Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Safety not guarenteed

Endearing Indie film about lost people finding togetherness. One of the couples even sets off in time machine boat!!! Made by Little Miss Sunshine peeps. Lots of small roles well done. Premise is ad in newspaper for time traveling partner!!
You can take time off from the summer spandex nonsense!

Seeking a friend for the end of the world

Odd film. Don't like Steve Correll much. Do like Keira Knightly. She had some really batty facial expressions in this film. V offputting. In general the film was offputting . Saccerine ending. If you have something else to do, do that,

Friday, May 18, 2012

Dictator

Sasha Baron Cohen be quiet!!!

The best exotic marigold hotel

Marvelous romp with all one's fave actors. Judi Dench, Maggie Smith et al!!! Just well done funk and comedy. It had a message, but one could pass it by, and just enjoy... Stereotypes n all.
Viva!!! Anyone who has been on an ethnic bus especially an Indian one, Li
like in this film will appreciate the
heart in mouth traffic scenes!

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The Pirates Band of Misfits

Are you in Hugh Grant withdrawal mode!!! Well don't despair! He's the voice of the main pirate!
This is a really fun anime film about a has been pirate wanting to make Pirate of the Year!!! It 's full of brit wit and lots if really silly fun stuff. Not really aimed at children. A bit like the time honoured ' panto'! Jolly fun and quite clever!

The 5 year engagement

Was v surprised to like this film!
It has got Emily Blunt in it. She is now
in the category of "will see anything that woman is in"!!
Film was witty and enjoyable. Jedd or Judd Apetow was in it, as the chef fiancé, and he was funny. Also one of the women from Madmen played Emily Blunt's sister. I'm whiz at names!!!

Monday, April 23, 2012

Blue like jazz

Odd film. Super Christian boy goes from southern baptist security to pc granola crunching insecurity in OR. Point well made that cliques don't like outsiders. Christian boy is endearing. Reminds one of the nerdy off n on mgr of the Entourage boy darling - Vince-
Bible boy befriends lezzie girl A d they both go through crises. B boy becomes new 'pope' in OR school r
Ritual. There then ensues a setioly boring exchange between B boy and soon to be ex Pope.

This film will not rock your word but it
will quirk a few hours and thought patterns out of you!!!

Monday, April 2, 2012

21 Jump St

Slightly apprehensive, but then it roared or biked into silly, screaming slapstick action. Silly but well done!!
Wonderfully fast, well put together. Understandably teenagerish, but you will laugh!!

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Huzzahhh!!!!!
Excellent title! It could be a saying, like hiking the Appalachian trail, only with all the uplifting pozzies instead of the snarking neggies!
Jolly good story. Nice class of good ok English sarcasm, with a dear little Scottie doggie thrown in. One loves Kristin Scott (har) Thomas. And how
did they find Amr Waked??? The shaking' Sheik of Yemineeee !!!!
Rousing tale but tongue fairly plonked in dem cheek as only Los Britos can do!!!! Luvvvvvvit!!!

Hunger Games

This is a social phenomenon along with that stupid Swedish Girl w the Dragon Tattoo.
I was almost interested in it at the beginning. It staged like an opera set. I liked the costumes of the downtrodden and the down threaders. I was prepared for a bit of a farce!! But oh no! The realty tv survival stuff set in and we were in for yawning tedium!
Pity In a way! It could have been a well staged acid bath. Some good actors Woody Harrelson, David Tucci, girl from Winter's Bone, and good old' white hair Sutherland!!

Friends with kids

Predictable, tedious, a bit nasty!!
If you have had or are having a relationship which produced children, go into the cinema warily. And then remember that the ending is so cheese ridden that you can dope yourself into believing that you've escaped the other stuff, or are above it, too!

Monday, March 5, 2012

Wanderlust

Jolly little comedy ala meet the fockers. I generally find Jennifer Aniston tedious but she was only moderately tedious here. Group of batty hippies entertain ex rat race couple. Alan Alda is on duty. It's with a few hours of yr time.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Thin Ice

Alan Arkin from Little Miss Sumshine
and Sunshine Cleaning was in this. Tale of rascally insurance agent getting his comeuppance. Pretty funny in a small film way. The ending is a bit unjustified. It is just plunked down aka Miss Marple in the library. But it's fun and sort of quirky.

Safe House

Set in s Africa. This was the best part of this otherwise tedious 'must we sit through it' chase-Othon. Denzel W and Sam Shephard yawn yawn convoluted spy drama. John le C does this so much better. Glimpses of s Africa
Interesting.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Incredibly Loud Extremely Close

Incredibly tedious and Extremely Unbelievable!
May have got the title wrong!
Boy loses Father in 9/11 drama!
Obnoxious brat. Kind of child you want to feed into a meat grinder and press the on button. St Tom Hanks plays noble paternal. Vomit. Sandra Bullock plays devoted wife and mother. Yuck!
Everything is done to manipulate the emotions. In a caper film one might forgive, but there is no humour anywhere here. And it goes on and on. I wanted to yell obscenities when the beastly brat finds a note that the dead nobility left in the swing that the brat was afraid to ride before!!! Pooh to all this shit!!!

Albert Nobbs

Marvelous job by Glenn Close!!!
Also liked the lady man painter!!!
Good film about quiet desperation. Very much a Masterpiece Theatre type thing.
Do wonder about someone really pulling it off, though. Could Albert really pull off the woman masquerading as a man? Wouldn't she have been nobbled ???? Would have been more convinced if it had been an open secret. Still a good film, though. How really well do we know people?

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

One for the Money

We all love the Janet Evanovich
novels. Stephanie Plum, Lula, Morelli, and Ranger.

This film was good. Trenton looked convincing. Heigl was good as Stephanie, Ranger could have looked a little more haughty and aloof. Morelli was not quite convincing. Stephanir's mama was good and so was grandma Mazr. Lula was not such a force in this first novel. Good romp. Almost a Sandra Bullock style thing. Love able klutz girl w a weakness for men who comes out ok!!!

You may see it!!!

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Carnage

This is one of the better films I've seen, recently. It's one of those theatre play films. Two locations. One inside the flat and a couple of brief scenes in some NY park. Sort of a Woody meets Larry event.
It's about a classic event. Two boys have a boyz fight, and then the parents have to deal. The carnage that ensued is so well done!!!

Have to say that Roman Polanski would not have been approved by the Jodie Foster ch..

This is a low budget film that worked !!!
Boojah.......

Monday, January 16, 2012

The Iron Lady

Let me say that I was disgusted by this film. I went and checked before I wrote this. I thought... Did I miss her death??? I really think it is utterly tasteless to delve so intimately into someone's life while they are still alive.

If she were dead, then I could say it was a darn good film. Meryl Streep is amazing. The people who did the hair and voice coaching were terrific and the flashback method is good!!

But let the woman die in peace before such things are released!!!

In the land of blood and honey

Well A Jolie is not just a pretty face!! This is a very provocative film!
Trouble has been taken to provide a moving believable presentation of this vile and ongoing episode. What struck was the geographical beauty of the
Boz Herz region. Also what a stunning young woman who played Ajila or the Muslim central character. The critics called this film preachy. I disagree. I was riveted from start to finish'

Monday, January 9, 2012

The Artist

A rather precious film, for all those Woody Allen fans. This is a French production I think. It is interesting to see a production in black and white, though. All the gestures are so melodramatic. It is worth seeing bit not as fab as the critics made out!!!

Young Adults

Nice to see Charlize Theron play a nasty ch again!! The film is agonizing, actually, not funny so much as thought provoking!! Worth seeing!

Friday, January 6, 2012

La Conquete

Well I am not a Sarko-boy, quite yet!!! But it was really interesting to see a film about Nikolas Sarkozy. It was v interesting. I knew almost nothing about him, except that he and Angela of Deutschland are dealing with Europe. Re the workings of the film, I really longed for a more sophisticated rendering. It was a bit of Sarko-thump.


Still worth seeing or streaming!!