It’s quite hard to dislike George Clooney. Especially his cool liberalism (unless, I guess, you’re on the political right) and that natural suave charm. Somehow he even manages to escape the potential charge of hypocrisy in the light of his outward concern for humanitarian issues as he takes a pay-cheque promoting coffee machines from a [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Up In The Air
Posted in movie review, tagged comedy, George Clooney, Jason Reitman, Juno, relationships, reviews on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Prophet: Formed In The Crucible
Posted in movie review, tagged A Prophet, identity, prison, racial identity, reviews, thrillers on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Why is it that sub-titled films are such a hard sell to English speaking audiences? In The Prophet we have a gritty, gripping crime/prison drama with more than a hint of Scorsese in its influences. While it will probably do well, it’s not going to tear up any trees in the box office – largely [...]
The Road: Urgent, terrible beauty
Posted in movie review, tagged adaptations, apocalypse, John Hillcoat, reviews, The Road, Viggo Mortensen on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
More filming the unfilmable. That is, unfilmable and unsellable if audiences depend on lazy and quick judgements. Cormac McCarthy’s novels are hot film property just now after the Oscar success of No Country For Old Men. In case you didn’t know, McCarthy is one of America’s greatest novelists. His territory is that of struggle against [...]
Nine
Posted in movie review, tagged Chicago, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, musicals, Nine, reviews, Rob Marshall on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A film about a character in a film, which is really an autobiographical one about the director. That’s not the most appealing set-up, I agree. It makes you think that its full of post-modern navel gazing and empty symbolism. Well that would be harsh. Forget about the roots of the film (click on the link [...]
