via BFI I first watched Brooklyn in April because it was Easter, you want to watch something light and heart-warming; it was also recommended by Duc from the blog 14 Shades of Grey. Normally, I would stay away from a movie deemed last year's "best love story", but I couldn't resist the 50's fashions and the fact that the protagonist is basically me. The trailer describes...
via Stuff Point In the last couple of years lots of big blockbuster movies came out that were set in space: Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian. I don't mean to be controversial, but as a fan of realistic sci-fi movies, I thought these movies were all flash and little substance. Even Interstellar, which I liked, was a bit hard to sit through. As this...
Vest from Ferris Bueller's Day Off via Max Goldberg There's something so ambiguous about collectibles. For the person who is buying them - the person who has seen the movie hundreds of times, memorized the lines and basically wished they could live in the movie - a collectible is a sensible purchase. For everybody else, it's a waste of money. And perhaps a...
*spoilers* I have a love and hate relationship with Woody Allen. So much so that I only watched Midnight in Paris because it was being played at my gym. The movie was so interesting that I ended up working out for much longer that I wanted to. Midnight in Paris is about a young Hollywood writer, Gil, who is inexplicably transported to 1920’s...
I’ll be honest: I’m not a big Clint Eastwood fan. I stay clear of any type of western, no matter how much they try to lure me by associating themselves with spaghetti. Growing up, I have a faint memory of watching a movie with Eastwood and either Johnny Deep or Christian Slater, can’t remember which. His last movies were simply painful to watch and too...
Shala from Life Between Films hosted a "London in Genres" blogathon, where several people recommended movies that are about or set in London. There's one movie for each genre and the full list has amazing recommendations. Here's mine, about the movie Witness for the Prosecution in the Classics genre: Witness for the Prosecution pays homage to two British institutions: London’s Central Criminal Courts,...
Maybe it’s a little soon to say this, but Babette’s Feast is the best movie I’ve seen this year. I don’t want to over sell it, but there’s a reason most people never heard of this movie. It’s a Danish film with little action and a powerful message that goes directly against everything modern man believes and pursues. And yet… the photography is...
It took me forever to watch The Artist. I mean, a modern silent movie, with a plot screaming Singing in the Rain and a trailer that seems to give away the whole movie? I had zero expectations when I finally watched it and was utterly amazed. The movie is about George Valentin, a silent movie star who gets fired when the studios start...
For the love of Thomas Hardy They say script writers should always assume their audiences are twelve year old. That's awful but at least it wouldn't pose too much of a problem for kid movies, right? It actually does. There are not a lot of intelligent kid movies out there. I know a lot of people love Shrek, for example, but I just don’t...
That's it, I've had it with lame movies. You know you've reached a cinematic rock bottom when you're watching What Women Want just because, hey, Mel Gibson is in it. So now I'm focusing on classics, because you can't go wrong with them. And one of my favorite classic actors is James Stewart. I discovered he made over 90 movies and I've only...
The classy, not-creepy predecessor of Black Swan. I watched The Red Shoes a couple of years ago when I was really into ballet. I wonder how many guys who hate ballet watched it only because Martin Scorsese vouches for it. This 1948 classic follows the career of a promising young ballerina, Victoria Page. She entered the most prestigious company in the world under the direction...
