I’ve always thought Gemma Arterton was completely over-rated. I figured that somewhere in her recent past there was a casting couch with her name on it. Because mostly, she always struck me as some middling East Enders actress who’d inexplicably hit the big time but was in fact more likely an Aladdin-in-panto-in-Croydon than a Bond…
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In Prince of Persia, Jake Gyllenhaal pulls off the tremendous feat of becoming at once both more butch and more femme. Shot in Morocco, the plot revolves around a regicidal Royal who – eschewing more time-tested methods of removing his royal rivals (eg poison, gutting, beheading etc.) – devises a really outraegously convoluted plot whereby…
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