The Golden Compass can be seen in sneak previews this weekend. I saw it a few days ago. It’s the kind of movie that made me wish I had kids, so I can take them to see it over the weekend. They’d really dig all the action and excitement.
OK. Let’s be real. I’d sit through it again in a heartbeat because it’s a movie starring Daniel Craig. He gets a lot of wonderfully photographed close-ups in it and he’s got a beard. No, not like Katie Holmes. I mean he’s actually got facial hair. The first time I saw a bearded Craig in a movie was one he did in the UK called The Mother. Have you ever seen that? A young wife/parent has her recently widowed mother staying with her. She’s also got a hairy handyman who works shirtless the premises. Played by Daniel Craig, he’s a renovator who gets really attracted to the lady in the house and they begin having a mad affair. He starts diggin’ on the young mother’s mother and she gets a renovation that goes beyond anything Nate Berkus has done on the “Oprah” show.
In The Golden Compass, a good young female gets to ride a big white bear. How many of us have fantasized about doing that very same thing? This is a fantasy adventure starring Nicole Kidman. She’s the silky villainess with a wardrobe that made me think someone in Hollywood had resurrected Edith Head. She looks fabulous. So does Daniel Craig. Have fun at the movies.
