October 2010
16 posts
September 2010
8 posts
The American President - Love at 1600
The American President is a romantic comedy set in a Democratic White house. Douglas plays Andrew Sheppard, a widowed father currently enjoying immense popularity amongst the American people. When we meet him, he has been in office for 3 years and is currently enjoying a 61% job approval rating; a rating unheard of in today’s post Financial Meltdown world. Sheppard meets Sydney Ellen Wade, played...
Invictus: you win this one
The other night I watched a dramatic reconstruction of the 1995 rugby World Cup through the eyes of Nelson Mandela. In fact I watched ‘Invictus’ – the Clint Eastwood directed mega film starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman (I’ll let you work out who played Mandela, although it probably would have made quite an interesting watch had Damon tried to pull off the role of South Africa’s great...
Cemetery Junction; Obvious Crossroads
I saw ‘The Invention of Lying’ a while back and frankly I was disappointed. It was too simple a story lacking any layering or depth. Maybe it was too Hollywood and Gervais had been sucked in by the desire to break America. Whatever happened ‘The Invention of Lying’ turned out to be bland and devoid of any real comedic punch.
With this feeling toward Gervais (and Merchant)...
PIRANHA 3D!: Better than snakes on a plane.
Bam! PIRANHA 3D! PIRANHA 3D! PIRANHA!… 3D! The sort of film that shouts out of screens and posters near you, PIRANHA 3D doesn’t promise too much more than gratuitousness… and boy does it deliver on that front (Or should I say gratui-titty-ousness. No I probably shouldn’t.) A remake of a Joe Dante directed, Roger Corman produced, shocker from the 70’s; PIRANHA 3D has it’s tongue definitely in...
August 2010
4 posts
Bob le Flambeur
A classic of French cinema and one of the style setters for the New Wave. Melville was an artist who worked outside the traditional systems in French cinema at the time. He built his own studio and created his own system.
This film takes place in the Paris suburb of Montmartre and it paints a wholly dualistic vision of the place. Heaven and hell, sin and purity all in one place. It is this...
In The Beginning...
Today is the beginning of a new film order. A film review by the people, for the people and of the people.
