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Writ & Dir: Martin McDonagh

• Colin Farrell … Ray
• Ralph Fiennes … Harry
• Brendan Gleeson … Ken
• Clémence Poésy … Chloë

Ray and Ken are two Irish hit-men hiding out after a job. Hiding out in Bruges on orders from their boss, Harry. Ken is all set to relax and enjoy the medieval scenery and architecture. Visit the castles and churches. download free phone ringtones24 theme ringtones,24 ringtones themelg phone ringtones,ringtones for lg wireless phoneringtones maker software,nokia ringtones maker,ringtones makerdownload free ringtones lgcingular free mp3 ringtonesfree phone ringtones verizon,free verizon ringtones,customer free ringtones verizon wirelessalltel free real ringtonesdownload free mosquito ringtonescingular ringtones shop,cingular shop ringtonesdownload info remember ringtones,download info pcs remember ringtones sprint,download free info remember ringtones samsungdownload free cricket ringtonespolyphonic ringtones for sony ericssonyahoo ringtones free downloadfree country music ringtones,country music ringtonesfree real ringtones for sprint phone,sprint ringtones,free ringtones for sprint pcs phonefree music ringtones,download free music nextel ringtones,free get music ringtonesfree us cellular ringtones,free ringtones for us cellular carrier,free ringtones for us cellular phonefree cingular music ringtonescellular download free phone ringtonesfree nokia 1100 tracfone ringtonestv theme ringtonesdownload ericsson free ringtones sonycingular free music real ringtonesinfo nextel remember ringtones wallpaper,info nextel remember ringtones,info nextel personal remember ringtones wallpaper24 free ringtones6560 nokia polyphonic ringtones,nokia polyphonic ringtones,nokia 3560 polyphonic ringtones100 free virgin mobile ringtonesfree mp3 ringtones suncomfree real music ringtones sprintblackberry download free ringtonesfree crazy frog ringtones downloaddownload free ringtones to pcchristian music ringtonescell game phone ringtones wallpaper,cell phone ringtones wallpaper,cell phone ringtones and wallpaperfree logo nokia phone ringtones,free nokia phone ringtones,free ringtones for sprint phone nokia 3588imobile phone ringtones virgininfo polyphonic remember ringtones wwe,info polyphonic remember ringtones sagem,info polyphonic remember ringtonesfree ringtones from cingular,free cingular ringtones and graphicdownload nokia ringtones,download ringtones for all nokia phone,download info nokia remember ringtonesdownload free suncom ringtonesfree ringtones creator software,free ringtones software,free ware ringtones softwaredownload free real ringtonesfree ringtones convertercellular customer free ringtones usfree motorola ringtones tracfonego phone ringtonesnextel real music ringtonesfree nextel real ringtonesdownloadable cell phone ringtones Harry says it is like fairy tale, coming in on the canal. Ray isn’t so sure of that, but when he comes upon a film shot he is much more interested.

And that is enough of a plot recap. Any more would be to give away details that might spoil the enjoyment of the film. Suffice to say that this is a really good film.

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Dir: Frank Oz
Writ: Dean Craig

• Matthew Macfadyen … Daniel
• Keeley Hawes … Jane
• Andy Nyman … Howard
• Ewen Bremner … Justin
• Daisy Donovan … Martha
• Alan Tudyk … Simon Smith
• Jane Asher … Sandra
• Kris Marshall … Troy
• Rupert Graves … Robert

You never quite know what to hope for when you go to see a so-called black comedy/farce. I mean, the trailers might give you an idea of some of better moments, but you just don’t know whether the whole thing will work. Especially when the setting for the “hilarious hijinks” is a funeral. Happily, Death at a Funeral does indeed work.

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Dir & Writ: Noah Baumbach

• Jeff Daniels - Bernard Berkman
• Laura Linney - Joan Berkman
• Jesse Eisenberg - Walt Berkman
• Owen Kline - Frank Berkman
• Anna Paquin - Lili
• William Baldwin - Ivan

A film about divorce set in the 80’s doesn’t really sound all that appealing, does it? Maybe not, but this is still a film worth seeing

I’m not sure how much of this is based on truth, but it seems that quite a bit of this film is based on Baumbach’s parent’s divorce, and there is a very strong sense of truth and honesty running through this film. And is quite a sad film, dealing as it does with the breakdown of a marraige, but at the same time it has some great humour.

It is the characters and acting that make this such a good film. Bernard is one of those overly academic types that has to analyse everything to death. Who is so sure of his own opinions that he isn’t happy until everyone else shares them. He has been a succesful author, but his most recent works haven’t been published. Joan, on the other hand, is an up-and-coming author, her work is excerpted in the New Yorker. Both husband and wife come across as caring, but somewhat distant parents to their two sons. It is almost as though they treat them too much as adults. Bernard in particular is guilty of this with Walt. Even more so after he leaves the family home and moves across the park.

But despite the excellence of Linney and Daniels, this film would be nothing if the two actors playing the sons didn’t deliver. And deliver they do.

Walt over identifies with his father. He worships him and takes all his opinions on board as though they were his own. He doesn’t even bother to read the books he recommends to a girlfriend, he so trusts his father’s opinion. In a way he is the perfect embodiment of the self-obsessed teenager, believing he is capable of greatness, and thinking he is so much better than others.

Frank seems hardest hit by the divorce. The youngest in the family he doesn’t share as many interests with his father. A fact emphasised when Frank tells Bernard that he is a philistine. That he wants to be a philistine. But he isn’t coping with the divorce to well, especially after being left behind by his father he ends up spending the weekend alone. He turns to drink and masturbation.

This isn’t a film everyone will enjoy, but I found it very entertaining, and moving in a non-sentimental way. The Bernard character comes across as more of a bad guy than anyone else, but there isn’t really any judgement being passed on any of these characters. They’ve all done silly stupid things, because that is what life is about. This film is content to simply present them and their actions and let the viewer decide on the meaning.

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Dir & Writ: Scott Ryan
starring

• Scott Ryan - Ray Shoesmith
• Ben Walker - Tony Rickards
• Massimiliano Andrighetto - Max “Massimo” Totti
• Kane Mason - Benny
• [Nathaniel Lindsay - Edna

This is the story of Ray, who for the right money can make anyone disapear. Although it isn’t magic he uses, not unless you count a count as a wand. He is a hitman, working in Melbourne, and this documentary style film recounts a few of his jobs. The condition imposed on film-maker Max is that he won’t release the film until after Ray’s death.

It is a strange film, but very enjoyable. The style is used to allow Max to question Ray about his actions. To have an outsider looking in wondering can Ray tone down the violence, or how much would he want in order to eat his own shit. Did I forget to mention this is a comedy?

The focus of the film is all on Ray. The rest of the characters are just their to provide him with something to interact with. And Max, the cameraman is never shown un-pixelated on screen, to protect his identity from the police no doubt. And Scott Ryan gives an excellent performance as the almost charming hitman. His sense of timing is perfect and his delivery of the lines is spot-on. Of course he did write and dirct it, so he should know everything about this character, but it is still a wonderful role.

It is almost a buddy road movie, with Ray, Max and a possible target traveling across Australia to locate some money. There is a great discussion about Wayne Carey and whether sleeping with your vice-captain’s wife could ever be regarded as merely a mistake. Probably more likely to turn out to be a cult hit than a blockbuster, if yuo get the chance you should try to catch this film.

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ISBN: 0007157762
Author: Hilary Mantel
DDC: 823.914

Travelling: the dank oily days after Christmas. The motorway, its wastes looping London: the margin’s scrub-grass flaring orange in the lights, and the leaves of the poisoned shrubs striped yellow-green like a cantaloupe melon.

Alison is a medium, she travels around London passing on messages from those who have “passed”, or at least passing on some of the messages. Because the dead are just people afterall, and not all people are nice, or worth listening to. And then there is the fact that they can get confused and lose their memories after death. Or even forget who they were. And sometimes they are downright malicous.

Alison isn’t alone, she has her manager/assistant Colette, who is recently divorced and who in many ways, wants to believe, yet never really does.

A terrible childhood, abuse, murder, violence, neglect haunts Alison. She has to deal with the spirits as they try to pass on their messages, and their pettiness. And she has to deal with her spirit guide, Morris. He is about as far from the ideal guide as you can imagine. Foul mouthed, mean spirited and hostile, Alison wishes he’d move on, and stop her remembering her past.

“Fucking stuck-up cow” he said, as Colette went out. “White-faced fucking freak. She’s like a bloody ghoul. Where did you get her, gel, a churchyard?”

And when he starts bringing back friends things get much worse, because they are all men from Alison’s childhood. And childhood was not a good time for Alison, with her prostitute, neglectful, drugged mother:

and her mum says, so am I balck and white, am I stood in the fucking meadow, and if not, what leads you to believe I am a fucking cow?

I really enjoyed this book. It is a wonderful blend of light and dark, of horror and humour.

Colette was puzzled by the woman, who urned most of her statements into questions. It must be what they do in Surrey, she decided; they must have had it twinned with Australia

Never turning into farce, and at its heart it is about Alison, and her relationship with people. Colette being the main other in her life. Have to say though that I never warmed to Colette, she is very unsympathetic, and her thoughts on the overweight Alison can be very offputting. Not to mention her controlling temperment. Sometimes you wish that Al would just snap back, or refuse to go along with whatever diet Colette is forcing her to stick to.

Well worth picking up, I’m glad the cover of this book attracted my attention as I was browsing in the three for two section.

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