Bollywood production with some Disney tie in. Reminded me of a combination of I dream of Genie, The Brady Bunch and Swiss Family Robinson. Set in New Delhi and Los Angeles with filming in Delhi, Thailand and So Cal.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1191138
Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic
Kung Fu Panda
This movie was fun for the kids who all lapped it up. Animation from Dreamworks.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441773
La Antena
Largely silent Argentinian movie with surreal elements and subtitles in Spanish and in English.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0454065
The edge of love
The real story of this film is the love of two women, one (Keira Knightley) whose first love was Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys), the second (Sienna Miller) who was Dylan Thomas’s wife.
Female Agents
The story takes place during WW 2, starting out in London, where four
French women, in orders from the head of Special Operations Executive,
(British department of covert warfare), are recruited by a French
officer (Julien Boisselier) and his sister (Sophie Marceau), to attempt
the rescue of an English agent (a geologist), wounded in hospital, in
Nazi occupied France, in [...]
Prince Caspian
Lord of the Hobbits type stuff, oh and there’ll always be an England (I did read the books). Great line: Prince Caspian asks one of the girls if she still wanted his horn. I am sure from the look on her face she did. Filmed in New Zealand, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Poland apparently. Snoozed [...]
Wanted
True gun love. Lots of stuff with cars and a few trains, recognizable landmarks from Chicago and Angelina Jolie’s butt. Thoroughly enjoyable.
The Ruins
This movie was well made and suspenseful throughout. If you like scary films then this is a good one, purportedly taking place in Mexico but actually shot in Australia.
The Escapist
Prison Break Anglo Irish production told in Flashbacks. Brian Cox who was in Running with Scissors as Dr Finch. Joesph Fiennes incidentally also in Running with Scissors. Dominic Cooper who was Dakin in the History Boys. Music by Coldplay and Brian Eno. Ok movie.
Heartbeat Detector
Mathieu Amalric (Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Un Secret, Munich) stars in this corporate thriller unveilling the connection of a a German multinational corporation with it’s Nazi past. In the process he, as a psychologist employed in the human resources department, is confronted with his own complicity with the supposed fascism of corporate ideology. Some [...]
