Yep, another exorcist movie. One starring Antony Hopkins and also featuring Ciaran Hinds and Ruther Hauer. I watched it basically cause it has a strong cast but let’s face it, great exorcist movies are very rare and this one is yet another one in the heap. You do get to see a glimpse of Hannibal lector towards the end. :-)

finally, I must admit that the scene where the possessed girl started throwing up nails made me a bit queasy. But then I had just eaten. So be warned. ;-)

Roman Polanski strikes again. I so so enjoyed this movie. Amazing quartet of actors, great dialogues, fabulous acting, especially Christopher Waltz is just smashing.

I grinned broadly throughout the whole movie.

fan-tas-tic stuff!

This movie gave me proper chills, the acting is just superb and the story is a gripping one. A young girl of 17 is left to her own devices, taking care of her two small siblings and her sick mother. Her father, a redneck out on parole, put up their house for bail, and now they risk losing everything if she doesn’t find her father back.

There are a lot of family tied hillbillies, red necks, and other scum but Ree stands ground. Inspiring, touching and soul-grabbing. A must see!

This animation is a fun one, especially with MetroMan looking like George Clooney but sounding like Brad Pitt. ;-) It’s a match of superpowers, but with a twist. And with a rather groovy soundtrack. 

It’s entertaining and it’s refreshing to see a different approach to the superman-stories.

It’s the stuff of gods but if I’m honest, this movie didn’t do much for me. The story is very thin, and I felt like the film was over before anything really interesting happened.

It’s better than the shambolic Iron Man 2 but just not my cuppa.

This film based on the real story of a young man who got stuck with his arm under a rock and after 127 hours, decides to cut his arm off is one hell of a movie. 

I remember reading about it just after it happened in 2003 and kept wondering how that young man must have felt during all those days of pure agony. This film is a decent in the mind of someone slowly going crazy with fear and exhaustion. 

James Franco is perfect in his role. It’s not a minor thing, most of the film it’s just him, in a canyon, stuck under a rock. But the sheer agony is readable on his face. When the crazies really hit him, the look in his eyes become frantic. 

I have to confess, I did fast forward through the scenes where he cuts off his arm, but that’s cause I’m no good with bloody and realistic scenes.

At the end of the film,  you can do nothing else but applaud this man. The sheer will to live and his unbreakable spirit.

fantastic.

Norwegian Wood is a Japanese film about love, friendship, growing up and coping with suicide. And of course, it features the famous Beatles song that’s now so stuck in my head again. :-)

Although the story is an interesting one and it’s shot in a stylistic fashion I can’t say I thoroughly enjoyed it. It dragged on too much. The music was too loud and even disturbing during some scenes. Naoko’s story, a touching sad story, could have been portrayed so much better. 

Once more a movie that starts out promising but ends in a disappointing way.

George Clooney strikes again. What can I say? I’m a big fan of the political movies by Clooney, and this one is no exception. Both Clooney and Gosling are in top form in this film about the pre-elections for the presidential elections in the States. All the smuttiness, below the belt, manipulations, affairs, etc.

Giamatti and Hoffman are brilliant support actors, but basically, the whole cast is excellent. With Ryan Gosling being its brightest star. 

Frustrating, eye-opening, touching, a must see.

This film started and I feared the worst: a typical romcom. I’m not a fan of romcoms. Well, of most of them anyway.

But, I was wrong. In the end I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks to Diane Keaton, Jeff Goldblum and most of all Harrison Ford.

The film is about a young woman (Rachel McAdams) who first loses her job at a radio station and then is hired to run breakfast TV show starring Diane Keaton and having Jeff Goldblum as boss. Goldblum’s hapless looks and remarks are brillant, Keaton could have had more screen time but makes the most of what she has but the real star is Ford as veteran journalist Pomeroy, a bitter and frustrated man. His facial expression and grunting were spot on and in a funny way endearing. Of course, it’s not a ‘deep’ movie, but it’s highly enjoyable and I just wished the bitching between Keaton and Ford would have gotten more time.

In the end, of course, all ends well. As it’s expected in such films. :-) 

Starring Vincent Cassel, this is the the story of a new born baby left behind at a monastery, growing up to be one of the most respected monks and his downfall.

Vincent Cassel is a fantastic actor but even he can’t save this movie that starts out quite promising. The introduction of the mysterious Valerio is in the beginning also promising but when you find out more about this Valerio, the movie goes downhill at the speed of light. The second part of the movie is downright insane with an ending that made me scratch my head in disbelief.

I expected much much more from this, it’s bewildering how a movie that starts out so promising ends in such a shambolic way.