Movie: The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher was for me the British Prime Minister when I was still a child: I saw more of her in parody than in real footage, and so this biopic of her was a different experience for me than for the people in the cinema who were old enough to remember …
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movie: In Time
Movie: In Time From the writer and director of Gattaca (a well-executed sci-fi film with Ethan Hawke from the late 90’s), the trailer for this film intrigued me, and so – with not many choices – I ended up seeing it on the big screen. Justin Timberlake (who seems to have made the move from …
movie: cowboys and aliens
Cowboys and Aliens I’ve long been a fan of Jon Favreau movies (Swingers, Iron Man and to a lesser extent Made and Iron Man 2), and so was looking forward to this one. The “blonde Bond” – Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde (13 from House, and the only female character in Tron 2) …
movie: the tree of life
Movie: The Tree of Life I saw another film by director Terrence Malick years ago – Thin Red Line, and it made enough of an impression that when I heard about this film, I decided to do what I could to go and see it. Fortune smiled on me and I won a couple of …
movie: fast five
Movie: Fast Five Watching the trailer for the fifth movie in the fast and the furious franchise sets the scene well. This isn’t going to be a nuanced, character driven drama, but an action movie with one-liners, fast cars, and people hitting and shooting at each other. In the earliest scene of prolonged dialogue in …
Movie: The Fighter
[movie] The Fighter New biopic starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, and Amy Adams. Lots of positive buzz for this film. To get the most out of a viewing, don’t watch the trailer beforehand, as it gives away most of the key plot-points in the film. This could have been a run-of-the-mill Rocky clone, but for …
Movie: TRON: Legacy
Movie: TRON: Legacy One of the first movies I ever saw in the cinema was the original TRON. I remember Dad dropped Mum and I off at the (long, long since closed) Roselands cinema. The house lights went down, and up came a film. I have no idea what it was, but I remember that it was …
Movie: The King’s Speech
Movie: The King’s Speech Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush work brilliantly together on the screen in this period piece set in 1930s England. The advent of a new technology – wireless broadcasting – means that the role of a monarch is changing. King George V (Michael Gambon) explains that with radio, subjects are looking for …
Movie: Megamind
Movie: Megamind Will Ferrell leads this digital animation piece. The 3D adds little or nothing to it (except to the ticket price), and though only 95 minutes long, it felt like it had about 15 minutes too much in there. Enjoy the trailer: it has the majority of the jokes (with the exception of pronouncing “Metro …
movie: the social network
Movie: the social network. Since this movie was released, people have been telling me that I should see it, and that I’d really enjoy it. This is perhaps because I’m an Aaron Sorkin fan (the writer and executive producer of the West Wing) and a David Fincher fan (the director of Fight Club, Panic Room …