Movies & TV – Page 35

Cape Fear – Film Review

September 24, 2016December 21, 2023yggdrasille

Another one on my list of Scorsese-movies-to-watch, Cape Fear is a gloriously pulpy thriller about a defense attorney, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), who along with his family is threatened by a man from his past.

Brick – Film Review

September 21, 2016March 21, 2019yggdrasille

brick_pic2 I think I would have enjoyed this movie much more if the DVD I watched had subtitles. It’s a strange and rather original hybrid of a highschool film and the hardboiled detective noir in the style of Dashiell Hammett, and so everyone speaks in this highly stylized slang I just couldn’t tune into.

Lady Chatterley – Film Review

September 18, 2016June 13, 2024yggdrasille

Another movie I missed out on in the cinemas despite the best intentions, Lady Chatterley is a French adaptation of an earlier version of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a once-notorious novel by D. H. Lawrence.

Good Bye Lenin! – Film Review

September 16, 2016December 5, 2025yggdrasille

Charming, moving and funny German film set in East Berlin around the time of Germany’s re-unification in 1989. Even if it wasn’t any good, you’d still have to admire the original premise.

Melancholia – Film Review

September 8, 2016October 19, 2017yggdrasille

melancholia_409_photo_by_christian_geisnaes_large I suffer from motion sickness and it’s a big compliment to the movie that I stuck with it till the end despite the nausea-inducing hand-held camerawork. It was like a film equivalent of driving down a winding mountain road – you get beautiful views but feel rather queasy by the end of it all. I coped by glancing away from the screen occasionally and silently praised the cameraman whenever he managed to hold the shot.

Delicatessen – Film Review

September 6, 2016May 4, 2021yggdrasille

A delightfully zany French movie about love, dystopia… and cannibalism. It’s directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who later made Amélie, so I kinda knew what to expect – beautifully textured and whimsical visuals, quirky and imaginative little details, eccentric characters – but even so this movie is quite out there.

Ghost World – Film Review

September 3, 2016January 29, 2023yggdrasille

A quirky, affectionate, funny and poignant look at the outsiders and margin-dwellers, and easily one of the best movies about teenagers and coming-of-age.

The Grey – Film Review

September 2, 2016October 19, 2017yggdrasille

the-grey I’m really glad that I caught up on this movie, which I actually had wanted to see at the time of its theatrical release, but never got around to. The back of the DVD describes it as “a gripping man-versus-nature action thriller”, and it does succeed on that front, but it also turned out to be much more thoughtful and philosophical than Liam Neeson vs. Wolves.

The Notebook – Film Review

August 29, 2016April 19, 2022yggdrasille

the-notebook-movie-poster This movie is supposed to be a modern holy grail of chick flicks, so I watched it because I love me a good romance. I’m sorry to say that it left me cold – I didn’t hate it but nothing about it tugged on my heart-strings. Nope, not even the Alzheimer’s storyline.

Raging Bull – Film Review

August 27, 2016July 5, 2018yggdrasille

hero_EB19980510REVIEWS08401010354AR I went to the Martin Scorsese exhibition at ACMI last weekend, which inspired me to catch up on his filmography, starting with the movie often cited as his finest.