4 April 2007
Cast: Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti, Rufus Sewell
Script: Neil Burger
Genre: drama, romance
Setting: Austria, C20th
7 Stars
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In Austria at the turn of the 20th century a young carpenter’s son falls in love with a girl from the local nobility. Obviously her family are not impressed by this and do their best to separate the pair, and … Continue reading
17 August 2006
Cast: Bob Balaban, Bryce Dallas Howard, Cindy Cheung, Freddy Rodríguez, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Giamatti, Sarita Choudhury
Script: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: sff
5 Stars
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This is an odd film. A very odd film.
Ever since The Sixth Sense Shyamalan has been known as the “twist guy” for his film endings; I don’t think that is a fair description. And while you can say that Unbreakable, Signs and The Village all had twists to their endings, the twists weren’t all that important. The films were stories about people, truth, and finding out who you are. The Lady in the water continues in this vein, but at the same time it is a very different type of film. As Shyamalan has said, it is a bedtime story. A fairy tale, for children. So it is, of course, going to be more simplistic and yet at the same time it is more complicated than that.
16 September 2005
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Renée Zellweger, Russell Crowe
Script: Cliff Hollingsworth
Genre: biopic, sport
Setting: 1930s, USA - great depression
8 Stars
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– Joe Gould Based on the true story of James J Braddock. A boxing film. Set during the Depression. Consider all of these things and you may be thinking that this is a sentimental boxer-overcoming-hardship film, and, in a way … Continue reading
3 February 2005
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church
Genre: comedy, drama
8 Stars
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Thank God, a good film. A great film even, and seeing as the films I saw before this were stinkers, what a relief. Jack and Miles are best friends, Miles is Jack’s best man for his upcoming wedding. So they … Continue reading