I watched Next Three Days last night and enjoyed it. Russel Crowe performed very well and it was a good thriller movie. 7/10
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I watched Next Three Days last night and enjoyed it. Russel Crowe performed very well and it was a good thriller movie. 7/10
Baby Face Nelson (1957)
During the 1950s, film studios were beginning to feel the onslaught of television and among the methods with which they tried to compete was recourse to films based on the gangster movies of the 1930s: a formula that had been very successful at the box office. Baby Face Nelson is a typical example starring the diminutive Mickey Rooney as a psychopathic gang leader wanted for murder and a series of bank robberies. Directed by Don Siegel of 'Invasion of the Bodysnatchers' fame, this film is essentially nonsensical rubbish that not only takes a liberty with the actual events but completely rewrites them and adds an impossibly melodramatic ending. The background jazz music has nothing to do with 1933 when the film is set but would fit well into a 1940s gangland movie.
http://youtu.be/KDt0JpZ-qc0
No Down Payment (1957)
This curious piece of social commentary was directed by Martin Ritt, known for his 'un-American activities' during the McCarthy era. It's therefore not surprising that this story concerns cracks in the American dream as a young couple get a mortgage on a new house in a model middle class area and find that beneath the surface of the post WWII boom there's a deal of discontent. Ritt is too good a director to go over the top about the human weaknesses displayed in the film and there is none of the hand-wringing and self-disgust that was the hallmark of the 'crazy-mixed-up-kid' scenario that was a contemporary Hollywood theme. So it's aimed at adults rather than teenagers and is effective in its measured and believable handling of the story.
http://youtu.be/jejGeZ_BiP4
8/10
P. J. Hogan's Mental: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1655416/
I think the message was that some people are more mental than others. The way the theme song to the Sound of Music was performed at the beginning convinced me they were all delightfully mental.
Score: 9/10 -- ah, why not? 10/10
I watched Mama with my cousins and didn't enjoy it. 4/10
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Trance
I watched Epic last night. 7/10
Balupu.......
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Joseph Cotten leads in this Hitchcock suspense story as a killer of rich widows who escapes police surveillance by returning to his long lost family in a small Californian town. The family are overjoyed to welcome him back, completely unaware that he is wanted for three murders on the other side of the country.
Gradually, however, certain traces of his murderous character come to light when detectives arrive in town having him marked down as a suspect. The problem with the film is that it loses the 'did he, didn't he' aspect early on in the film so that we know that he's the killer and not another man, also being hunted elsewhere as a possible suspect. The acting is, as one might expect from Hitchcock, first rate and the film gets 8/10.
http://youtu.be/KShiFuerkCk
Spring Breakers, the new Harmony Korine movie.
3.9/5 stars.
I watched Dorian Gray and it really disappointed me. Movie ruined the original story and the characters. 4/10
Saw Monster University with my daughters (8 and 10). Not bad, but we were all a little disappointed that it was a so short on incipient nihilism.
Was it the 8 or 10-year-old who said that? And how did the other respond?Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Celeste and Jesse Forever 8/10 I really like Rashida Jones. A sweet and low-key indie that explores the dissolution of a young woman's first important relationship and her coming to terms with it's loss.
Fruitvale Station 10/10 The last day in the life of a young man.