My day was yesterday when I received a phone call was Crounel Marins, son of legendary Brazilian director José Mojica Marins, a filmmaker who had heard of many years, but knew little. As I said, it is quite something, and if you think a year-old man of 72 can not be cut in the horror of the scene today … Just wait. Crounel had heard that I was eager to meet his father, so I arranged to meet them at 21:30, directly from a projection, and I joined them for dinnerHe goes by the name of Coffin Joe, and had two big hits in the 60s at midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964) and This read more

Whatever your political viewpoint, I hope we all agree that just plain suck bad movies. With this in mind, I invite you to join me in preparing to condemn the film parody that seems to be An American Carol (see trailer here), a film in which a filmmaker named Michael Malone Liberal taught the error of his ways by the ghosts of Patton, George Washington and country singer Trace Adkins as the Grim Reaper.
Now, as regular readers may have found out, my policy is at the extreme left wing of the spectrum (for American standards, all I am a Communist, in English terms, somewhere around a read more

Ponyo Brunhilde is actually the daughter of goldfish Fujimoto, an evil wizard-type who looks like Tilda Swinton and life under the sea in a wooden submarine where he keeps his precious “elixir.” She likes ham and can do magic, that’s all you need to know about the latest animation Hiya Miyazaki, Ponyo on the cliff by the sea, a simple, kid-friendly film over the last two - ‘Howl s Moving Castle and Spirited Away - but visually amazing all the same. But while Fujimoto is away - God knows where it went, the film is not so hot on details like that - Ponyo escapes but read more

And 100 minutes later I had to agree. Mickey Rourke is absolutely sensational as Ram ‘Randy’ The Robinson, a wrestling star faded to make peace with his mortality and his life empty. Coincidentally, I met in the game Rourke Rachel Married on Wednesday, and was surprised to find very charming, very charming and disarming accessible in a way that did not expect. “I’m just an old, broken down piece of meat,” says his ex-daughter Stephanie (Evan Rachel Wood). Word was already coming to the first, on the half hour gap between the two, and, thank God, it was good. read more

I was not a big fan of Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film, K-19: The Widowmaker, but it seems that really got his mojo back here. I just came from The Hurt Locker, which I refuse to tell you about immediately. ” If not for the tremendous opportunity of the object would simply be a war is hell-great movie, a little lack of narrative unity, perhaps, but the scenery is breathtaking. Unfortunately, probably grouped with more parts and politicians as “Redacted” In the Valley of Elah, who were here last year, and ignored, what would be a real shame.
The clock is ticking read more

But the reason why the nice feature to mention is that very good performances from people looking to try to become Hollywood’s leading men.There are two very good films on this Saturday - Shakespeare In Love (ITV1, 22:15) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (C4, 19:30). Heck, you’ve probably seen several times both zillions. But being a discerning reader empire that already know they are good films.
Do not worry about giving something like a good dialogue and character motivation because we are all yokels make you look and drool anyway … “This read more

It happens only once every three or four years: an event so glitzy, so glamorous, so jam-packed with movie stars on Oscar dwarfs and inconsequential.
We’re talking, of course, large-scale opening Walt Disney Studios on your list for the next couple of years, held today in Los Angeles at the Kodak Theatre in front of an audience of thousands, and with a cast worth millions.
And the clips from Tr2n Prince Of Persia. And the 3D presentation of Bolt. And the trailers. It was a great adventure full of real stars, with read more

First, apologies for the long absence from this blog. I like to say that I’ve been busy on a mission to return a gifted mountain gorilla his birthplace near the ruins of Zinj, but I - that’s the plot of the movie Congo.Greetings, dear readers, and welcome to another episode of My Personality Cult.
Anyway, with the show. I’m not going to sugarcoat - my next choice is a monster, even by David Lynch rules. Appears in Mulholland Drive, the film I love most about freaky films of Lynch, and while he could easily be cut with read more

Sometimes film festivals to vomit the strangest symmetry. Without this track, God knows what would have made the remarkable film by Jaime Rosales. I’ll start with a bullet in the head (shot in the head), which totally baffled me. Last night I saw two films on the detection of terrorism here, both of them rather beautiful and experimentation in style. But something about this film really captured my imaginationI can not say that I enjoyed, I actually nodded off a bit in the middle, which did not help. After Genoa, saw the fear of me, which was another movie (in part) about parenting, read more

I expected a straight biopic, but despite having some of those elements, or rather the details, is much more impressionistic. Being in Abu Dhabi recently means that I have neglected my duties LFF, which began last night with the premiere of Nicolas Winding Refn Bronson, a biopic of Charles Bronson, most violent prisoner in Britain. I also met its star Tom Hardy on the set of Rocknrolla last year, and how reverently spoke of Bronson (the man, because the film had not been done yet) made me wonder if it was a bit naive, in the form that the middle class people rub shoulders with criminals read more

However, it appears that race may have its benefits.Divorce is never fun, like Guy Ritchie and Madonna are indeed carrying out this time.
The result of this renewed vigor for all things business is that some of his best work can come from anxiety.As the details of their separation arise, it seems that both parties are to channel their energies at work in order to weather the storm.
Similarly, Nicole Kidman earned her first Oscar nomination for (of Moulin Rouge) immediately after his divorce from Tom Cruise.Creation of new rumors read more

Dear Mark Wahlberg,
I’ve been a fan of yours for many years, probably since his break out performance in Boogie Nights. At home, his is a name not to be despised. Magi saw the film three times, and they were fantastic. I’ve argued on many occasions and I would like to continue doing so, but you’re making my job very difficult in recent times.
I hope you understand that I am doing this for your own good.” The pen is mightier than the sword, Mark Wahlberg, and the keyboard is like the pen gun. Being in a bad movie once in a while is fine - ask Michael Caine read more

As a result, I developed a sort of Pavlovian response to it, and even combined running time is about four hours now (including an intermission 20 minutes), in my mind seemed far, far more time and began to stand as a prohibition of Mount Everest in the cinema. As tired as hell, I missed the first screening of Steven Soderbergh’s Che at Cannes and catch up with him, despite being shown on two occasions. Still, to get a ticket and I thought, why not?
Knowing almost nothing about Ernesto “Che” Guevara apart from what I picked up from The Motorcycle Diaries, I was ready read more

Oliver Stone, W is a film that had my doubts, and I suspect that I was afraid the film is that everyone wanted: a big, noisy, Natural Born Killers-style satire George W Bush portrayed as savage, ignorant child murderer . Instead, he is given one of the thoughtful and intelligent dramas most of the year, no doubt full of moments of knowing, dry comedy, but the presentation of a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of arguably the most controversial president ever. With all the Bush-bait is happening in Europe, it is read more