| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bride Wars - PG | January 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Unborn - PG-13 | January 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Shrek the Third (Shrek 3) - PG | The law of diminishing returns *really* bit hard on this one | January 3, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - R | December 31, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Reefer Madness - The Movie Musical - R | December 29, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - PG-13 | December 27, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Slumdog Millionaire - R | December 16, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| The Notorious Bettie Page - R |
In telling the story of pin-up icon, Bettie Page, The Notorious bettie page necessarily skips over much bit does a great job of capturing both Bettie's exhuberance and her sense of fun. Gretchen Mol is perfectly cast in the lead role and really dos bring her character to life, so much so that many of the scenes manage to raise a warm smile and a feeling of genuine fondness for the chararcters. The film focusses primarily on the perfiod of Bettie's modelling career and, inevitably, the senate investigation that brought it to an end. The coverage of this investigation is both accurate and really does bring home the venal idiocy of those behind it. Bettie Page is still an icon today and the revealing portrait of the paranoia that can be whipped up over a collection of photos is still relevant today. |
December 13, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Frost/Nixon - R | December 7, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| A.R.O.G - Unrated | December 7, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Araburu tamashii-tachi (Agitator) (The Outlaw Souls) - Unrated | December 3, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| The Host (Gwoemul) - R |
Monster movies have often provided a way of talking about the concerns of the day and The Host, with it's industrial pollutuion and givernment conspiracies is no exception. Where The Host does break with tradition is that the monster makes its appearance pretty much as soon as we're past the opening credits. But what a monster it is! If spectacular special effects are the bag that you're into, then this really is a film that you need to see. The plot itself, however, prefers to focus on the family of one of the monster's (still living) victim and, here, it does a great job of finding a balance between comedy and tension. Although the characters are often slapstick in their behaviour, you do find yourself starting to care about them and it's this that keeps you hooked on the film. And the ending is one of the best I've seen in a long time |
December 1, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) - PG-13 | November 28, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Changeling - R | November 28, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Quantum of Solace - PG-13 | November 28, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Twilight - PG-13 | November 28, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Transporter 3 - PG-13 | November 28, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Tango - Unrated | November 22, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One in) - R | November 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| The Fountain - PG-13 |
The Fountain is certainly very pretty to look at but a collection of nicely shot scenes do not, on their own, amount to a film, or make a film worth watching. The problem here is that Aranofsky is so busy beating you around the head with all of his New Age inspired symbolism that he seems to have forgotten that a film needs a script. Although the Conquistador storyline was (for the most part) reasonably well done, I couldn't make myself believe in the modern day versions of Tom and Izzy and I simply didn't care about the future Tom. Maybe Aranofsky could have got away with this if the film had had something interesting to say. But it doesn't. What we have instead is a collection of rather uninspired platitudes about life, death, and so on being endlessly repeated without ever being expanded, extended or properly explored. The Fountain is a slickly made, painfully self-important film, and ultimately vacuous waste of celluloid. |
November 13, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Repo! The Genetic Opera - R | November 9, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Franklyn - R | November 3, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| District B13 (Banlieue 13) - R | October 17, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Religulous - R | October 12, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| No Right Turn - Unrated |
Writer/director, David Noel Bourke has a real talent for capturing the underside of Danish society. I have no idea as to the accuracy of his portrayal of the minor criminals that populate this film, but it certainly all feels sleazily realistic. No Right Turn is a fairy tale masquerading as a crime thriller. The film incorporates familiar themes of innocence and corruption, and guilt and redemption but, by placing these themes into a gritty modern setting, manages to become something utterly unique. Full Review is here |
October 5, 2008 | N/A |
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