| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What Just Happened? - R | interesting take on what it means to produce a film these days. nothing goes right, and you have directors and stars to contend with. De Niro is wonderfully understated as usual and Bruce Willis as Bruce Willis is a hoot. | September 10, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Other Boleyn Girl - PG-13 |
scheming, plotting, whoring out your daughters to increase your social status. History has all the elements for a classic episode of Eastenders! While this flick is wrapped in the bodice ripping wrapper that makes women swoon and men go for the remote, the story was quite intriguing and held my interest. Set against the period where Henry VIII broke from Rome to form the Church of England, it's quite interesting to see what a human being - whether a king, queen, parent or sibling - would do to protect their standing and get what they want. It's also worth nothing that NONE of the three main leads were British... is there no one on these shores capable of portraying Anne, Mary or Henry? |
August 31, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Waitress - PG-13 |
A cute quirky indie, made all the more watchable by the pie creating Felicity and the twitchy, nervous Nathan Fillon. It was also nice to see Cheryl David in something other than Curb as well. Jeremy Sisko, however, steals the show as the horrible husband Earl. He's quite possibly one of the more evil bad guys I've seen on screen for a while, and my hat off to him for doing it with mere words, attitude and that damn car horn. |
August 31, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard - R | August 27, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Hangover - R | August 27, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Funny People - R | August 27, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Up - PG | August 27, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Alice in Wonderland - Unrated | August 27, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| 2012 - PG-13 | August 27, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - PG | August 27, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Surrogates - PG-13 | August 27, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Look Who's Talking - PG-13 | Travolta and Alley before they got fat. | August 27, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Wrestler - R |
You can imagine there's a lot of victims of success that end up like this - musicians, wrestlers, movie stars, etc. Living off the faded glories of years ago because you have nothing else. It's quite heartbreaking really. Marisa Tomei, as always, is a stunning breath of fresh air and looking fitter than ever. Fantastic film and really well shot by Aranofski. The over the shoulder camera style is really cool, as we don't actually see Rourke's face for the first few minutes, instead seeing the world - and the adulation of the next generation of wrestlers - from the same view point as his character. Recommended. |
August 27, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Munich - R | 2.5 hours about how Chopper/The Hulk became a killer. | August 23, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Definitely, Maybe - PG-13 |
what could have been general schlocky rom-com fare was saved by the increasingly likeable Reynolds (having to live down some HUGE disappointment in the way of his character in Two Guys and a Pizza). The female leads, while all riffing on a different female archetype, were also quite fully fleshed out and well acted. At times the films hovered a bit close to Princess Bride in storytelling device, but veered enough to remain fresh. |
August 23, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Cold Mountain - R |
a tale of lost love during the US civil war. read more like a series of vignettes as jude law's character comes across a number of different scenarios on his travels back to cold mountain. kidman's character arc is impressive. From useless southern belle, to tormented grieving daughter, to dab farm hand. |
August 23, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Yes Man - PG-13 |
Based on the Danny Wallace book that followed the premise - say yes to everything you're asked. Of course, this being a Hollywood film it all works out time and time again. The one time things might not go Jim Carrey's way, they... end up working themselves out. Nothing more than a rom-com at the end of the day. One for the ladies! |
August 1, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Brüno (Bruno) - R | he just goes further than you or I ever would and some of the comedy is tinged with horror especially at the expense of the Yanks | August 1, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Eagle Eye - PG-13 | a harrowing tale of when technology goes awry. Like 2001 for the internet age. | July 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Blindness - R |
A dystopian view of a very bleak future. Discarding reasoning (like why they went blind, why Julianne Moore's character didn't) the film deals with how society inevitably crumbles when social constructs are pealed away. The films main set piece - the "concentration camp" - is a harrowing view of how society will stop at nothing to protect itself - the society inside and outside the walls. There are many shocking moments and scenes that question how human humanity actually is. |
July 20, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Rachel Getting Married - R | Wow | July 10, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Interview - R |
Quite an intriguing film, a remake of the Theo Van Gogh 2003 original. Buscemi plays a booze quaffing political journo who's career has sunk so low he has to do puff pieces on airhead actresses. All along you believe he's in complete control, toying with Miller's character trying to get ANYTHING of use out of her. In the end, it turns out she's given nothing away and Buscemi is the one who actually was interviewed, who we learn details about. Well crafted. |
July 6, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Rocker - PG-13 | Decent tale of a wronged drummer finally getting his karma hit back. The whole rise to fame thing was a bit OTT and the resolve at the end was kinda funny, if a bit hokey. There's some nice comedy moments, especially as FIsh finally gets his righteous place on the tour machine and wants to live it for what it's worth while his band just want to play XBox and sleep. | July 2, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - PG-13 |
Leave your brain at the door. Featuring rather confusing battle scenes you just have to go with, a plot that involved the destruction of the earth (would anything else suffice) and an American army that STILL thinks bullets will harm a Transformer, when the Transformers can't seem to harm each other. There's touching moments, funny moments, but no real smart moments, but then again this type of film is all about the action, the transformations and the explosions. |
June 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Fuck (F*ck) - Unrated |
Interesting insight into this most explosive words. Makes you question - from a liberal point of view - why we don't say it all the time in every situation. The conservatives were hilarious in their "don't use the word cuz it's wrong" blindness. This, coupled with the old "you're going to hell for cussing" idiocy. The best quote comes from Pat Boone who chooses to use "BOOONE!" as his expletive of choice, to which Ice-T replies, "I'm going home to Boone the hell out of my wife tonight!" Billy Connelly, as usual, is the standout in a star studded line up of talking heads. |
June 24, 2009 | N/A |
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