Picoreview: The Grand Seduction: Charming! The Grand Seduction is sort of Doc Hollywood meets The Full Monty (in terms of small town whose main source of employment has dried up, not in terms of stripping :)), with a bit of Waking Ned Devine thrown in. It stars Brendan Gleeson, who is always wonderful, and Taylor Kitsch, who appears to be trying to rebuild a career after his meteoric rise culminated in two gigantic box office flops. (I *like* Kitsch, and in fact liked both John Carter and Battleship, so I’m…
Category: Movies
10 movies
I’ve been working on this list for a while, and in the past few days an actual meme of it seems to have popped up on Facebook, so I don’t know, maybe it’s in the gestalt. It was surprisingly difficult to come up with the list. Ten movies I will watch over and over again, in no particular order: 1. While You Were Sleeping 2. The Cutting Edge 3. The Replacement Killers 4. The Hunt for Red October 5. A Knight’s Tale 6. Sliding Doors 7. Maverick 8. Robin Hood…
Picoreview: Maleficent
Picoreview: Maleficent: a worthy re-telling of (specifically Disney’s) Sleeping Beauty, and one that caused me to leave the theatre thinking “Victors write the histories.” It’s not perfect. There’s a voiceover that I think would have been better done as in-story storytelling instead, but to have done that successfully I think the movie would have needed a PG13/12A rating rather than the PG it got. And–this is something I will almost never say–I thought it *should* have been a PG13 movie. That was never going to happen, though, because adults aren’t…
Picoreview: Days of Future Past
Picoreview: Days of Future Past: YAY There was not a moment of completely suspended disbelief the way Nightcrawler’s opening scene in X2 took me in, but that was a thoroughly enjoyable film and had a moment *almost* that good. I want to see it again! Spoilers right through the end of the movie behind the cut, so don’t click through if you don’t wanna know. :)
Picoreview: Escape Plan
Picoreview: Escape Plan: Surprisingly…I’m not sure ‘good’ is the right word, but surprisingly entertaining. I really didn’t know what to expect from a Schwarzenegger/Stallone movie, but I pretty well expected it to be awful. Instead it was solidly entertaining, and I gotta admit, Schwarzenegger just *oozed* charisma, to the point that a couple of times I was just kinda like “…*damn*, mister!” Stallone not so much, although he and Arnie played off each other nicely. There are–well, there was one surprise in the plot, rather than no surprises, which was…