Kevin Costner tries to revive his career by going down the Liam Neeson route and doing the all action hero bit. The problem with this is that it has a beginning and end full of action but it sandwiches a dull father/daughter story that completely kills the film. Nice Try Mr Costner.
I always dread being dragged to the cinema by my kids to see ComicBook films and more often than not i end up quite enjoying them. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is no exception. Plus points are that the action is great and Scarlett Johansson is pure eye candy. Minus points are that it's at least half hour too long and the 3D is utter rubbish.
Blue Ruin is an intelligent , provocative , revenge thriller that despite being played out at a pedestrian pace throughout has you gripped from the first minute to the last . Fantastic performance from Macon Blair. Recommended.
Blue Ruin is an intelligent , provocative , revenge thriller that despite being played out at a pedestrian pace throughout has you gripped from the first minute to the last . Fantastic performance from Macon Blair. Recommended.
Blues Brothers apart i really do not like musicals. I think they have a part to play on the stage but spontaneous song in the middle of movies make me cringe. I normally avoid them. Because of some good reviews i decided to watch Sunshine on Leith. A story based around the songs of The Proclaimers. Sadly this did nothing to change my mind. I found it embarrassingly bad but do you know what? my wife absolutely loved it. That says it all really.
Not latest but just finished Alan Partridge Alpha Papa. Very funny from start to finish and some brilliant visual gags like the name of the book Angela is reading were almost missed.
This weeks offering was "The other woman" surprisingly funny film with more than few belly laughs and some well placed school boy humour put in for the boys. Kate Upton supplied the eye candy and Leslie Mann delivered the gags well with Cameron Diaz and Nikolaj Coster-Walder playing the womanizing Mark King very well. Worth a look 6.5/10
An interesting film about a man with early stages of dementia who befriends a robot and uses him in more ways than one. Frank Langella is very good and i was pleasantly surprised by this film.
I also really enjoyed this film. The robot steals the show, I became geuinely attached to him which shows good scripting.
Id give this film a generous 8.5/10 due to the empathy building characterization of Robot. Mainly writers and directors have failed before with this task.
Reasonable Doubt
legal "Thriller" with samuel L and Dominic Cooper.
I know it would be rubbish and it was. I dont get Cooper playing front man Hollywood, he has no presence in that role and looks awkward. He is a lucky boy to be getting these gigs but needs to stop churning out shite.
I cant remember what annoyed me so much about this film but I was bored sheetless.
2.5/10
Enough Said
This film puzzled me. Gandolfini in a rom com? Dodgy ground surely. However, he was excellent
However, despite a lively opening, the absence of any themes to the story disappointed. Not much comedy in it either...didnt laugh once.
Fascinating documentary film about the build up to the Mr Olympia competition in Vegas. If you think tennis players and footballers dedicate their life to their sports , think again. The guys that this film follow take dedication to a new high. I knew nothing about Mr Olympia before this and i found it eye opening. The one thing that struck me most is that they were all fairly introverted and quite miserable. Well worth a look.
Fascinating documentary film about the build up to the Mr Olympia competition in Vegas. If you think tennis players and footballers dedicate their life to their sports , think again. The guys that this film follow take dedication to a new high. I knew nothing about Mr Olympia before this and i found it eye opening. The one thing that struck me most is that they were all fairly introverted and quite miserable. Well worth a look.
An interesting concept poorly executed , which is a shame because it looks good and has a great cast. If i didn't know better i would have said this was a Terry Gilliam film but it's actually directed by south Korean , Joon-ho Bong. I saw this in a private screening but a UK release date has yet to be determined. It's as mad as a box of frogs.
More melancholy than Melancholia. Not a foot put wrong anywhere. Highly recommended.
X-Men: Days of Future Past
So looking forward to this. It's based on a two issue story by Chris Claremont and John Byrne that is arguably the best they did in their near four year tenure on the title.
More melancholy than Melancholia. Not a foot put wrong anywhere. Highly recommended.
X-Men: Days of Future Past
So looking forward to this. It's based on a two issue story by Chris Claremont and John Byrne that is arguably the best they did in their near four year tenure on the title.
It totally lives up to the hype. Quicksliver is a highlight. I think the end will cause some debate, but most people won't mind as the positives outweigh the negatives. I just won't be watching X1, X2 or X3 any time soon.
You will have try very hard to see a B movie quite as bad as this. This British crime thriller is so bad it could almost come under the banner of a comedy. The acting is amazingly bad as is the plot and i would almost go as far as to say , watch this , just for the entertainment value.
Just got out of an Edge Of Tomorrow screening. It's Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers meets The Matrix. And it works. Well paced, funny when it needs to be, likewise incredibly tense at times and fantastic to look at. It's another four star Cruise movie. He's so consistent it's quite something to behold.
My first thoughts about this film were , because of the rhetoric and jargon , that it's a war film about the British army , for the British army but thinking about it more deeply this is really an anti war film and a really good one at that. This is well acted and makes you think about how some of our boys were dumped into a pointless war without the equipment and intelligence. It was never really our fight.
Blue Ruin is an intelligent , provocative , revenge thriller that despite being played out at a pedestrian pace throughout has you gripped from the first minute to the last . Fantastic performance from Macon Blair. Recommended.
9 out of 10
Saw this last night. Left me a bit cold, give it no more than 6. I think I may have been expecting too much.
Local cinema did a one-off 20th anniversary re-showing of Pulp Fiction last night, I am too young to have caught it on the big screen first time around but it holds up really well. Tarantino is definitely a bit marmite but I am in the 'love it' camp and PF is still very good - one of the best I've seen.
I can't remember a time i was so at bored by watching an action movie as i was watching this. This film feels like it should have been made in the 1980's . Packed full of tired cliches and naff accents this is just dull , dull , dull . I hope they don't bother with another Jack Ryan film if it's as tedious as this.
This week it was Godzilla. The film worked very well despite some very dodgy and wooden acting. I assume that most of the budget was eaten up by the animation/special effects which were very good......defintley a film where the Monsters actually saved the day (and the film). 6/10...oh by the way I saw it in 3D....wasnt really much point as there wasnt anything to warrant it.
Godzilla An intelligent monster movie with something to say about the modern world and lots of property damage. One I'll happily watch again, like Cloverfield.
An Inspector Calls Not a new film but caught it yesterday afternoon on the box and it reminded me what a fine actor Alistair Sims was. It's a good film with the added bonus of being a scathing commentary on the British class system, which appeals to the leftie in me.
A good Nicholas cage film is a rare thing nowadays so when one comes along it's worth shouting about. I was lucky to see Joe last Monday in a preview screening and i loved it. Sure it's grim in places but the acting on show is outstanding and story is simple yet i was fascinated by it. Well worth catching when released in the UK in July.
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Kevin Costner tries to revive his career by going down the Liam Neeson route and doing the all action hero bit.
The problem with this is that it has a beginning and end full of action but it sandwiches a dull father/daughter story that completely kills the film. Nice Try Mr Costner.
5 out of 10
I always dread being dragged to the cinema by my kids to see ComicBook films and more often than not i end up quite enjoying them.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is no exception.
Plus points are that the action is great and Scarlett Johansson is pure eye candy.
Minus points are that it's at least half hour too long and the 3D is utter rubbish.
7 out of 10
Blue Ruin is an intelligent , provocative , revenge thriller that despite being played out at a pedestrian pace throughout has you gripped from the first minute to the last . Fantastic performance from Macon Blair. Recommended.
9 out of 10
Godzilla - surprisingly boring for a film about monsters.
Thanks for that - going on Monday.
Saw Locke this week, really enjoyed it. No action, but absorbing throughout. Thought his welsh accent was a bit dodgy now and again though.
Blues Brothers apart i really do not like musicals. I think they have a part to play on the stage but spontaneous song in the middle of movies make me cringe. I normally avoid them. Because of some good reviews i decided to watch Sunshine on Leith. A story based around the songs of The Proclaimers. Sadly this did nothing to change my mind. I found it embarrassingly bad but do you know what? my wife absolutely loved it. That says it all really.
3 out of 10
Id give this film a generous 8.5/10 due to the empathy building characterization of Robot. Mainly writers and directors have failed before with this task.
Reasonable Doubt
legal "Thriller" with samuel L and Dominic Cooper.
I know it would be rubbish and it was. I dont get Cooper playing front man Hollywood, he has no presence in that role and looks awkward. He is a lucky boy to be getting these gigs but needs to stop churning out shite.
I cant remember what annoyed me so much about this film but I was bored sheetless.
2.5/10
Enough Said
This film puzzled me. Gandolfini in a rom com? Dodgy ground surely. However, he was excellent
However, despite a lively opening, the absence of any themes to the story disappointed. Not much comedy in it either...didnt laugh once.
4.5/10
Fascinating documentary film about the build up to the Mr Olympia competition in Vegas. If you think tennis players and footballers dedicate their life to their sports , think again. The guys that this film follow take dedication to a new high. I knew nothing about Mr Olympia before this and i found it eye opening. The one thing that struck me most is that they were all fairly introverted and quite miserable. Well worth a look.
7 out of 10
More melancholy than Melancholia. Not a foot put wrong anywhere. Highly recommended.
X-Men: Days of Future Past
So looking forward to this. It's based on a two issue story by Chris Claremont and John Byrne that is arguably the best they did in their near four year tenure on the title.
You will have try very hard to see a B movie quite as bad as this. This British crime thriller is so bad it could almost come under the banner of a comedy. The acting is amazingly bad as is the plot and i would almost go as far as to say , watch this , just for the entertainment value.
1 out of 10
My first thoughts about this film were , because of the rhetoric and jargon , that it's a war film about the British army , for the British army but thinking about it more deeply this is really an anti war film and a really good one at that.
This is well acted and makes you think about how some of our boys were dumped into a pointless war without the equipment and intelligence. It was never really our fight.
8 out of 10
I can't remember a time i was so at bored by watching an action movie as i was watching this. This film feels like it should have been made in the 1980's . Packed full of tired cliches and naff accents this is just dull , dull , dull . I hope they don't bother with another Jack Ryan film if it's as tedious as this.
4 out of 10
An intelligent monster movie with something to say about the modern world and lots of property damage. One I'll happily watch again, like Cloverfield.
An Inspector Calls
Not a new film but caught it yesterday afternoon on the box and it reminded me what a fine actor Alistair Sims was. It's a good film with the added bonus of being a scathing commentary on the British class system, which appeals to the leftie in me.
A good Nicholas cage film is a rare thing nowadays so when one comes along it's worth shouting about. I was lucky to see Joe last Monday in a preview screening and i loved it.
Sure it's grim in places but the acting on show is outstanding and story is simple yet i was fascinated by it.
Well worth catching when released in the UK in July.
8 out of 10