Friday 22 May 2015

Phone Booth
Dir: Joel Schumacher
2003
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*Ring ring*

"Hello"


"Hi, it's Cinephile Crocodile here, did you know that Alfred Hitchcock developed the story of Phone Booth and wanted to film it before he died?"


"No, I didn't know that interesting fact, thanks for telling me. Is the film any good?"
"Yeah, it's no Hitchcock but it's not bad. The idea of a thriller that is filmed entirely within the confinement of a phone booth must have sounded hard to make on paper but Joel Schumacher achieves high levels of suspense and intrigue. Colin Farrell is fairly impressive but it's Kiefer Sutherland's gravely voice that brings the tension the film needs to work. It's shouldn't work but it does, clever writing means that you are never at all bored of of the phone booth as a setting for the entire 81 minutes of the film."


"Sounds good, who else is in it?"


"Katie Holmes"

*Click*


"Hello....Hello...."

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