30 January 2011
Cast: Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
Script: Andrés Heinz, John McLaughlin, Mark Heyman
Genre: drama
Setting: New York
9 Stars
3 Comments
Nina Sayers is a ballerina in the New York Ballet. She lives with her mother, and her whole live revolves around dancing. There is a new production starting and Nina is determined to get a starring role in Swan Lake. … Continue reading
8 January 2008
Cast: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Garret Dillahunt, Jeremy Renner, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider, Sam Rockwell, Sam Shepard
Script: Andrew Dominik
Genre: biopic, western
Setting: 1880s, C19th
10 Stars
11 Comments
I loved this film. I loved everything about it. The acting was brilliant. The way the story unfolded. The narration. The casting. The scenery. The cinematography. The soundtrack. Everything was just great. Best film I’ve seen this year. Which’d be … Continue reading
29 July 2007
Cast: Eleanor Bron, Errol Sitahal, Kelsey Mulrooney, Liam Cunningham, Liesel Matthews, Vanessa Lee Chester
Script: Elizabeth Chandler, Richard LaGravenese
Genre: drama
Setting: 1910s, USA
9 Stars
4 Comments
based on book by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Sara Crewe lives a spoiled life in India with a devoted, doting father, until World War I intervenes, and he enlists, sending Sara off to boarding school in New York to keep her safe. There she must adjust, whereas before she had free rein to do as she pleased, now she must submit to rules and regulations that she doesn’t understand. And, most difficult for her, she must keep her imagination in check. But Sara isn’t a selfish, “poor little rich girl”, she is bright and kind, and soon makes friends with most of the other girls, from those in her class to the scullery maid. She is also the only one who can really get through to Lottie as they have both lost their mothers.
18 January 2007
Cast: Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton, Will Smith
Script: Steve Conrad
Genre: drama
4 Stars
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At the start of the film Linda is pulling double shifts while Chris is out selling bone density machines, struggling to make ends meet and support their young son Christopher. Things are not going well, the bone density machine isn’t … Continue reading
4 January 2006
Cast: Alex Ferns, Benno Fürmann, Daniel Bruhn, Diane Kruger, Gary Lewis, Guillaume Canet, Ian Richardson, Natalie Dessay, Rolando Villiazon, Steven Robertson
Script: Christian Carion
Genre: drama, war
Setting: 1910s, Europe
9 Stars
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Before the opening credits rolled on this film I had been thinking that I really wasn’t in th emood for seeing a foreign film that I’d have to read. And then some bint knocked over my popcorn so I wasn’t … Continue reading
22 October 2005
Cast: Emily Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Paul Whitehouse, Tracey Ullman
Script: Caroline Thompson, John August, Pamela Pettler
Genre: animation, romance, sff
8 Stars
2 Comments
Poor old Victor just can’t get his through his wedding rehearsal, can’t remember his lines, bumps into things, sets the bride’s mother on fire. It is all enough to send anyone running for the woods. But Victor has fallen in … Continue reading
26 September 2005
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Keira Knightley, Matthew McFadyen
Script: Deborah Moggach
Genre: historical fiction, romance
Setting: C19th, Hertfordshire
2 Stars
3 Comments
Sometimes directors really make you think, make you stop and consider their work, make you want to never ever see anything in the cinema ever again because they have killed any desire you might have felt for moving pictures. Wright … Continue reading
18 September 2005
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rutger Hauer
Script: Edward Khmara
Genre: romance, sff
Setting: C12th, Europe - middle ages
9 Stars
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I’ve wanted to buy this film on dvd for a long time now, but kept putting it off because it is a pretty vanilla dvd release. Menus are not a special feature. Still better late than never I suppose. For … Continue reading
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
25 January 2005
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And the nominations are: Best picture The Aviator Finding Neverland Million Dollar Baby Ray Sideways – I’m guessing The Aviator will win this, the only other one I’ve seen is Finding Neverland, which was good, but the money is still … Continue reading