Archive for the ‘Reviews of movies’ Category
Playing By Heart
{4.5/5} “Talking about love is like dancing about architecture.” Paul and Hannah have been married a long time. Paul just found out he has a brain tumour — he doesn’t want to talk about it, and there are other things he doesn’t want to talk about either. Joan and Keenan just met but they like […]
The Ghost Writer
{4.5/5} “Forty thousand years of human language, and there’s no word to describe our relationship. It was doomed. ” A writer is hired for a lot of money to do some work on the memoirs of Adam Lang, former Prime Minister of Britain. The previous writer who was working on it mysteriously drowned. The writer […]
Never Let Me Go
{4.5/5} “It had never occurred to me that our lives, so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I’d known, maybe I’d have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart. ” Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth attend a boarding school that seems almost normal. There are a few strange […]
Night at the Museum: Battle of Smithsonian
{3/5} “‘What, did they run out of U’s on your name plate?’ ”I dunno, did they run out of jokes at the Interesting Joke Store that you shop at?” A few years ago Larry was a night guard at a museum in New York when a strange thing happened — all the exhibits came to […]
Looper
{5/5} “‘I’m going to France.’ ‘I’m from the future. Go to China.’” Time travel hasn’t been invented yet but it will be in 30 years. In the future a criminal organization uses time travel to dispose of people they want killed — they hire loopers in the current time to kill the people that show […]
Melancholia
{3.5/5} “The way I see it, you’re now short of a boss and a husband. Could I, in all humility, offer my services? You have the ideas. I have the head for business. We could be the perfect couple.” Justine has just been married. On the way to the reception the limousine gets stuck. At […]
Trouble with the Curve
{4.5/5} “It must be so rewarding being one of your close friends.” Gus is an aging baseball scout who’s having vision problems. Mickey, his daughter, is a lawyer who is up for partner. The two of them don’t talk very much. Gus is going to need some help if he’s going to check out a […]
Picnic at Hanging Rock
{4/5} “People don’t sit on cold steps in the dark unless they’re weak in the head.” It’s 1900 in Australia — on Valentine’s Day students from an all-girls school go for a day trip to a place called Hanging Rock. Four of them don’t come back — three students and one teacher. No one knows […]
Movies I really don’t want you to see
There are 2 movies I really don’t want you to see for the same reason — because they are unfunny adaptations of funny source material. Of course, there are people who disagree with me — who like these movies — but if you trust my judgement please avoid them. {2/5} The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the […]
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury, etc.
There have been three short films (16 to 22 minutes) that are sequels to How to Train Your Dragon, a movie I loved. The first appeared on the DVD with the original movie in 2010, and the other two appeared on their own DVD in 2011. A TV show, Dragons: Riders of Berk, has just […]