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DVD review | Moonrise Kingdom – Take a trip to Wes Anderson’s quirky island idyll
Wes Anderson, maker of a string of offbeat movies, including Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and Fantastic Mr Fox, has come up with another quirky comedy that couldn’t have been made by anyone else. Set in the summer of 1965 on … Continue reading
DVD review | This Must Be the Place – On the road with Sean Penn’s Nazi-hunting Goth rocker
Funnier on screen than he’s been in any part since permanently stoned surfer dude Jeff Spicoli in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridegmont High, Sean Penn is terrific in the lead role of Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s distinctly offbeat This Must … Continue reading
Posted in Blu-ray Releases, DVD Releases, DVD Reviews
Tagged Cheyenne, David Byrne, Dublin, Fast Times at Ridegmont High, Frances McDormand, Harry Dean Stanton, Holocaust, Jeff Spcioli, life is beautiful, Paolo Sorrentino, roberto benigni, Sean Penn, Talking Heads, This Must Be the Place
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Film review | Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson’s surprisingly heartfelt hymn to young love
Wes Anderson’s 1996 debut film, offbeat crime comedy Bottle Rocket, thoroughly charmed me, and his second, the even more idiosyncratic Rushmore, won me over completely. More recently, though, I’ve been blowing hot and cold over his work, finding The Darjeeling … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Releases, Reviews, The Best View
Tagged Benjamin Britten, Bill Murray, Bottle Rocket, Bruce Willis, Darjeeling Limited, Edward Norton, Fantastic Mr Fox, Frances McDormand, Françoise Hardy, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Noye's Fludde, Rushmore, Wes Anderson, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
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Film review | This Must Be the Place – Sean Penn’s retired Goth rocker goes on a Nazi-hunting road trip
Funnier on screen than he’s been in any part since permanently stoned surfer dude Jeff Spicoli in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridegmont High, Sean Penn is terrific in the lead role of Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s distinctly offbeat This Must … Continue reading
DVD review | Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Eye-popping robot action rescues an eye-watering plot
Transformers: Dark of the Moon, third in the blockbuster series inspired by the shape-changing toys, is everything you’d expect – and more. The explosions are bigger, the special effects more spectacular – and Shia LaBeouf even more irritating as a … Continue reading
Film review | Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Whiny Shia drowned out by awesome robot smackdowns
Transformer: Dark of the Moon, the third sci-fi blockbuster inspired by the shape-changing toys, is here and it’s everything you’d expect – and more. The explosions are bigger, the special effects more spectacular – and Shia LaBeouf is even more … Continue reading
Couch Potato Pickings | Transsiberian, and some other snow-set movies
No, these are not some personal snaps of mine from the past few weeks. These are images from the gripping thriller Transsiberian. It’s the tale of an American couple (Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer) who are travelling on the Trans-Siberian … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged 30 Days of Night, Ben Kingsley, Bill Murray, charlie and the chocolate factory, Eduardo Noriega, Emily Mortimer, Fargo, Frances McDormand, Groundhog Day, Jack Nicholson, Kate Mara, Let the Right One In, March of the Penguins, the chronicles of narnia: the lion the witch and the wa, The Day After Tomorrow, The Shining, Trans-Siberian Express, Transsiberian, Woody Harrelson
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – if you could too, what day would you choose to live in?
Couch Potato Pickings This movie tells the entertaining tale of an unemployed governess who plunges into the dizzying world of 1939 London high society after bluffing her way into a job as social secretary to a giddy American singer and … Continue reading
Out on DVD | Burn After Reading
When a computer disc containing the memoirs of a disgruntled CIA analyst falls into the hands of a pair of dim gym workers, the pair reckon they can take advantage of this unexpected windfall, but their half-baked scheme quickly … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading, CIA, Coen Brothers, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton
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