MINI British Film Festival – Old Boys Movie Review
The girl in question is Agnes (Pauline Etienne), the headstrong daughter of the school’s new French teacher played by Denis Ménochet (Inglourious Basterds). As the budding romance between Agnes and Winchester progresses, it soon runs off the rails. From this point on things lunge towards the slap stick before it finishes with serious intent.
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The film successfully mixes humour with a number of worthwhile life lessons. It’s all filtered through that established ...
Brittany Runs a Marathon Movie Review
The film is based on the actual experiences of writer/director Paul Downs Colaizzo’s roommate, Brittany O’Neill, who ran the New York Marathon in 2014. This work succeeds in presenting how restrictive and narrow minded the expectations placed on females in our current society really are. It also doesn’t limit the throwing of shade just on male recipients.
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With a story that is equal parts touching and humorous, Bell brings a surprising level of complexity to ...
Ready or Not Movie Review
Little did she know the kind of family she was marrying into but she soon finds out on her wedding night. Observing a long held family tradition, they force her to play a game of hid and seek but this one comes with lethal consequences.
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What makes the film so much fun is that Grace even with being scared out of her mind never loses her wise cracking sense of humour. She also doesn’t change into a retribution killing machine and spoil all the incremental fun. The ...
After The Wedding Movie Review
The basic story revolves around an orphanage in India that is in danger of going broke and the actions needed to keep it afloat. These efforts are filtered through a number of family secrets and coloured by how people deal with grief and betrayal. Things unfold layer by layer by layer.
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The stats of the new version look promising with a cast that includes heavyweights like Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams and Billy Crudup. The location for securing the needed funding has ...
Pavarotti Movie Review
Hearing that amazing voice in full flight easily transcends one’s thoughts about the Opera. What an instrument he had! And through osmosis the melody of many of the songs used in the film will be familiar. Even if you know nothing about the over-the-top histrionics that are stock in trade of Opera, you can still feel the emotion.
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There are moments of high drama like The Three Tenors trying to outdo each other during their first appearance together and his famous perform...
Blinded By The Light Movie Review
How a Pakistani boy from Luton (located in the south east of England) becomes enamoured with the musical icon from New Jersey underlines the story. A story very loosely based on the life of Sarfraz Manzoor, a British journalist and broadcaster who wrote the book Greetings from Bury Park.
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Javed (Viveik Kalra) is a young man torn between two worlds. One side sees him as a dutiful son in a traditional Pakistani family while the other side sees him yearning to be more ...
Strange But True Movie Review
Told in a non-linear manner, as more details are revealed you experience a shifting of focus and the way you relate to the characters and their actions. There is darkness in the hearts of men that informs the actions of some.
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Film adaptations of novels, in this case the book of the same name by author John Searles, are always fraught with risk. Readers often form their own internal imagery and it’s almost always the more vivid version. This screen edition will most likely ...
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Movie Review
Returning to the role of the big evil is Angelina Jolie and it is one she comfortably inhabits. Her angular look and acting style suits the requirements perfectly. She is however given a run for her money in the evil stakes by Michelle Pfeiffer as Queen Ingrith. Pfeiffer dominates every scene she is in and her final dispensation is fitting and funny.
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The visuals throughout never look less than spectacular. The fairy land with its open and organic beauty sharply contrasts ...
Zombieland: Double Tap Movie Review
With Double Tap, you have the same core actors, the same director and two of the same screenplay writers but it just doesn’t consistently hit its targets. Adding new cast members doesn’t really enhance things either. Except for Rosario Dawson, whose new character is well written and gets to kick serious ass.
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The script also makes some strange choices in structure with two of the main cast members (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin) leaving the action after the second reel ...
Judy Movie Review
Signed to MGM Studios at a very young age, her life was almost completely controlled by its studio head, Louis B. Mayer. Never considered an out right beauty of the caliber of Liz Taylor or Ava Gardner, she was made to feel second class and was never allowed a childhood. Labour laws of the time for children actors in Hollywood were almost non-existent. They also gave her regular quantities of amphetamines to keep her thin and working. This helped to create addictions that lasted her entire ...
