Dogville dir. by Lars Von Trier
This is not a film for everyone, as I watched it quite a few members of the audience left. One couple even left with less the 20 minutes to go, nevertheless...
15 November 2003
Cold Mountain [based on book] by Charles Frazier dir. by Anthony Minghella
I’m going to start this review by saying that I loved this film, it was really great. And I had had doubts before I went to see it. I hadn’t much...
15 November 2003
The Matrix Revolutions dir. by Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
V disappointing, think they really should have stopped after the first film and let the audience make up the end themselves. The film starts off pretty much where Reloaded ended, with...
7 November 2003
Touching the Void dir. by Kevin McDonald
Now this is an impressive documentary/film. Telling the story of Joe and Simon as they set out to conquer a previously unscaled face of Siula Grande in Peru in 1985. Mountaineering...
19 October 2003
SWAT dir. by Clark Johnson
The latest offering from Colin Farrell and another film featuring cops. But sadly this is a rubbish film. The dialogue is so cliched that one has to laugh the whole way...
19 September 2003
Intermission dir. by John Crowley
A great film. Found it really funny, and despite the fact that it is a very Irish film there is not a bit of Oirishness to it. The plot revolves around...
15 September 2003
Spin the Bottle dir. by Ian Fitzgibbon
This is an Irish film, with some of the same characters as the spoof documentary Paths to Freedom. I didn’t catch a lot of that series, but thought I’d pop along...
22 July 2003
Big Fish [based on book] by Daniel Wallace dir. by Tim Burton
This a wonderfully easy film. Easy to watch, easy to enjoy but I also found it easy to forget :( I’d still recommend it, but it is not an outstanding classic....
15 July 2003
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [based on the book by] by Robert Louis Stevenson dir. by Victor Fleming
Watched Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde over the weekend, the 1941 version, with Spencer Tracy & Ingrid Bergman. It was quite good, interesting point, if one is totally evil does one...
7 July 2003
Lost – White Rabbit dir. by Kevin Hooks
The realities of being ship-wrecked (plane wrecked doesn’t sound right does it?) begin to set in. Water is in short supply, and there is a death. Bringing the number of survivors down to 46. (spoilers if you read on)
15 June 2003