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?