| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
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| The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - PG-13 | I clicked 'not interested' on this one and I just wish my husband had'nt brought it home "for me"-arrrggghh what a waste of time!! | October 25, 2009 | N/A | |||
| High Anxiety - PG |
Hey Flixster friends!
Just logged on to find many many messages. I've been MIA for a while-busy with life and other slings and arrows.Will try my best to get back to everyone-but it's gonna take some time... Great movie by the way! Finally saw Valkyrie-what a self indulgent piece of crap-all those intense close ups of the Tom Cruise-gag... |
October 16, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Little Voice - R | October 7, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Down to the Dirt - Unrated |
This film is a depressing coming-of-age story based upon Newfoundland author Joel Hynes' first novel. It's gritty and dirty in the depiction of the main character's plummet from small community- troubled teen to a drug and alcohol addicted young man bent on self destruction.The author portrays the main character quite well and has some promise as an artist and author.
I have'nt read the book but the film is OK...It's immature in development and chock full of cliches but this young man does a decent job of portraying his main character's angst and eventual enlightenment. A very good first project... |
October 3, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Breakfast on Pluto - R | October 3, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| A Serious Man - R | October 3, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Exorcist - R |
I saw this movie when I was 12/13 years old when it was re-released around 1974. My father would not allow me to see it the first time round,so I bought the book and devoured it-much to his chagrin...
The book was excellent-and quite successful in scaring the bejesus out of me. BUT the movie-oh my god!!!! It really frightened me to death. I am always surprised when people say that it was funny or overrated-because it truly was the scariest movie ever upon release. Was it just Catholics who flipped out over the film? I was raised in a non practising Catholic family,but they sent me to an all girls Catholic school right up through high school. I need only to hear Tubular Bells and the hair still stands up on my arms and neck. I watched this movie with my teen stepson and his friend-wanting to share this horrifying experince with the generation of slash and gore fans and they LAUGHED... They thought it was funny. I remain flabbergasted and a tad disappointed in their reaction. This is my Halloween "offering". THE scariest movie I've ever seen. |
October 2, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Shadows In The Sun (The Shadow Dancer) - Unrated | September 27, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| A Family Thing - PG-13 | Add a review (optional)... | September 27, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Wanderers - R | September 22, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Stuck - R | September 22, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Atonement - R |
I waited a while to see this movie because the book was so beautifully written.I thought the film adaptation could never work because of the structure of the story- mainly internal stream of consciousness for the first half of the novel and largely throughout. So many great books that rely on inner reality over the external make wretched films but this adaptation was very well done. I highly recommend the movie and of course the book.
I have to agree with McKittrick on the stunning Keira Knightly in that sexually lethal green gown. She was perfect for the part of the older sister to Brianny-the child story teller and redemptive adult writer. She too was perfectly cast as one of the most annoying little girls in literature (haha) whose unrelenting imagination leads to tragic occurances for her sister and her lover. |
September 20, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Secret Life of Bees - PG-13 |
A heartwarming,life affirming film adaptation of the novel-and a good one at that.Dakota Fanning is amazing as the tortured Lily-a little girl haunted by the loss of her mother and the contempt and abuse at the hands of her father.She decides to run away and is embraced by the incredible August played by Queen Latifah and her 2 sisters,played by Alicia Keyes and Sophie Okonedo-both named May and June respectively. Jennifer Hudson also stars as Lily's friend and fellow runaway who was beaten for trying to register to vote.
Set against the social backdrop of segregation in the south, the film is a commentary on the human condition and particularly the strength and support that strong women can provide for each other. Queen Latifah is one of the finest actors today and it is ridiculous that she has not had more roles like this one to show her skill and authenticity,her range of emotion and versatility. Some might write this film off as "chick flikish" but it is a film for humanists highlighting the glory and strength of women together and the healing power of love and unconditional acceptance. |
September 19, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Great White Hope - PG-13 | Add a review (optional)... | September 19, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Hounddog - R |
Three and a half stars primarily for Dakota Fanning's brilliant portrait of a poor,pre-teen Southern girl in the 1950's, lonely but adventurous and consumed with her love of Elvis. Her imitation of Elvis, complete with gyrating pelvis, is quaint and naively sexual. She loves Elvis but does'nt really know the source of her fixation.Her dream of getting a ticket and seeing Elvis perform, results in betrayal and a sexual assault. She stops singing...
This film was released in 2008 and thanks to the American "morality police" condemning it for child sexual exploitation-it slid under the radar. A shame really, because the little girl from I am Sam has grown up and evolved into a very competent actor with great emotional range and such potential... The controversy over the film in preproduction resulted in the morality police succeeding in having it pulled from several theatres.The irony being that there is no sexually explicit/exploitative content but that does'nt matter to the bigots who condemned it because most did'nt even see it in all liklihood... I recommend it despite the weakness of the film in general. The most interesting relationship the character has is with an aging black man who is her friend and protector and a blues man. At one point ,he asks her when she is going to get into the blues. She responds by saying that she can't sing the blues because she is'nt black. Well, ultimately her rendition of Hounddog becomes legitimate blues as she tries to come to terms with her victimization and familial deprivation- all thanks to the gentle benevolence of her black mentor. Cliched all to hell but watch the film for Fanning's performance. I got in trouble a while back with my contention that Malle's Pretty Baby was seually eploitative of a very young Brooke Shield's. My position remains unchanged but this film showed how sensitive subject matter can be dealt with tastefully without exploitation. |
September 18, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) - PG-13 |
An interesting fictional story about a friendship that develops between 2 eight year old boys-one a captive Jewish child, the other an "Aryan" child of a camp commandent. The concept is quite novel and ultimately tragic against the backdrop of childish perceptions, true innocence and promises kept in friendship.
I have to read the book now- as the film seemed to suffer from poor editing and direction.So much potential but not enough film-maker discretion but I'm glad to have seen it. Thereseinstadt was the Camp which the Nazi's put forth as a" model facility", complete with propaganda films on the "quality of life" for the inmates.It was chosen as the camp the Nazi's opened to the Red Cross as stories of the horrors of the concentration camps spread throughout the world.The Red Cross inspected Thereseinstadt and was comfortably impressed....HG Adler wrote about the true state of affairs there and in Bergen-Belsen (Auswitz). I read about this several months ago and it came back when the propaganda film was being shown in the movie. |
September 15, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Browning Version - R | Anguish,perfectly filmed and supremely portrayed by Albert Finney. | September 14, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Fateless - R | September 13, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| How to Make an American Quilt - PG-13 | September 12, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Shattered Glass - PG-13 | September 10, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Now, Voyager - Unrated | One of Bette's finest. | September 9, 2009 | N/A | |||
| They Made Me a Fugitive (I Became a Criminal) - PG | September 9, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Old School - R | The premise is weak and the plot development certainly inferior, but there are moments in this movie where I laughed so hard I feared I'd have a cardiac event. Fortunately, I did'nt and am now watching it for the ???th time-anticipating those hysterical moments already chuckling...5 full shining stars-I love it!! | September 8, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Corporation - Unrated | September 6, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Why We Fight - PG-13 | September 6, 2009 | N/A |
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