2 stars** It’s unfortunate when you read and hear so many reviews of a film before you see it and gain a dissatisfied opinion before even reaching the drive-in. However, I do prefer my own opinion and the chance to view the delivery with my own my eyes. So I paid my dollars and settled in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 9, 2008
4 stars**** Jodie Foster just has to be one the best actors currently working. I may have to add the word ‘ever’ to that phrase soon, or perhaps I should already before she’s even reached fifty. She works in an elite group, along with Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine; you know their performance on screen will [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
4 stars**** I missed this at the cinema, but I wish I hadn’t. It was on my long list to see, but time beat me so it was handy winning this DVD in a movie competition.This is a brilliant mix of assassin and comedy; a blend not usually brought together so effectively.Ben Kingsley stars [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 19, 2008
3 stars*** Been to the drive in. Watched it. Entertained reasonably. I wasn’t bored, but I wasn’t absorbed. Well acted. Well filmed and edited. It was satisfactory. I wouldn’t rush to see it again, on television or on DVD. I can’t see why it scores so highly elsewhere. It must be my personal opinion, then. I preferred it to the last Spiderman [...]
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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