| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CKY 3 - Unrated | December 28, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| One Dark Night - PG | December 26, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Minority Report - PG-13 | December 23, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Blood Diamond - R | December 23, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| El Mariachi - R | December 22, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Iris - R | December 22, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Josh Groban: Live at the Greek - Unrated |
The Stunning voice of Josh Grobin, every song a showstopper, performs a superb concert, with what sounds like some of the best musicians in the business.
A truly amazing performance and show. |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Monster's Ball - R |
A bitter-sweet tale from start to finish, this film is all about breaking generational cycles of learned behaviour. The film has a very raw honesty about it and the emotions go from each extreme, from no feeling to intense feeling and is a most extroidinary tale of love and lost.
It was certainly Halle Berry's best performance to date in my opinion, but Billy Bob Thornton was something else and this was arguably his best role to date too. The Father must have played a great role too, because the disgust of his character really is felt through the storytelling. One of my favourite films, it?s deep and it?s human! |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Knocked Up - R |
I have never actually wanted to see this film, assuming it to be a silly teen chick flick type film. Somebody leant me and thought I would give it a watch before giving it back and glad I did. I was totally surprised by this great humoured comedy. The contrasts of the characters, the situation and all the problems that arise, adapting, compromising and making the most of the worse circumstances.
Funny, honest and one that just grows on you as the film escalates, an instant favourite for me. |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Recruit - PG-13 |
It was hard to believe that Colin Farrell was putting on an accent in this film, the accent seems to come second nature to him now. A smooth, Action Thriller, which glimpses into the presumed training techniques within the CIA.
Trust and loyalty cannot be depended upon and everything is a game! Another good role for Al Pacino and an enjoyable conclusion. |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The General - R |
Brendon Gleeson pulls off the lesser glamorised version of events concerning the infamous Northern Irish Career Criminal known as ?The General? than Kevin Spacey did in the later film called ?Ordinary Decent Criminal?.
This version shows a slightly more violent approach, to the events which led up to his hit and shows more of the crimes he committed along with the love triangle with his wife and her Sister and their children. Actually quite comical in parts, Gleeson managed to come across as a cross between Ray Winstone and the Gene Hackman at times, but played an enjoyable role. 3.5 STARS |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Fargo - R |
The Coen Brothers dark comedy of kidnap and murder. Frances McDormand plays a great character, but it does confuse my as to why everyone says YA throughout.
Comical and enjoyable, yet still not quite seeing the genious that others tend to see with this film, although it does seem to get better with each watch. |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Scream 2 - R |
Scream 2 attempts to give you a little reverse psychology with a scene talking about how sequels to movies are always really poor, well the reverse psychology didn?t work well in this case, because this truly was a poor sequel, not that hopes had ever been high for this.
Yes this is a typical teen slasher of the 90?s and that should be the way it is viewed with no expectations of great plot and acting, but David Arquette is truly cringe-worthy in this role. My question now is do I tempt the third, knowing things cannot get worse? My obsession for finishing all sequels may just have to get the better of me and urge another whinge! |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Young Adam - R | A well appreciated film all around it seems, yet I found the story to be very slow moving. The interest no doubt, heightened with the nudity and bed-hopping of Ewan Mcgregor?s character, whilst the story itself is an interesting one, I feel this could have been condensed somewhat and was very underwhelmed by it?s ending. | December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Four Rooms - R |
The concept of this film is quirky and works well with the short stories, however it does start off a little too quirky for me and found myself irrated by Tim Roth?s character. The second half seemed to get better, but Tarantino himself didn?t help matters by playing what seemed his longest role to date in a very Quentin kind of way (love the films, not the acting QT!).
Watchable-ish, but not recommendable. |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Reader - R |
A controversial love story which is well acted and told in great sequence. What starts out as an unconventional tale of love escalates into an emotionally drawn journey between the unlikely pair.
This is a film that certainly makes an emotional impact, my only critism, (although a very small one) would be the make up for the aging process, which didn?t seem as realistic as it could have. A well acted part by David Kross. |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Bad Santa - R |
My favourite Christmas comedy of all time, a family Christmas film this ain't! In fact quite the contrary.
Billy-Bob's charater's bad attitude is hillarious, he plays a bad guy really well and the shock factor lasts throughout the film. Definitely my kind of humour. |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Body of Lies - R |
A hugely ambitious and topical film for Ridley Scott, which paid off well. The film is packed wall to wall with content, perhaps so much that a second viewing would benefit to pick up on any bits missed first time around.
Dicaprio strongly leads the cast, whilst Russell Crowe?s character wasn?t particular impressive. Mark Strong however was completely transformed and suited his part well and was an interesting character. Not so much a beginning, middle and end type of story, but one that was more like an excerpt of a period of time throughout a dangerous political assignment. |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Fallen - R |
A Supernatural, unexplicable Serial Killer film, that left me feeling quite flat on my first viewing of this film, I?m a big fan of Serial Killer films and this didn?t quite fit for me. Second watching was definitely more focussed on the Supernatural telling of the story.
Denzel Washington wasn?t particular out of the ordinary in this film, but I did like the way the paranoia was created throughout by not knowing who or where the killer was coming from next. Whilst the outcome was an ok ending, the length the final scene took seemed to go on and on and really made you lose interest in the whole film. |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| 28 Days Later - R | Written by Alex Garland, Directed by Danny Boyle and starring Cillian Murphy, this film is much better than I gave it credit for first time around. A realistic feel to an apocalyptic world, wiped out by the virus carrying ?infected?. The scenes of empty streets have a real time stopping effect and the film itself leads to many thought provoking moments. | December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Eden Lake - R |
Eden Lake is just one of many Horrors brought out with terrorising teens and yet for me this one seemed so much more realistic, perhaps because it was English made and that makes me, as an English woman relate, but hopefully also for realistic acting and disturbingly natural violence and menace.
Kelly Reilly played an interesting role in this and it was good to see Thomas Turgoose take a step back here and not take the limelight after his first two successes with Shane Meadows. Tense and shockingly not far fetched, I particularly like the way this film ended, it stayed with the realistic feel and never took on the clichés so many Horror films do. |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Elf - PG | Having never seen a film with Will Ferrel in and spotting this one on tv, I thought I would give it a whirl. It is comical in parts and certainly one the children will no doubt enjoy. | December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Fugitive - PG-13 |
Possibly the most well known ?wrongly accused? film ever made. Although a 1993 Film, this one will continue to be a timeless Classic.
The things that I always remembered about this film was firstly the train crash scene, which was not only quite impressive at the time, but the first time of viewing, it?s caused quite a tense feeling too and secondly the comical quips from Tommy Lee-Jones throughout. The Fugitive is a constant cat and mouse battle to prove innocence whilst trying to survive and not get caught too. |
December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Flightplan - PG-13 | Rec by Annelies | December 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Red Cliff (Chi Bi) - R | Rec by Scott & Lorenzo, Byron | December 22, 2009 | N/A |
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