Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Just Like Heaven – Director Mark Waters
(BBC Prize Review)
A great date movie. For romantics. If you go for light romantic comedies like Serendipity or even Sleepless in Seattle, you’ll love this one. A neat script (Peter Tolan – Analyze That; and Leslie Dixon – Mrs Doubtfire and Thomas Crown Affair) keeps the credulous storyline the [...]
Filed under: *BBC Prize Reviews*, 3 star, Comedy, General, Hollywood, Humorous, Mark Waters, Romance | No Comments »
Posted on September 11th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Sin City - Miller, Rodriguez, Tarantino
(BBC Prize Review)
Sin City is critic-proof. I guess that is the point. Any level on which you take it is uncool. Take it seriously and you’ve missed the cool joke. Treat it simply as a clever joke and you have missed the post-modern, movie-referential, ironic noir parody. Part of its [...]
Filed under: *BBC Prize Reviews*, Uncategorized, miller/rodriguez/tarantino | No Comments »
Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Last King Of Scotland _ Kevin Macdonald
(BBC Prize Review)
Something deeper than race, and more disturbing, lies at the heart of this chilling film. Masculinity, machismo, male dominance was the raw uncivilised force that drove the history and fuels this fictionalised account of Idi Amin’s Uganda.
Deeper because ethnicity and colour divides human beings into a [...]
Filed under: *BBC Prize Reviews*, 4 stars, Action, Drama, General, Hollywood, Kevin Macdonald, Oscar Winner, Philosophical, Political | No Comments »
Posted on September 6th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Elizabethtown – Director Cameron Crowe
(BBC Prize Review)
Elizabethtown is a great, great movie. In both senses. It will make you laugh, and cry, and will keep surprising you throughout. It fits no pigeonholes. A bit like life really. But it takes a while to adjust to its quirky, eccentricities of tone and narrative. There’s nothing wrong [...]
Filed under: *BBC Prize Reviews*, 5 stars, Cameron Crowe, Drama, General, Hollywood, Philosophical, Romance | No Comments »
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Jarhead - Sam Mendes
(BBC Prize-winning Review)
Paradox: we regard $80 million dollars (say) to recreate the horrors of war in a fictional setting as morally acceptable but would be outraged if the same scenes were shown from actual footage shot in reality. Worse in a way, we accept millions of dollars as a legitimate investment in [...]
Filed under: *BBC Prize Reviews*, 3 star, Action, Drama, General, Hollywood, Philosophical, Political, Sam Mendes, War | No Comments »
Posted on September 1st, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Click - Frank Coraci
(BBC Prize Review - contains ’spoilers’ if that’ possible for this one)
What’s funnier than a dog humping a soft toy duck? (While two 7/8 year-olds share the ‘fun’). Easy, according to director Coraci - two dogs humping the same duck. If that cracks you up, you just gotta go for Adam Sandler [...]
Filed under: *BBC Prize Reviews*, 1 star, Comedy, Frank Coraci, General, Hollywood, Humorous | No Comments »
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Atonement – Joe Wright
(BBC Prize Review)
Andre Previn to Eric Morecombe, “you’re playing all the wrong notes.” Eric Morecombe, lifting the Maestro up onto his toes by his DJ lapels, “no, I’m playing all the right notes……but not necessarily in the right order.” Joe Wright has gone one better in this extraordinarily bad film – he [...]
Filed under: *BBC Prize Reviews*, 2 star, Drama, General, Joe Wright, Romance, War | No Comments »
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
3-Iron – Director KIM Ki-Duk
(BBC Prize-winning review)
Of all the words a film critic needs least, ‘exquisite’ must be near the top of the list. Yet this is precisely the word for this hauntingly beautiful film which celebrates with a rare delicacy and sensitivity - love, life and our freedom just to be.
Deeply cinematic, it draws [...]
Filed under: *BBC Prize Reviews*, 5 stars, Drama, Europe/World cinema, General, Kim Ki-Duk, Philosophical, Romance | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 24th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Shane Black
(BBC Prize Review)
Pulp Fiction? Give me a break. This off the wall, can’t be pigeon-holed, literate little gem has far more style, wit, laughs and ironic self-mockery in its little finger (which the dog eats by the way). Lets hear it for Mary Gail Artz and Barbara Cohen – [...]
Filed under: *BBC Prize Reviews*, 4 stars, Action, Comedy, Detective, General, Hollywood, Humorous, Shane Black | No Comments »
Posted on August 17th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Flags of Our Fathers – Clint Eastwood
(BBC Prize Review)
This film has the resonance of a brick. There is more evocative imagery of the pathos and tragedy of war in the stills shown over the final credits than in the whole 132 minutes of film that precedes them. It is hard to believe that Eastwood [...]
Filed under: *BBC Prize Reviews*, 1 star, Action, Clint Eastwood, General, Hollywood, Musical, Philosophical, War | 4 Comments »
