Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 London River 7/10 7/7 thing set in London. A woman estranged from her daughter goes to London after she fails to hear from her daughter after the 7/7 bombing. An African man does likewise to find his son and the two become linked by their children's circumstances. It's a bit contrived in this respect and there's some fairly heavy-handed racial moralising going on but it's quite an affecting and touching film with some interesting cultural and generational aspects to it. Pretty good stab at a post 7/7 film I think. Not sure I've seen any others save Four Lions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 The Muppets 7/10 Lego 9/10 Platoon 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 The Beast 8/10 Has to be seen to be believed! Kind of a porno Benny Hill featuring a very unconvincing Chewbacca-type creature who chases scantily clad birds around the forest with his dick overflowing with spunk! I kid you not! Absolutely hilarious! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 The Story of Children and Film 9/10 Mark Cousins' doc about depictions of childhood in cinema. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Mistaken for Strangers 7/10 The documentary made by Tom Berninger (brother of Matt Berninger of The National) following said band on tour. It was pretty unusual - for a documentary that follows a band on tour there is very little about the band from a musical perspective. Its more like a simple drama of the tensions between two brothers and how they reconcile one being more talented and successful than the other and all the guilt and resentment that comes with it. Props to the band for allowing some less than flattering portrayals of themselves - for a band that has come from an indie background we see how much thought is put into maintaining their image and how ruthless their management is in keeping them an efficient operation. Wankers! Very original but could have done with a bit more substance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Cold Fish 6.5/10 Loosely based on a couple of Tokyo serial killers, this is a macabre combination of family and social breakdown, powerplays, and gore. Extremely grim but balanced by some very black comedy, and the performances of both the big fish and the little fish; the criminally deceitful entrepreneur and the everyman he aims to manipulate for his own ends. Good stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 The Double 8/10 Latest film from Richard Ayoade. Jesse Eisenberg is a timid jelly manlet adrift in a Kafkaesque world of bewilderment and his one scrap of desire away from his shit job, shit boss, dying senile mother and the world pissing relentlessly into his eyes is a waifish blonde who works in the copy room and lives in a flat conveniently facing his own to enable spying. One night whilst spying on her doing quirky waifish blonde shit he spots someone above her window, who waves, and them tops himself. From here, stuff gets weird when the double turns up: he looks and sounds and dresses like Eisenberg (and is played by him) but he acts completely the opposite. I won't spoiler anything but it's simultaneously pretty freakish and also territory we've been down before (Fight Club, Vanilla Sky). The main thing is it's pretty funny and entertaining and dark and some of the small roles/cameos are great (Chris O'Dowd, Chris Morris, J Mascis, Tim Key) and the whole thing is meant to be quite Brechtian and therefore not 'real' so it gets away with taking a lot of chances visually and in storyline. Some minor problems here and there but for a small, low-ish budget Britfilm it does a lot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 The Beast 8/10 Has to be seen to be believed! Kind of a porno Benny Hill featuring a very unconvincing Chewbacca-type creature who chases scantily clad birds around the forest with his dick overflowing with spunk! I kid you not! Absolutely hilarious! I haven't seen this in years, but that's a pretty accurate description. Probably quite dull if you know what to expect, so put it on next time the wife invites friends over for dinner and watch the reactions Big black hairy spunking animal cocks FTW! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 A Fallible Girl 6.3/10 Set in the UAE focusing on two Chinese immigrant friends trying to make a living as entrepreneurs in the mushroom industry. The stresses of the business threatens to undermine their friendship but in truth the film lacks a bit of narrative clout with limited emotional pull as the characters are hard to like. But its quite an atmospheric and authentic snapshot of immigrants trying to get by in the claustrophobic streets of suburban Dubai. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I haven't seen this in years, but that's a pretty accurate description. Probably quite dull if you know what to expect, so put it on next time the wife invites friends over for dinner and watch the reactions Big black hairy spunking animal cocks FTW! haha, aye that'd go down smashing! It's bonkers, It's like Luis Bunuel made a Confessions... type film. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Ginger & Rosa 8.2/10 Understated and beautifully realised melodrama based on two teenage friends living in London under the cloud of the Cuban missile crisis. Their friendship becomes compromised as Ginger’s militant father becomes increasingly friendly with Rosa. Ginger is the focus of the film as her back story is slowly revealed; her vulnerability begins to surface her CND stance hardens. Great cast with Timothy Spall, Christina Hendricks, some others, but Elle Fanning steals the show with a really subtle performance as Ginger. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Route of the Moon 7.2/10 Whimsical road movie set in Panama/Costa Rica. Cantankerous macho father, introverted ten-pin bowling obsessed albino son and a female stranger they pick up form the menage-a-trois. The plot revolves around a trip to a bowling tournament but is sabotaged by the father’s health problems and then complications surrounding the additional member of the journey. It was a bit slight but quite good natured and good fun and I quite enjoyed it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Locke 8.7/10 Tom Hardy plays Locke, a structural engineer who makes a decision to travel the country to attend the premature birth of the child he spawned as a result of a one night stand. In the process he jeopardises his home life and also his professional career as the next morning he is due to supervise one of the most important concrete pours of his career. It really is much more exciting and tense than that sounds with the whole film being set in the car he drives as a series of increasingly fraught personal and professional phone calls ensues. Some of it lacks believability but I liked the concept and was gripped from beginning to end. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Requiem For A Dream 7/10 Films like this make me glad that I never got into drugs. Love the opening scenes in which Jared Leto repeatedly steals and pawns his old dear's TV to fund his habit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Jeane and Jolie 7/10 A 17 year old French girl turns to prostitution out of sheer boredom and ends up giving an eldery viagra-ed up client a fatal heart attack . His missus turns up late on for a bit of bi-curious with the prozzy. Titilating and affecting in equal measure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 The Thin Blue Line 8/10 Iconic mid 90s Richard Curtis sitcom where Rowan Atkinson plays an uptight.....oh hold on, [reads IMDB review].....iconic mid 80s Errol Morris documentary about a man falsely imprisoned for murder. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Nebraska 7.5/10 Bruce Dern's great as a cantankerous old f**k travelling half way across the states to collect a million dollars that he hasnt actually won. His missus is also awesome - facing down gold digging relatives, swearing like a navvy and flashing her twat at a former admirer's gravestone. Gently amusing and poignant blah de blah. Not sure why it needed to be filmed in black and white though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Philomena 7/10 Better than expected, though a lot of it is Philomena as loveable old Irish mare enjoying Mills and Boon and Martin Lawrence movies like some kind of idiot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Fascination 6.6/10 A fine erotic horror set around a thief at large who attempts to hide in a castle he stumbled across in the countryside in France in 1916. The two chambermaids who he finds there take a liking to him but the lust of one of them isn't quite what it first appears. A superb performance from Franca Mai and trademark Rollin dreaminess and ambiguity mean this hits harder than your standard Hammer chebfest. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 No Country For Old Men 9/10 Still their best film probs 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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