Not much to say, really.  A bank robber has a mate who's mental and takes a hostage.  He lets the hostage go, discovers she lives round the corner, follows her to find out if she's working with the Feds, ends up shagging her.

Meanwhile, Pete Postlethwaite plays a nasty old Northern Irish fence and Ben Affleck somehow manages not to annoy the living ( Read more... )

I know, I'm late to the party on this but what the hell.

( Here be spoilers, if you can really spoil a documentary )

As you know, I loathe Jane Austen with a passion and would never willingly go to see a film adaptation of one of her books.

( Except maybe this one. )

Green Zone.

It's not a Bourne film. That said, I loved it even while I hated it. Nice acting (especially Greg Kinnear, Khalid Abdalla and Brendan Gleeson) perfectly shot, excellent direction and Baghdad looked and felt like Baghdad at war. The chaos, the civvies in panic, nobody really knowing what was going on... yeah, this felt a) awful ( Read more... )

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TLDR: Solomon Kane kicks ass, go see it.

Full:  The casting is a little odd. James Purefoy is very, very posh indeed. "Son of an earl"-style posh although I have no idea whether he is actually the son of an earl or not. So his attempt at a West Country accent (very piratical) was somewhat grating but not actively painful.  Okay, that's out of ( Read more... )

More improvements on Twilight:


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Review: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

I am a Terry Gilliam fan.  Have been forever, and I've never disliked one of his films.  This has not changed.

However, this is very much a Gilliam film.  If you didn't like The Fisher King and similar works, prepare to hate this.

Plot: Pretty fair.  It truncates somewhat at the end although whether this ( Read more... )

So, last night, I watched The Godfather. It's been a while.  Last time I saw it was in Godfather Trilogy format where everything's chronological and frankly, that feels lacking.  The Di Niro stuff should be in Godfather II (which I intend to also watch this week).

On its own, The Godfather is a truly great movie.  It lacks subtitling in places ( ( Read more... )