STAR TREK - 7/10 |
THE AVENGERS, CHARLIES ANGELS, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, THE DUKES OF HAZZARD, THE BRADY BUNCH... The more-or-less recent revamps of TV classics haven't given the audience any confidence in this years grea...
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 08:27:00 GMT |
KÆRLIGHED PÅ FILM ( JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY) - 6/10 |
European thrillers usually are nastier than American. This was
proven again and again, poignantly also by director Ole
Bornedal in reshooting his superb Danish thriller NATTEVAGTEN
(1994) in t...
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 04:53:00 GMT |
THE BOAT THAT ROCKED - 6+1/10 |
He's the king of British comedy: Richard Curtis, scribe of hits like FOUR WEDDINGS, NOTTING HILL, BRIDGET JONES, TV classics like BLACK ADDER, MR BEAN, SPITTING IMAGE, and writer/director of LOVE ACTU...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:47:00 GMT |
HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU - 6/10 |
A charming ensemble, a witty trailer - why not trying out a rom com again? HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU sails in the backwash of landmarks like ANNIE HALL, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY and LOVE ACTUALLY, witho...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:11:00 GMT |
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE - 8/10 |
Watching Marc Forster's THE KITE RUNNER explains how a well-fed European filmmaker can badly tell an aestheticly pleasing but condecending film about a third-world country. Watching SLUMDOG MILLIONAIR...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:36:00 GMT |
THE LOST WEEKEND - 6/10 |
Alright, it is maybe unjust to judge a film from 1945 under current aspects; maybe not. Many classics rather show today's cinema how it should be done. So I watched Billy Wilder's THE LOST WEEKEND for...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:46:00 GMT |
THE WRESTLER - 8/10 |
If you are in doubt what makes a great actor (probably after watching any prestigious Sean Penn flick), go see THE WRESTLER. Mickey Rourke recently proved to out-act everyone despite heavy make-up in ...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:11:00 GMT |
GRAN TORINO - 7/10 |
Sometimes you sit in your cinema armchair, and you know exactly what will happen in the film, even down to the dialogue. Mostly this is annoying, but GRAN TORINO is an exception.Imagine inspector Harr...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:25:00 GMT |
WATCHMEN - 6/10 |
Another comic book adaptation (although Alan Moore's work is fancily called picture novel). Director Zac Snyder stays true to his latest success, 300, and tries to bring a comic to the screen, stayin...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:57:00 GMT |
MORD IST MEIN GESCHÄFT, LIEBLING (MURDER'S MY BUSINESS, HONEY) - 5/10 |
Toni is a hitman (TV comic Rock Kavanian) who just topped off a lawyer who was about to hand over the first chapters of a mafia insider book to a publisher. Toni is good at his job, but is longing for...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:38:00 GMT |
