This was on TV last night and I remembered that I wanted to see it, but not why. Then "screenplay by Nick Cave" came on the screen and I remembered ( Read more... )

Not a lot to it plot-wise, but what there is is not bad. And it's very, very impressive to look at.

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This has been sitting on the recorder for ages because I've been waiting to have enough functional brain cells to devote to it. Eventually admitted that was never going to happen and watched it anyway yesterday.

Bleak and a bit complicated, but very, very good.

A 2010 low-budget British black comedy about two men who go around the country performing "the procedure", which seems to be to delve into people's subconscious to reveal their innermost thoughts. It's not very clear. Then they get a non-standard case and become personally involved with the family in question ( Read more... )

I recorded this because Liam Neeson.

It turned out to be a not bad tale of survival (or lack thereof) in the wilderness, and unexpectedly emotional at the end.

Definitely better than 2, which is admittedly not hard. I'd almost go so far as to say it's good. Even has two strong female characters (OK, so one of them is evil, but that's not the point).

As always, the only real draw is RDJ.

An Argentine film about two priests and a social worker working in a slum of Buenos Aires, where thousands of people live in and around the shell of a half-finished building that had been intended to be the biggest hospital in South America ( Read more... )

As far as I can remember (which isn't much; feel free to correct me), it's not that different from the original.

Enjoyable enough though.

Somebody just wanted to go to lots of cool places to film this, right?

Otherwise, it's pretty pointless.