This is a pretty predicable film if you have seen the trailer you have seen the file. There are some funny moments. It is about 4 blokes going on a stag do to Vegas, and predictably it all goes wrong, but they end up at the wedding on time just in the nick of time.
A murder mystery with a twist. A guy (Samuel L Jackson), ex-cop, who runs a business cleaning up after murders/suicides. He attends the scene of a murder to clean up, and no one is there so he cleans up and leaves. Only thing is he forgets to return the key, when he does the person who is at the house knows nothing about it. Anyway it turns out the cleaner has a past, his wife was murdered and the murderer was killed in prison.
The cleaner then find himself getting more and more involved in the case, he has essentially been stitched up. His ex partner then gets incvolved to try to help him resolve the issues, and police corruption raises it head and it seems like there is no way out.
A great thriller of a film, I would recommend seeing it.
Animated feature film about a villain who wants to steal the moon and pull of the biggest and most notorious crime ever. He as a rival called Vector who finds out about his plans via his father the Villain Bank manager. Throw into the mix three cute orphans (one reminded me of my niece) and you have the makings of a great story. It is funny, sad, heart warming and most of all slapstick. Watch the 3D version if you can.
Bit of a strange story this one. Morgan Freeman is a contract killer who is putting together a team take out a rich business man. It all goes wrong when his is in an accident and ends up in hospital, where they find his gun and call the police. The local police man finds out he is a wanted notorious killer and arranges for the Washington authorities to transport him to thier offices.
He escapes on route and ends up kidnapping John Cussack and his son who are out hiking. The story then becomes a hunt and chase movie with Morgan trying to escape, Cussack trying to get him to the police and Morgans colleagues searching for them all.
Retired and extremely dangerous, is a a tongue n cheek comedy /action film. Bruce Willis plays a retired CIA agent who in the past has lead a dangerous exciting life as an operative in the field. He is a lonely and regularly phones his pension company to complain that his payment cheque has not arrived just to be able to speak to a female employee who he is trying to pluck up the courage to ask out.
Things get complicated when a crack squad are sent to kill him, as you would expect he kills all the squad out to get him and then embarks on a road trip picking up the pension administrator and few ex-colleagues along the way. The colleagues are played by Helen Mirren, Morgan freeman, John Malcovich, and Brian Cox.
The film is full of plenty of action as well as comic moments and the team try to sort out the situation. Well worth 4 stars an enjoyable film.
Quirky film where you are never sure if it is a comedy or a serious film. It is about a girl called Juno who gets pregnant. The father is a high achieving student who is also in the school running team. Juno lives with her father and step mother.
The film basically shows the way the kids and the family deal with the pregnancy, and Juno’s decision to give the baby away to a couple who live in an affluent suburb.
The acting is great, and there are some great moments both funny and touching.
Everyone knows the story and everyone has been talking about for weeks, well they have in my world of technology podcasts. This is the film about Facebook. It has three threads to it the early days, he time when it became mainstream and their court cases with the Winklevoss’s and his friend and co-founder. Because I knew the story I was less impressed than Helen who said the acting deserved 4 stars.
I saw the original and expected this follow up to be as good, sadly I was very disappointed. Gordon Gekko is released from prison and writes a book about the mistakes of his era. His daughter is a journalist for an NGO breaking controversial news stories, is living with a high flying banker. Somehow the banker and Gekko link up and a twisting plot emerges.
I found the film very confusing although the plot was easy to follow it was not very obvious where the film was going, it just seemed to tick along with scenes in banks, and in their loft apartment, interspersed with artistic interludes of numbers. Helen was so bored she walked out and read her book in the foyer, I can’t give this film more that 2 stars, I guess it would get 1 star if I had walked out too. Beau Travail would get 1 star.
Swedish murder mystery film, a reporter for a controversial magazine comes to the public attention when he loses a court case, after being accused of libel. The case turns out to be a distraction. In any case a rich head of a family business employs him to investigate the murder of one of his relatives some 30-40 years previous. The reporters computer has been hacked into by a professional hacker, who gets drawn into the investigation. The hacker is a troubled person with an abused past and is under the control of a probation officer who is also abusing her.
You get the idea things are complicated and the film is 2 and a half hours long but we watched it to the end. We watched the english version which was dubbed and a bit distracting.
This is a film set in 1968 based around the strike by the female workers at the Ford Dagenham plant. They were on strike demanding sexual equality and equal pay for women. The film has some really great moments, and it really well filmed. They seemed to have gone to a great deal of effort to make the scenes as authentic as possible. I particularly liked the aerial shots of the factory behind some blocks of flats, they seemed to have coloured a black and white phot up and animated the smoke from the factory chimneys. The cast were really good I particularly like Sally Hawkins in all her films.
All in all a great film not quite 5 stars but well worth a watch.