Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet In Search Of A Midnight Kiss – Alex Holdridge The most powerful sex organ in the body it is said, rightly I think, lies not between the legs but between the ears. We have sex with a body – we make love to a person. To make contact with a person is to connect […]
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Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Dead Girl – Adam Coleman Howard It is unlikely that this one will find its necrophiliac way to your neck of the woods. I picked it up on spec as part of the Raindance Film Festival at the UGC Shaftesbury Ave. Aiming I think for the seriously weird, it gets seriously stuck at slightly […]
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Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Devil Wears Prada – David Frankel Guys beware: Devil inhabits planet Woman in galaxy Female. Take a judicious excess of your chosen substance of abuse, hitch a ride on the space shuttle to Mars and you will still not feel yourself in a more alien, strange, bewildering place. Even independent feminist women who […]
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Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet (dead duck) Hot Fuzz – Edgar Wright Absolutely………………………pointless. I know I’m running against the popular grain but this embarrassing rubbish does more harm than good to the British Film Industry which everyone claims to care about. Only a misguided loyalty wrongly applied to the poverty of imagination and sheer amateurishness of this cobbled together […]
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Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Die Hard 4.0 – Len Wiseman Downtown LA. Four American super-heroes meet for a drink. We will pass over Superman’s coke with a shudder. Even the non-diet doesn’t help. Phillip Marlowe’s bourbon, no ice, restores our faith in the misplaced connection between masculinity and booze. Harry Callaghan has something anonymous; guns not alcohol are […]
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Posted on September 1st, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet 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 […]
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Posted on August 31st, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Coeurs – Private Fears In Public Places – Alan Resnais A truly wise film. In every sense. Director Resnais almost 50 years on from Hiroshima Mon Amour assembles with masterly assurance all the cinematic arts to serve his narrative and emotional purpose: from award-winning Eric Gauthier’s evocative cinematography; through precise, unobtrusive editing; a subtle […]
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Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The World’s Fastest Indian – Roger Donaldson Spontaneous applause broke out in the cinema at the end of this movie. It’s been a long time since I heard that. And it was fully justified. This film is genuinely sentimental, warm-hearted, gentle, nostalgic, very funny and moving. Its dramatic climax is as tense and exciting […]
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Posted on August 24th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet 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 […]
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Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Hancock – Peter Berg I like Will Smith; you (probably) like Will Smith; all God’s children like Will Smith; why Will Smith even likes Will Smith – though for Will it may be less of a stretch sometimes than for us. To wit – Hancock. This movie doesn’t quite make you lose the will […]
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