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 …
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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 …
Movie: Despicable Me (in 3D)
Movie: Despicable Me 3D An animated comedy where the 3D doesn’t add very much (except perhaps for the rollercoaster scene, and the end credit scenes where they’re using the 3rd dimension to good effect). Steve Carrell is the voice of Gru, an aspiring super villain with an army of cute and slapstick-amusing “minions”. When he …
Movie: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Movie: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World From the director of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead – Edgar Wright – comes this new film, based on a comic book whose title comes from an obscure song from a now split-up band. It’s a mix of pop-culture references, slacker comedy, romantic comedy, and 8-bit video …
Movie: The Expendables
Movie: The Expendables Written and directed by Sylvester Stallone. This is a movie starring a range of stars from old 80’s and 90’s action movies, with ridiculous character names: Jason Statham as Lee Christmas, Jet Li as Yin Yang, Randy Couture as Toll Road, Dolph Lundgren as Gunnar Jensen, Terry Crews as Hale Caesar, Mickey …