A lot of people get killed in this film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501
Tropic Thunder
This is at times a funny movie making light of the Hollywood system. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942385
The Boy in the striped pyjamas
Filmed in Hungary. I put off seeing this film but am glad I went to see it. I thought it was really well played.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/
Appaloosa
Ariadna Gil (pictured) who was in Pan’s Labyrinth, plays a supporting role in Appaloosa with Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Rene Zellweger, and oh yeah Jeremy Irons. Great western in the tradition of great westerns. David Denby of the New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/09/29/080929crci_cinema_denby said it took place in a town without a newspaper but in an early [...]
Righteous Kill
De Niro and Pacino together again just like with Scorsese, just like in Heat. Would this movie have been any good without them? It’s a not who you think it might be shootemup story. John Leguizamo is good as always, Donnie Wahlberg too. Carla Gugino who I don’t remember seeing before as the female lead [...]
How to lose friends and alienate people
Staunch readers of my tribe if not wordpress blog will know that I have read this book, and have been looking forward to this movie. I went to the premiere this evening, bypassing the drinks party which I didn’t have an invite to and going in to the screening room early. I could have lifted [...]
SAAS BAHU AUR SENSEX
Well so much for Google Translate’s facilities with Hindi although it seems to work great in other languages. Two interwoven plots in this movie about life in the new booming Mumbai economy centred around the Sensex exchange giving much rise to double entendres regards a group of women investors three of whom have offspring that [...]
Die Welle
I arrived at this film with the Peruvian just as the censors advisory was being shown on screen. My arrival followed a fifty mile bike ride, a quick face wash and a closed Danish sandwich without butter. Don’t you love that for timing?
It only took a minute or so before the Peruvian asked me which [...]
The Women
I have to admit I have never seen the original which this film is supposedly only partly based on, so I don’t know if that takes away from the reverence for which this version is supposed to be held. I tried to like this Sex and the City version and almost did. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430770/
Rocknrolla
Guy Ritchies’ latest, wait you hadn’t heard? Unlike Jason Solomon reviewing at the Observer while Phillip French is away, I really thought the gay subplot in this film was very funny, and for that and a few of the other subplots, I reccomend this film. Gerald Butler and Thandie Newton pictured http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032755/
