Susan Hated Literature

Dir: Isabel Coixet
Writ: Nicholas Meyer based on book by Philip Roth

• Ben Kingsley … David Kepesh
• Penélope Cruz … Consuela Castillo
• Dennis Hopper … George O’Hearn
• Peter Sarsgaard … Kenneth Kepesh

IMDb ; OtherReviews

David Kepesh, sometime narrator of this film, is an ageing lecturer. Or an ageing Tom Cat, going from woman to woman in order to maintain his independence. And then Consuela comes to his class.

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• Peter Sarsgaard - Troy
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• Lucas Black - Kruger

Jarhead is the story of one young Marine as he goes through training and then into Iraq during the early 90’s. It isn’t an overtly political film, although Kruger has a few interesting, if throwaway comments to make. It is a personal view of the war, and how war changes people/

As a film I don’t think that this was anything special. It was entertaining enough, but both Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard are better than the film. The relationship between the pair is really what is at the heart of the film, the rest is simply the set-up.

And this is fairly understandable, considering that the film is based on the memoirs of Swofford. Of course as a film about war, and Iraq it does have a political message, if you want to see one. If you don’t you can ignore all that.

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• Kate Hudson …. Caroline Ellis
• Gena Rowlands …. Violet Devereaux
• John Hurt …. Ben Devereaux
• Peter Sarsgaard …. Luke

This is supposed to be a horror film, but the only thing horrifing is how bad the film is.

Set in the South of America, The Skeleton Key tells the story of Caroline, a hospice care nurse who ends up taking care of a stroke patient in his old, crumbling house. But she has issues, her father died when they weren’t talking and she regrets not being there for him.

She moves into the Devereaux house, but soon begins to hear strange noises and wonders hat exactly caused Ben’s stroke. And did his wife Violet have anything to do with it? And could she spend more time wandering around in virtually no clothes?

Talk about your predictable set up.
And there is the fact that there is this skeleton key, but it really isn’t an issue at all. In the opening few scenes we learn what it is, what it does and it doesn’t have any other role. Apart from being a key. Why call the film after it?

Anyways, there is a load of backstory about the previous owners, and the hanging of a black servant husband and wife. And voodoo, well hoodoo really, but still. And brick dust to keep out your enemies

And blah blah blah, a load of rubbish. You are never scared. You don’t really care what is going on, and although the ending is a little interesting it is too late to help the film.

Best thing about it; Peter Sarsgaard, but he’s only in it for a short while.

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Hola peoples, how was everyone’s christmas, I’m just back up in Dublin from Sligeach, had a very nice time, we even had snow so we did. Not on christmas day itself, but yesterday. I’ll stick a few photos on flickr later on.

I really should be unpacking, but I flicked on the telly when I came in and The Man In The Iron Mask was on. Such a terrible terrible film. That writing, tut tut tut. This is the 1998 version, with Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne and Leonardo DiCaprio. Honestly, is this one of the worst films ever made? That Randall Wallace boy^[1] sure did write/direct some stinker, but at the same time, if you ignore the scenes with DiCaprio, and the crap storyline and just watch the auld lads having a laugh playing with swords, then it is worth a watch.

Plus, it has yer man in it, who was in Garden State, and both NM and I said that he sounded very like John Malkovich. Who did Peter Sarsgaard play here? Raoul, John Malkovich’s son.

Anyways, I’m off to play catch up on other blogs out there.

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