http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:38:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_2189" align="alignnone" width="157" caption="great body - but the tail's gotta go"][/caption] Film, performance, screenplay, art Technical, Effects, Art direction Avatar - James Cameron Avatar sucks: the bambification of an aboriginal narrative. A sentimentalised pastiche of a Native American stereotype. The Na’vi sound like Hollywindians and worship an Earth-mother who looks like a fibre-optic ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2010/02/hurt-locker-bambification-of-aboriginal-narrative/ [caption id="attachment_2184" align="alignnone" width="250" caption="Ladies Pavilion Central Park New York"][/caption] New York Wedding Ten perfect days brilliant sunshine New York glittering implacably in December cold as dawn’s hope etches a patina of gold on giant barkless trees Who will die today what new joy is born my once tiny fragment of fragile life is woman now it seems and leads me through the magic city of my ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2009/12/new-york-wedding/ [caption id="attachment_2172" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="breathtaking"][/caption] Strictly Come Dancing 7 - 16th October 2009 At last – a little bit of magic. Like two proud, elegant birds of prey locked in a mating dance, Vincent and Flavia captivated the eye and lifted the spirit with their Waltz Tango – which is a new ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2009/10/strictly-a-little-bit-of-magic-the-waltz-tango/ [caption id="attachment_2168" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Night out at the Queen Vic darlin'?"][/caption] Strictly Game Dancing 6 - BBC Oct 11th 2009 Tired: me or the format? Not sure. A week to rest more on the pleasure in the company of those you watch it with than the show itself. Chris minced; Jo/Joe ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2009/10/strcitly-game-dancing-6-bbc-and-the-semantic-tap-dance/ Letter - Published London Times - Tuesday October 6th 2009 Electoral Reform Vote It is hard to see in the Party Conferences so far any evidence that Party Politicians have remotely registered the depth of contempt and anger generated by their cynical, wholesale abuse of their expenses. After much hand-wringing and a ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2009/10/letter-published-london-times-tuesday-6th-october-2009/ [caption id="attachment_2160" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="skip the light fandango - seasick across the floor"][/caption] Strictly Come Dancing 5 - BBC 3rd October Strictly and the Wizard of Woz. Alesha Dixon to Joe Calzhage: “I’m impressed by how strong you woz for Kris”. There is no way an intelligent, accomplished, successful woman, and Alesha ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2009/10/strictly-meets-the-wizard-of-woz/ [caption id="attachment_2157" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Only connect"][/caption] The Soloist - Joe Wright Why do we go to the movies? I guess for as many different reasons as there are different kinds of films: to be entertained, informed, moved; to be made to laugh or cry, or exceptionally, both at the same time; or ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2009/10/music-unites-what-words-divide/ [caption id="attachment_2151" align="alignnone" width="245" caption="Sorry Mr. Kappor we only leant on it"][/caption] Strictly Come Dancing 3/4:  25th-26th September A weekend of small pleasures on Strictly: Alesha’s unpompous likeability proceeds neck and neck with the bland inanity of her judicial comments such as - “I like the way you move across the floor”; ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2009/09/strictly-come-dancing-3-and-4-dunwoody-done/ [caption id="attachment_2148" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The life and times of an Essex girl"][/caption] Fish Tank - Andrea Arnold I’m bemused, bewildered and to be honest, bloody angry. What is the widespread acclaim and exaggerated praise for this movie all about? OK, I’m sorry that feisty, attractive 15 year-old Mia’s mother is a dysfunctional, ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2009/09/essex-girl-struggles-to-make-good/ District 9 – Neill Blomkamp The science is risible: the fiction banal. District 9 is a good B movie with pretensions; and like all good B movies, it rattles along at a pace fast enough for you to almost forgive the cheap n’ cheerful costumes, make-up, special effects and frequently clunky ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2009/09/dawn-of-the-forlorn-prawn/