That is a guy movie. Made by a guy, for guys, with a beer and a fag if possible in one hand. Good lord, it is violent, gory, twisted, mean, almost comical and if it had been written in a comic before, I wouldn’t be surprised. The director is spotless and the whole thing doesn’t let you think – a trademark of our times I am afraid. But there wasn’t any loopholes that don’t get stitched, so it was okay.
The subject? Eeerr…A Mafia boss has a younger rival, who ‘s been caught red handed- more or less. The FBI decides to put him under witness protection in order to get charges against the old boss- who’s responsible for more factions. But there is a contract passed on their prey- for a million dollars. Professional killers of all boards want to get the prize. SO of course, it turns nasty…And the nastier, the better for us.
Not a movie for the kids, I am afraid- not before a very long time. I am honest enough to say that it was a good one for the genre, although this is not my genre at all.
A must for the blokes.

I’ve put the dvds serie as a title as I am currently watching 12 movies of Stewart Granger, including ” the lamp still burns”, ” Love story”, ” Fanny by Gaslight”, ” Madonna of the seven moons”, ” Waterloo road”, ” Caesar & Cleopatra”,” Caravan”, ” The magic bow”,” Captain boycott”, ” Blanche Fury”, ” Woman hater” & ” Adam & Evelyne”.
Not being that cruel I watch these movies on my own while I do the family ironing. I like Stewart Granger as much as Cary Grant. Elegant, very versatile – much more than Grant who used to play the nice guy in every movie-, funny and I suspect not as cretin as his roles depicted him, I like watching Stewart Granger. men like these are rare nowadays. Anyway, unless you are a huge fan of Barbara Cartland ‘s books ( or Danielle steel , I guess, for the more modern), you probably will not enjoy this type of stories. From World war efforts to other centuries where gypsies, duel, cruel aristocrats and helpless women weer in abundance, these movies cover it all. It is actually funny to see what used to shock in the 40’s and 50’s and how much the stereotypes have evolved. I am sometimes surprised to see how things could be plainly depicted – like sex before marriage in an era when this was definitely taboo- but other times when I am almost bored – like the trick of the convenient memory loss that twist the story. The Bourne identity is a very old trick.
Highly pleasurable for me and me only. Ladies and gentlemen, nobody’s perfect.

If you have seen ” The others” with Nicole Kidman, you will have some reminiscence of the possible twist of the second half of the movie. That spoils it. But the idea is good indeed. A little village lives in lovely shaker style houses and lead very shaker style lives until some evil creatures appear and spread trouble and fear. A hero wants to break the limits that separate them from civilisation but seems only to bring on himself shame and pain. Then an event force the elders to reconsider their positions and beliefs; what choice are they going to make? Do they have the right to stop their children to know their past secrets and look out for adventure outside their community?
My husband warned the whole family that this was not an horror movie. Too much experience brought me to guess the truth within the first 30 minutes or so, but the rest of the audience remained confused until the truth came out. I must stretch that the average age of the audience was between 10 & 40. It is a good movie and raised a lot of questions from the adolescents in the crowd.
A good story for the people who think that the past was better, that the grass is greener over the fence and for the ones who like suspense but not violence so much.

Most men despise Jim Carrey but I personnally think that he is one of the nicest case of schizophrenia you can see on screen. His career is so eclectic and his face so expressive that I regret that he is not offered the chance to play more complex characters. Anyway. In ” 23″, he plays a bored and jolly nice guy who receives as a gift an intriguing book about an obsessive man who sees the number 23 everywhere. So far so good. But the main character strats to find analogies between his own past and the hero of his book – and that’s when things derail- of course. Now…the end is tad too twisted and unrealistic but I enjoyed the fact that a human being is shown with many of his contradictory qualities and aspects of his personnality. Carrey was able to give sweetness and depth to a hero that was definitely lacking a solid spine. The story itself could have been great – and just missed by a hair. It remains an interesting piece. More interesting is to share it with someone else and start re doing it. You’d be surprised what projections come out of it!
Not bad. Not great. For curious amateurs of the genre.

As it is a classic in the action movie department I had to see it. The jokes are terribly 90’s – I even thought for a while that it was an 80’s movie. At the time Will Smith was not such a star and MArtin Lawrence was. The wheel of life…and all that sort of things. Nice explosions. No real surprise. My boys will love it.

For once a funny movie that shows a bit of imagination. Two students in movies – one wants to be a director, the other a producer- get involve into porn cinema. Although completely unrealistic, the humour is light, the characters sweet and the ending is errr…optimistic. Not sure about that one. Anyway, two hours to relax and forget your prejudices. Porn is depicted in a very rosy way. Do not expect hard core sex. But you’ll see bits and bobs.
Funny and forgetable.

Nope, haven’t seen number 4 so far. You have quite a good spectrum of the changes in special effects through the 90’s up to today. Mr Willis gets dirtier and dirtier, physiacally, and balder and balder. His cating hasn’t changed much though. Once again you have an action movie that doesn’t let you down. Villains deserve to be kill and stunts are a little bit more realistic than, say, Casino Royale.
A boys movie.

I have put these 2 movies together as they are quite similar and are part of a trilogy. I couldn’t watch ” The Bourne supremacy” as we had just lended it to a friend. I will definitely watch it.
So we’re talking here action movies, thrillers, Matt Damon and loss of memory of a very special agent. Worth every penny of it as you don’t have the time to think and it is packed with action. A classic of the genre – although no real twist throughout the whole serie.
I am not a fan of Mr Damon, although I reckon that he was good in Goodwill Hunting and in Syriana.
Enjoy.

I actually don’t like Giamatti and when I saw him in ” Sideways” I found the whole thing- him, his character, the story- to be a huge waste of time. But in ” The illusionist” the director has been able to take the best out of him and give him a role where he has to show the difficulty for a man to be trapped between his duty and his sympathy. Brilliant. And he wasn’t the main character- so this is my way of telling you that there was more in the illusionist that met the eye. HA ha.
Edward Norton , once again, has the best role. He is a famous illusionist who wants to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart. But she is part of the aristocracy and they live in very dangerous times. The love interest is almost engaged to the future emperor of Austria- and he’s not kidding when his plans are being contradicted. So now you are prepared for plenty of twists, no explanation of any of the tricks you will see and you can readily enjoy the show. I watched this with my family, and they all liked it. Although I thought the story was not that simple, even kids understand fully the details of the plot.
Entertaining, charming and Miss Biel teeth are doing the trick.
I must stretch that my husband did notice her bum, actually, and was quite indifferent to her horse’s mouth.
Good movie.

If you know me, you know for sure that I like old movies. I am able to talk about Anne Baxter, Greer Carson and so on, which usually baffle most of my friends and acquaintances. Of course if you were born before 1920 I may rejoice you- if you still can remember anything.
Anyway, ” The heiress” came out and I just had to see it. I find Montgomery Clift quite insignificant at his best, but this time, he played beautifully and with a complex humanity that he didn’t very often displayed. Ms De Havilland was great and able to give to her character a slow transformation that left plenty of room to a big range of contradictory feelings that leave you just breathless. If you have read Malcom Gladwell, you know laready that it is only human to mould our representation of our other human fellows as black and white, with very little room for reality, which is that ( for example) a woman who a perfect bitch with her husband could be the most supportive, cheerful and loyal of your friends. In other words, we like to categorize our entourage because it is easier and because our brains have problems being that discerning. SO what I liked in this particular movie is that the characters were showing this reality in a very logical way that made you go through a large fan of different interpretations.
The story was unusual and must have been pretty subversive for the time. I wouldn’t be surprised if it still shocks today. A spinster lives with her father, a famous and very wealthy doctor, who’s lost his beloved and very much idealized wife. She meets a young penniless suitor, but is he after her money?. From a simple story unfolds the extreme of human nature- and in this story, you have more than one to discover. It is a scary tale and a very interesting one: the awakening of an intelligence.
If you like suttleness and strong women portrait, this one is for you.
Ms De Havilland knew how to choose her roles.