Movies

  What an odd movie. I mean truly odd. Watching it felt like we’d entered the cinema late and missed the beginning, and then someone forget to tack the end onto it. Now I need to say straight off that I like movies that are more experience-driven than narrative-driven, since Continue Reading

  Super 8 I loved this movie! It promised a return to feel good 1970s family movies with a 21st Century knowing postmodern edge and it didn’t fail to deliver. Media wunderkind, JJ Abrams of LOST and Alias fame, continues to show that spending his childhood in the 70s making Continue Reading

  Two great movies but vastly different. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is a movie that surprised me completely. I had expected a love story, set in a Depression-era circus travelling across the United States, and while that is in part, largely what I saw, it was also a movie with great cruelty Continue Reading

My lord it’s been a mainstream movie fest this week! Usually I avoid a lot of these big tentpole blockbusters, not because I am some sort of twisted movie snob preferring only movies about suffering Romanian peasants during the Depression – although that could be kind of gripping….or not – Continue Reading

  I am not a fan of slasher flicks generally. It’s not the fear of what might happen next that truly bothers me, although I appreciate that is largely what draws most people to them. No, the reason I avoid them like a, um, serial killer, is that the thought of Continue Reading

I love French movies. Well, now I do. Hated them at high school when the only ones I saw were weird, odd, or badly put together. But modern French movies have struck a chord with me, and from the delights of Amelie, to the darker story of The Hedgehog, I Continue Reading

This is a fun movie (Open Air Cinema, 17 February 2011). No, it won’t win Oscars, and doesn’t canvas any great social issues – unless you consider fragile egos, and media vacuousness to be crushing issues that are about to doom society as we know it; although watching some of Continue Reading

This is an intense movie…. but also a curiously un-involving one. The first part is to be expected given it’s subject matter of death and the after life, and for the most part the movie succeeds in not letting the emotionally heavy subject matter drag it’s narrative into a melancholic mire. Continue Reading

What a wonderful movie.   I have often had a difficult time with Coen Brothers movies – enjoying how articulate and clever they are, and enjoying immensely the great subtle (or not so subtle) wit they bring to their creations but also finding their odd take on things a little Continue Reading

  What a marvelous movie. I had heard all the hype, read all the glowing reviews, and with actors of the calibre of Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter (playing, with great believability, a ‘normal’ character, for once; not that I don’t like her weird oddball characters which Continue Reading