This is a bit of an oddball of a film. It’s quirky, funny and I love how the story unravels extremely slowly.

Sean Penn is Cheyenne, an ex-goth singer, looking like a mix between Robert Smith and Edward Scissorhands, who lives off his royalties but is extremely bored and carries along a huge weight on his soul.

He’s frail, eccentric, has amazing oneliners and great dialogues. He embarks on a weird road trip where he’s confronted with himself, his own fears and his inability to grow up.

I just loved Penn. He’s just so so good as Cheyenne and the scenes with his wife (played by the brilliant Frances Dormand) are so touching and charming. 

It’s a slow movie, not THAT much happens but I love how much heart and soul there is in the scenes. And how it is filmed. Plus it has a great performance by David Byrne! 

Highly recommended!!

I have mixed feelings about this film about Britain’s most notorious prisoner.  

Positive things: Mainly Tom Hardy. He’s phenomenal as the brawling Bronson. But not just that, he’s also great in those interludes in the movie, like when he’s half himself, half a nurse. He is truly the hightlight and carries the whole movie on his own. He goes from untamed wildness to funny in a snap. (Loved the scene with the cocktail on the sofa)

Secondly, the way it’s filmed. it’s beautifully done and the music is well chosen. It’s artful without overdoing it.

The negative points are mainly to do with the endless scenes of fighting, prison, fighting, prison, etc.

Also, there is no sense of motive. Why can’t he stop fighting his way through life? What’s his problem? It all stays in the dark.

There is lack of a real storyline of real substance which they have tried to make up for with the amazing acting by Hardy and the photography and music. It can’t save the whole thing sadly.

This highly enjoyable film starring British finest such as Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith and Tom Wilkinson is about a bunch of golden oldies who go to a hotel in India but then find out that the hotel is far from finished and also have to deal with a culture shock. While most embrace the change, others have more trouble and this changes the relationships between them. 

I mostly enjoyed Maggie Smith as the racist Mrs. Donnelly. Her dialogues and facial expressions are priceless. 

The story is warm and full of heart and soul. A great movie for a relaxed evening!

The conclusion of the Red Riding trilogy made me shiver in agony. Once again pitch black, gruesome, mind boggling.

The acting is amazing throughout the trilogy and this is by far one of the best mini-series I’ve ever seen. It’s based on real life murders with a fictional plot woven around it about the terrible corruption of the Yorkshire police. 

Truly stunning stuff.

This comedy about a dysfunctional family is actually really enjoyable. Paul Rudd plays Ned, a happy go lucky guy who always wants to see the most positive in people but ends up in jail for offering some dope to a policeman. 

When he’s released he finds out his bitchy girlfriend is living with another man and is unwilling to give Ned his dog Willy Nelson. He ends up staying at his mum’s, followed by each of his 3 sisters (Emily Mortimer, Zooy Deschanel and Elizabeth Banks). He can have a job at his brother in law’s movie (played by Steve Coogan) and as he goes along he discovers that his sisters all have some problem. The all end up blaming him but in the end he, of course, made their lives better.

It’s of course predictable yet it’s refreshing to see this type of film with a family that’s definitely not stereotypical. it’s quirky, funny, and basically endearing. The whole cast does a great job and it results in a charming film that’ll make you feel better!

I loved this movie so much. The story is touching and realistic, the performances just incredibly good. 

It tells the story of an Algerian refugee who applies for a job as a teacher in a Canadian school after one of its most loved teachers has committed suicide in the class room. He helps the kids to cope with the tragedy, along the way also trying to help himself getting over the traumas he has regarding his past.

There are so many beautiful little moments, so many touching things. 

You just have to go and see this because it’s a real gem.

The wonderful Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston star in this film based on the play by Terrence Rattigan. 

Hester (Weisz) is trapped in a boring marriage. Her husband loves her and intellectualy they are each other’s match but there’s no passion, no lust.

Then she meets Freddie (Hiddleston) and falls head over heels for him. She leaves her husband and moves in with him in what’s to become a self-destructive romance full of passion. The bring the worst out in each other but love each other a lot. 

When Hester tries to commit suicide it’s the beginning of the end. Freddie sees that they are too much for each other and she becomes friends with her estranged husband again.

The end of the film sees Hester as a truly free woman. Both her relationships were destructive: the first for not having enough passion (or none at all) and the second for being too passionate. When Freddie leaves, you can feel the weight falling off her shoulders. Now she is really her own woman.

I loved this film, it’s beautifully filmed (the playing with reflections, the dark and light, …) and the acting is amazing. 

This is a lovely film starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt about a crazy project in the Yemen involving salmon.
It’s about science, faith, friendship, love, relationships going wrong, and lovely backdrops.
Just go with the flow and you get almost 2 hours worth of wisdoms and relaxation.

Once again an amazing episode. Ink black, but slightly less heavy as the first one with Andrew Garfield.
Once again focussing on the corruption of the police force, it’s enough to make your blood boil.
Great acting, amazing storyline.
Don’t trust anyone cause your so-called friends are setting you up so hard….

This biopic by Clint Eastwood starring Leonardo Di Caprio is considerably well-acted but too long and boring at times. Edgar is writing his memoires, fabricating the truth or downright telling lies, while we see his rise as chief of the FBI. Di Caprio does a good job but it’s all a bit of a dull affair to watch.
His relationship with Clyde is downplayed, only towards the ending they look like an old bickering couple, and his fancy for women’s clothing is lightly touched upon.
What irritated me the most was the despicable make up job they did on Clyde. It was like watching Spitting Image. I wouldn’t watch this again, to be honest.

Wow. This movie deserves all the awards it got. Truly amazing film about events that seem too far out to be real.
Ben Affleck is great,both as director and actor.
This is one of the most exciting, nerve wrecking, inspiring film I’ve seen in some time.
Brilliant from start to finish. I had sweaty hands and feet towards the ending. Hell yes.

This BBC film is definitely worth seeing for a few reasons : an amazing William Hurt and the fascinating yet shocking discoveries by the commission who had to look into the reason of the explosion of the Challenger.
I don’t think I’ve seen Hurt acting better than here, never more natural and convincing.
When you hear what caused the explosion and why it wasn’t prevented….all you can do is be angry and sigh deeply.

This documentary is once again -as if we needed it- proof that man is the most cruel of all beings. Nim, taken from his mother, raised as a human baby, taught sign language, left in a primate facility when they couldn’t handle him anymore, taken into a facility to perform experiments on him, and finally ending his life after a heart attack at the tender age of 28, is a symbol of the stupidity and cruelty of humans. The leader of the project, Herb, is a despicable man and the same can be said for a few others involved. Thankfully, there are some people involved who did care.
Terribly depressing, heartbreaking, nauseating documentary.