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I’m watching Hemingway and Gellhorn right now. I was in the video rental place and saw it there on the shelf. Main reason for grabbing it was that Clive Owen was in it. I’ve been mildly obsessed with him since the early 2000′s and did for many years regard him as one of the sexiest men alive. I am sad to conclude that that era is now over…

Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen in Hemingway & Gellhorn

The movie tells the story of the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and journalist Martha Gellhorn. In the beginning of the movie we see them meet for the first time. Hemingway (Clive Owen) is a famous author and Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) is an up and coming reporter. He’s married, she’s feisty. Hemmingway introduces Gellhorn to the Spanish civil war. They travel to Spain to make a documentary, and from there we follow their relationship more…

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This is definitely art-house cinema. I didn’t feel the urge to walk out of the cinema like a bunch of the reporters in Cannes did when they watched the movie. But I’m not sure I completely understood the movie, either. But nonetheless I was impressed because it certainly is a piece of art.

Vithaya Pansringarm in Only God Forgives

In the movie we first meet Julian (Ryan Gosling), the owner of a Thai boxing club in Bangkok that he runs with his brother, Billy (Tom Burke), and which functions as a cover for drug smuggling. When Billy is murdered as a consequence of his actions, the boys’ mother (Kristen Scott Thomas) arrives seeking justice, or rather revenge, for her son’s death. This opes Pandora’s box and Julian is faced with his mother’s demanding he avenges his brother. At the same time more…

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Bradley Cooper, Zack Galifianakis and Ed Helm in the Hangover Part III

The wolf pack is back!! And I am absolutely thrilled! I just watched the Hangover Part III yesterday. Going in I was a bit nervous (as I had been with the Hangover Part Two) because I really didn’t want to be disappointed, but at the same time I really wanted to see how it would all culminate in the third and final (so they say) movie and I wanted it to be as good as the first two. I wasn’t disappointed. Oh, and Bradley Cooper more…

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Overall I was impressed. I watched it yesterday. I didn’t know the story, haven’t read the book or watched the old movie. But I was expecting a true Baz Luhrmann extravagant movie… and I got it!

Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann’s the Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a story about a man, Gatsby (DiCaprio), shrouded in mystery. Everybody attends his lavish parties at his glorious estate, everybody talks about him, everybody wants to be friends with him, but nobody knows who he is… The year is 1922. The place is Long Island. A young struggling writer, Nick Carraway (Toby Maguire) moves into a small rented cottage while he has taken a job as a stock broker in New York. He has abandoned his hopes of becoming a writer. His cousin, Daisy (Carey Mulligan) lives across the bay in a grand mansion with her husband, Tom (Joel Edgerton). Nick has never seen his neighbour, Gatsby more…

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I think I’m glad I didn’t watch this movie until it came out on DVD. Then again, had I watched it in the cinema, it might have been able to hold my attention a bit more (because I wouldn’t have been surrounded by other distractions). Right now, as I am watching the movie, I am also writing the review and updating other things on my blog. Needless to say, the movie isn’t catching my interest all that much.

Michael Peña, Ryan Gosling, Robert Patrick, Anthony Mackie and Josh Brolin in Gangster Squad

The year is 1949. The place is Los Angeles. The city is being ruled by gangster boss Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), and his arch nemesis is John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) of the LAPD. Cohen is majoring in women exploitation, drugs and gambling, and O’Mara is the rogue cop putting a stick in Cohen’s wheel whenever he gets the chance. O’Mara’s goal in life is to rid L.A. of Cohen’s horror, and he sets up a secret unit in the LAPD which include other righteous policemen, or rather ‘group of misfits’. Now starts their quest of bringing him down. His team encompasses a group of bad ass cops more…

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I’m not usually a Woody Allen fan. Match Point and Scoop are good, but the rest, like his earlier stuff, I have little to no knowledge of. My first memory of Woody Allen was hearing about his affair with his girlfriend’s adoptive daughter Soon-Yi which probably also made me bias towards his movies. But he married Soon-Yi in ’97 and the two are still together today. But when I watched Whatever Works (solely because I knew Henry Cavill had a part in it), it helped me change my view on life! I love this movie. It is brilliant, it has a purpose, and it’s still very Woody Allen. Also he’s not in it himself which also helps.

Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood in Whatever Works

The movie is about this guy, Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David), who is a guy with a very high opinion of himself. Actually it is a bit hard to like the guy as he is bordering on the line of being a totally arrogant arsehole, but because of his quirkiness, panic attacks and lack of social skills you kind of come to care about him anyway. He accidentally runs in to Melody (Evan Rachel Wood), a teen run-away from the south with maybe lower than average intelligence. Now, whether this is a deliberate depiction of a stereotypical southern girl or a blonde, I do not know more…

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This is one of those rare gems that you come across once in a blue moon…. in my opinion. I have to be honest and admit that I only learned about this movie because I had a crush on Josh Radnor after becoming totally obsessed with How I Met Your Mother (which I also recommend getting into if you haven’t seen it yet), but I’m so happy I watched it.

Michael Algieri and Josh Radnor in happythankyoumoreplease

In the movie we follow Sam (Josh Radnor) and his friends over the course of a week in New York. The movie starts out with Sam being woken up by a phone call from his friend reminding him about a job interview. On his way to the meeting, in the subway he notices a little boy, Rasheen (Michael Algieri), who gets lost from his family. In his endeavor to help the boy he messes up his job interview, drags the boy all over town, falls in love… more…

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You cannot imagine how over thrilled I was to learn that Silver Linings Playbook has been nominated for Best Picture at the upcoming Academy Awards. Okay, there are 10 nominated movies, but I really really believe that this movie stands a chance. And I’m not just saying that because I’m partial. I absolutely loved this movie! And I’m not just saying that because Bradley Cooper stars in it. Really… it’s just a really good heart felt movie. It’s brilliantly cast, it’s the perfect combination of humour and drama, and it’s a love story too. All the things I love in one movie. It’s like Kinder Überraschung.

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook

Bradley Cooper plays 30-some year old Pat who is released from psychiatric hospital into the care of his parents, although the doctor’s not quite comfortable with the idea. Neither is Pat’s dad (Robert DiNero) for that matter. Now, it quickly becomes obvious to the audience that Pat is lacking a filter, a social connotation filter. He basically says what he thinks when he thinks it which leads to a lot of toe crinching moments, for the people involved, not for the audience. He has his routines to get through the day, but they get disrupted more…

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Henry Cavill as Will Shaw

My only objective for watching this movie was to look at Henry Cavill. I’m not ashamed to admit it. I had absolutely no idea of what the movie was about. I had just seen the movie poster and decided that I wanted to watch it.

The storyline is an American, Will, in his twenties, maybe early thirties, who joins his family for holidays in Spain on their boat. An entrepreneur with a company going belly up, he goes to shore to make a phone call in the village and when he comes back the boat is gone. When he finally finds the boat further up the coast it has been deserted, and there are signs of struggle. Who took his family and why? He gets help from Lucia, the secretary of one of his dad’s Madrid contacts. Now begins a chase more…

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Michael Fassbender in Shame

Shame is Steve McQueen’s second feature film and second collaboration with actor Michael Fassbender. I love Steve McQueen. And even though this was only his second feature film and I haven’t seen any of his art work, I had very high expectations to the movie. And I wasn’t let down.

In the movie we follow Brandon, a thirty something professional in New York. Everything is seemingly fine. He is successful, good looking, charming. On the surface everything is fine and Brandon could be the guy you envy for being able to hook up with anybody he’d like. But soon we’re introduced to his private life which he keeps hidden from everybody else more…

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