reviews of movies we haven’t seen

Kenny is the latest “little film that could” from Australia or England, which means it’s a short comedy about quirky people.
So it’s got like either naked old people, or a dead guy, or homosexuals, or some other bunch of working-class people with thick accents doing something stupid for a noble reason.
The poster has a whole [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2008 under Comedy, Foreign.
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I don’t know why but all of a sudden there seems to be A LOT more movies that aren’t in English. Or maybe my English is just getting worse.
Anyways, whenever there’s a French movie, I turn to the experts at The London Times (or as they call it over there, simply The English Times).
Their critic [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2008 under Drama, Foreign.
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I would have to say that being exposed to all these different kinds of movies has really broadened my interests. For example, The Last Mistress is a movie that it used to be I would have been seriously disappointed by. This is because
1. The poster shows two chicks about to make out, and this [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2008 under Drama, Foreign.
Comments: 1
Anybody who knows me knows I’m a sucker for movies about brick lanes.
The past several years have been good to people like me, but I would have to say that Brick Lane is the pièce de résistance. Because check this: not only is it all up-in-your-face about being a brick-lane movie, but also it is [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2008 under Drama, Foreign.
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Do you know how sometimes they take a character from an older movie that was successful and then they make a whole movie about that guy? Like how they’re making a Wolverine movie? Or The Jeffersons?
Well now they’ve made a whole big long movie about Mongol, the guy who punches the horse out in Blazing [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2008 under Action/Adventure, Foreign.
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If you’re anything like me, and of course you are, you cried when you saw Cinema Paradiso. Because there wasn’t nearly enough women getting tortured and sold into sex slavery.
Luckily director Giuseppe Tornatore has made up for his past offenses with The Unknown Woman, a movie that understands that exploitation doesn’t end at the screen [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2008 under Drama, Foreign.
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I wasn’t sure what kind of movie to expect from the title, but the promotional copy said it was about guys who were “full of 20-year old verve,” and that could be either hella hot or hella disgusting so I was really looking forward to it.
It turned out to be about two boring Norwegian guys [...]
Posted: May 19th, 2008 under Drama, Foreign.
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It’s a problem that filmmakers have faced for almost a hundred years: How, in a scant amount of time, can a film possibly give a sense of the entirety of a person’s life? Even if the problem of which events to show on screen is solved, there remains the problem of how to portray the [...]
Posted: May 13th, 2008 under Drama, Foreign.
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Flight Of The Red Balloon is a movie about some stupid boy getting followed around by some stupid balloon. Then his mom (who is a fucking puppeteer played by Juliette Brioche) gets sick of the balloon and hires a Chinese girl to follow her kid around instead. Big deal!
Posted: April 3rd, 2008 under Foreign.
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When I asked my friend Ricko if he wanted to go see Les Chansons d’amour with me he said “Dude if I wanted to see a French musical about a guy named Les who loves dogs, I would beat it out of you.”
After he beat it out of me I got real sleepy, though, so [...]
Posted: March 20th, 2008 under Foreign, Musical.
Comments: 2