Movie Reviews
THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD Posts First Official Trailer
Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, Joshua Marston‘s follow-up to Maria Full of Grace (2004) lacks his debut feature’s sense of momentum and urgency. It arrives in theaters February 24th, and now a new trailer has arrived.
A teenage brother and sister in rural Albania are forced to deal with the effects after a small disagreement between two Albanian families grows to full-blown hostility and their father kills another man; the younger sister is forced to leave school and take over their father’s bread delivery business, while the brother hides out in fear of a revenge killing.
Marston, bringing an outsider’s eye to the terrain, packs the film with intriguing observations about machismo, gender roles, customs, and technology.
Quentin Tarantino’s Best of List for 2011
Quentin Tarantino, well known for combining styles from his favorite genres into brand new mash-ups has released his own best of list for 2011 and it’s about as odd as you might expect.
Since Tarantino once said that he stole from every movie ever made I guess he will be using them at some point in the future, maybe already in his upcoming Django Unchained southern project.
Hanna Review
Currently, we’re in the throes of a Hollywood obsession to bring fairy tales to the big screen. It’s a fad that’s years away from peaking, leaving the sneaky triumph of “Hanna” all the more bewitching.
It’s not exactly “Snow White” or “Alice in Wonderland,” but a weird, swirling amalgamation of the Grimm Brothers’ catalog, sharpened to Ginsu standards by the Euro sensibilities of director Joe Wright. Think of a fantastical storybook odyssey crossed with “The Bourne Identity,” and you’ll have a slightly accurate read of the moviegoing pleasures of this surreal, neck-snapping revenge escapade…read more [DrarkHorizons]
Sucker Punch Review
Sucker Punch is a wild and wonderful epic action fantasy brimming with shoot-outs, special effects and a seriously sexy group of lead actresses in snug costumes fighting their way through a plethora of enemies.
It’s a stylish comic-book style romp that revels in energy and sexuality.
Some will dismiss it as “style over content” and focus on the sexiness of the leads, but they won’t be able to deny the visual drive of Sucker Punch.
Director Zack Snyder is a master of comic-book style action movies driven by stunning special effects…read more [mirror.co.uk]
This movie is career suicide. Zack Snyder is still one of the most visually arresting filmmakers out there, but no one in a million years is ever going to give him carte blanche again. The film is an embarrassment, a black eye on entertainment that will become the unwilling example of what happens when geeks are allowed to do whatever they want without supervision. It is a film I wish I had seen at home, if only so I could yell at the screen all the obscenities that sprung to mind as I endured minute after ridiculous minute. I’ve never walked out of a movie – but this one really tried my patience. I beat it, but I don’t feel that I in any way won…read more [Ain't It Cool]
Paul Review
Paul comes from the team that brought us Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
Or most of the team: Writer-stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are still aboard, but director Edgar Wright has been replaced by Greg Mottola. And that substitution makes all the difference.
Not that Mottola doesn’t know his way around a joke: He proved that he did with Superbad and Adventureland. But he lacks the slightly nastier edge that Wright brought to the work. Watching Paul makes you wonder whether Wright wasn’t the one who kicked those films up the notch needed to give them their bite…read more [Huffington Post]
Rango Review
Opening Friday March 4 Rango is Industrial Light and Magic’s first fully animated movie . Written by John Logan, directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Johnny Depp.
Like The Fantastic Mr Fox, “Rango” is helmed by a cineaste Gore Verbinski who has worked in live actions, and it takes advantage from his heightened awareness of visual responses to the piece –Verbinski assisted on True Grit’s DP Roger Deakins as a visual consultant, and it shows.
Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones Terrific in The Company Men
Writer-director John Wells‘ The Company Men shows what happens to workers after the Gordon Gekkos (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps), of the world are given carte blanche to make whatever changes they want together with corrupted liberal politicians.
And what does happen? Unemployment runs out of control. The entrepreneurial spirit is crushed. Jobs are exported. All to benefit a precious belong few of the rich.
“The Company Men” is fictional but it plays like a document drama. It is truthful. It is the brutal reality about how American society — and, by economic influence, Canadian society too — has suffered under this system. However, the film tells the saga inside a specific universe that draws deep inside. You can make your own assumption.
20 Famous Film Star Dogs
Hollywood isn’t just a man’s world but a dogs’ heaven too. Well, everybody knows that All Dogs Go to Heaven (Animated, 1989), especially those 20 famous film stars. Innumerable famous dogs move us to laughter and tears in their lovely acting. In a sense dogs bring a special taste to films and illogical howling, yapping and barking that we somehow always seem to perceive and recognize. Many movies with dogs starring in them showed us how they are clever, generous and faithful buddies Lets not fail to recognize their talented way of keeping us all entertained by remembering who are the 20 famous film Star Dogs. All in all, hard work, persistence and a passion for craft definitely deserves it.
Mind-Blowing Review
I would like to show a mind-blowing point of view on films it might interest you as well. If your opinion on psychoanalysis is not the issue and you can’t get such perspective on movies, let’s just amuse yourself.
Due to above mentioned perspective almost every movie has some kind of subtext. And as a result, these half-coded messages turn up in movies you’d never expect.
Spider-Man: Peter Parker‘s Man Juice
You think you’re watching superhero movie about a shy teenager named Peter Parker who discovers that a genetically engineered spider bite has given him superpowers. But this could easily be modified that Spider-Man really is all about semen, or puberty. We tend to find Spider-Man easier to identify with than other superheroes. He’s not an alien, like Superman, or the son of a major Norse god, like Thor. But that’s not all we have in common with Peter Parker: His superhero birth-trauma story is one with which we’re all painfully familiar — puberty.
