow his dream and open his own private
investigation firm. There’s also all those loose Benjamins lying around
that a street-smart guy like Bucum might profit from in a handsome way.While
Reggie just wants the lotto ticket. Pam (Rae Miller) is the receptionist
in the bail-bond office where Bucum works and is attracted to him because
his job is exciting. She’s around to make it a foursome in search of the
thugs and diamonds and lotto ticket.

The real point is that not only whites can win the lottery and make
bad films, but blacks when given the chance can follow suit.

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The story remains uninteresting throughout, and the film’s pacing
is lazily managed. The attempt to spice it up with the odd touch of exotic
fish as Bucum’s hobby, simply fails because it is unable to provide any
funny jokes about the expensive fish.

Hey, word up, you’re better off chilling and drinking some malt liquor
than catching this flick. The inexperience of commercial and music video
director Kevin Bray shows, who in his debut feature film is not able to
have a grip on putting this story right. As a result everything attempted
seems sloppy. The two male leads spend the entire film mugging for the
camera, all the action seems terribly awkward, and the film seems more
like a plug for Coca-Cola or a poor imitation of “Miami Vice.”

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Oh, Woody. Oh Woody, Woody, Woody. What were you thinking? Or, being brutal, were you thinking at all? It's the first week of the new year and already we have what could be the biggest stinker of 2006.

Taking Woody Allen's usual themes of infidelity, crime and punishment, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers stars as Chris, a retired tennis player who lands a job at a posh London club where he meets Tom, a toffish young man who shares his passion for opera.

After the pair hit it off, Chris is introduced to Tom's immensely wealthy family, including his sister Chloe (Emily Mortimer), his unstable fiancée Nola (Scarlett Johansson) and parents Alec and Eleanor (Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton).

Chris eventually ends up marrying Chloe and, thanks to her dad's business connections, swaps his bedsit for a luxury flat and a high-flying job in the City. But his secret infatuation with Nola threatens to collapse the whole nepotistic deck of cards.

The plot rumbles along reasonably enough (although we've been here before with Allen's Crimes And Misdemeanours), but it's the terrible performances and horrible dialogue that make this such a turkey. The wooden spoon goes to Rhys-Meyers. He's meant to be a poor-lad-made-good from Ireland, but has the most clipped English accent you've ever heard and delivers all his lines in this godawful, "Hellar, hi does one do?" manner that makes you want to give him a good slap. It's the worst kind of acting because you can tell he's acting.

Johansson's not much better but, to be fair to her and Rhys-Meyers, they're working with a script that feels much, much too theatrical, except that if this lot trod the boards with such tosh, they'd spend the entire show dodging rotten fruit.

Then there's that dialogue. Jeez, even my cat could do better. After a particularly grisly murder near the end, a copper muses profoundly, "Some people just don't have any luck." What the…?

And a dishonourable mention must go to the film's portrayal of London.

American directors always do this - paint our filthy capital as a fairytale land where everyone lives in massive flats overlooking the Thames, goes shopping for cashmere sweaters in boutiques and roars around in flash cars.

I even spotted a Mini with a Union flag painted on the roof, for God's sake.

Where's the graffiti, street crime and traffic wardens?

Incredibly, this rubbish has received four Golden Globe nominations - but remember that the people who made that decision were middle-aged Americans who, I wager, have never even been to the UK.

If you make the mistake of going to see this disaster, take my advice and bring a sack of out-of-date turnips. Game, set and match to mediocrity.

BEST QUOTE: "You can learn to push the guilt under the rug and go on." See what I mean about the dialogue?

BEST BIT: The bit when the end credits role.

WORST BIT: Where do I begin? The acting, the dialogue, the chocolate box portrayal of London.

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On a planet of men, where cloning has made only men possible, the only women are androids, or marionettes. The Saber Marionettes are a group of girl androids equipped with a special circut in their hearts making them capable of emotional growth, able to love unlike other androids. The androids are Lime (the bubble-headed ditz), Cherry (the compassionate, motherly one), and Bloodberry (the aggressive one). Their guardian is Otaru Mayima, a young martial arts student, who each of the girls is enamored with. Together they have already saved the planet from destruction once.

PHASE SIX: Two Otaru’s? The Tightrope of Love- Bloodberry gets extremely upset when she plans a date with Otaru and he, not realizing the seriousness of Bloodberry’s newly emerging feelings, brings Lime along. She storms off and goes to the circus alone where she meets a tightrope walker named Akashi, who coincidentally looks just like Otaru. Aakshi is kind and compassionate, attentive to her emotions. She begins to develop feelings for him and he offers to take her away, but she must solve the dilemma of which boy is the one she really loves, Akashi or Otaru?

PHASE SEVEN: The Lonely Fairy- While playing in the forest, Lime discovers what she believes is a fairy, named Lido, but only Lime can see and hear this girl. Lorelei, the scientist who is the girls technician, believes that because they are pure of heart, the girls may be open to seeing things normal people cannot. But, just what is the mystery of Lido?

PHASE EIGHT: Cherry’s Babysitting Diary- Cherry discovers a baby clone which floats down river like a little baby Noah. The missing baby is reported on the news, offering a reward that profit seeking rough bounty hunters are quick to want to cash in on. But, Cherry’s motherly instincts take over and she doesn’t feel anyone else is fit to protect the child, so she begins to defend it against anyone who disagrees. [Subtitles translate the episode title as “Cherry’s Temporary Motherhood”, which makes more sense.]

PHASE NINE: The Forest, Iron Bell, and Everybody- When the city decides to build a park in the forest and it involves cutting down Limes favorite tree that she has named Mr. Echo, Lime decides to take a stand and stop the construction. Along with her fellow Marionettes and inventor Grandpa Gennai, they fight off the logging crew, bulldozers, and wrecking balls until the city can come to a decision that will make everyone happy.

PHASE TEN: Onogiri Tastes Like Peace?- Otaru and the Marionettes hatch a scheme to take the overworked Lorelei out for the day and have a picnic in the mountains. After they sneak her out, trouble erupts in the form of a new enemy who calls himself Gettel. Dispatching an army of robot dogs, the evil Gettel abducts Lorelei, and the crew is left wondering what will happen next and how will they get Lorelei back from this new threat.

Pretty teen/girl oriented anime fantasy comedy. Having never seen the show before, I say it has a very feminine slant because it prefers the emotional drama and cutesy stuff instead of action. It has your usual anime robo plotline, the old superior robots with their purer than human hearts business. And of course, its the usual cliched personalities of each girl fitting some niche, all revolving around and having a crush on the teen dream guy, much like Tenchi Muyo and many other series. Mostly it seems to be a pretty good show for preteenage kids/girls. Episodes 6 and 7 were pretty puerile and sappy, but episode 8 (for lighthearted anmie) was a pretty touching look at the instinct of nurturing. There were a few things that may be questionable, culture gaps in humor we may find taboo like one character getting a flower put in his butt, and the fact that the initial reward offered for the missing clone baby was for it “Alive or Dead”… I’m a guy, so it really wasn’t my my cup of tea, but I can see why it would be a popular series.