I enjoyed School of Rock, it wasn't that well balanced, but the low points were made up for by the good bits (well, the stage dive at the beginning). I saw Nacho Libre on a flight to North Carolina, and I thought it stank, but everyone can get the odd thing wrong. I enjoyed Tenacious D's videos.
I saw the trailers for `Be Kind Rewind' and really enjoyed the idea of a couple of amateurs creating fake copies of films which had been destroyed; I was happy to buy the notion of Jack Black becoming magnetized and hence wiping the tapes ... it's sort of the same as X-Men and an amusing conceit as an introduction to some witty, amusing stuff with the expectation of conceits and exposure of continuity / scientific / plot errors or something ... Read More:
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Wow!
THE Hercule Poirot himself (A.k.a. Sir Peter Ustinov) in action! That's really something to watch and fully enjoy! I think Ustinov was realy born for this role (so sad he passed away, but, anyway, we don't live forever). Together with "Appointment With Death" (another great DVD) can make you stick in your armchair for several hours, not worrying where did you put the remote...
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This is a good adaptation from the book. After watching "Evil under the Sun" and "Appointment with Death" you naturally think of Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. The whole movie is packed with great actors, yet even thought you recognize them they do not distract from the characters that they play.
I thought that it was a nice touch when the kids along the shore mooned Mrs. Van Schuyler (Bette Davis) as kids would do everywhere.
Simon (Simon MacCorkindale) and his new bride Linnet (Lois Chiles) are being perused by Jacqueline De Bellefort (Mia Farrow) the girl he jilted. Once onboard a boat down the Nile bodies are dropping like flies. Everyone is a suspect. Everybody could have done it. And yet nobody could have done it. ... Read More:
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I must agree with Nanahuatzin, this film is good but the international edit is much better. I got the UK DVD on sale in Zavvi (sadly the closing down sale) and after watching it found a few bits confusing, so as I generally do I checked it out on IMDB. There I learned that the distributors in the US decided to cut the love scenes out for the US and UK films. So I looked around, having not spent much money on the UK cut, and found an international DVD with full uncut English soundtrack. 9 minutes of footage doesn't sound like much, but suddenly so many scenes make more sense! So buy the international film and watch it as it should be seen. Oh, and it's real name is "Arthur and the Minimoys", not "Arthur and the Invisibles".
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I think this is an interesting film to watch rather than a very humorous or involving one.It will appeal mainly to people who are forty years or older who can understand and relate to the mid-life crises of the main protaganists.One married couple's marriage falls apart and then their friends start to think about their own marriage and that falters too.
Woody Allen plays a university professor of literature whose wife secretly writes poetry but thinks he is so critical that she is too scared to show it to him.As in many Allen films you get to hear his paranoia about what he fears he could be like himself in real life and the usual undertone that everything around us is poised to tumble into chaos.A film for high brow people who like serious novels.If your ... Read More:
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I'm a fan of Woody Allen films because they're always laced with witty comment and insight into the human condition.This film is no exception but I found that unlike many of Allen's other films the narrative didn't seem to focus enough on anyone in particular (which is surprising given the emphasis on Hannah in the film's title)and that I didn't feel emotionally involved or sympathetic towards any of the characters being portrayed.
Michael Caine's character seemed out of place (an englishman in New York).
I also found the old-fashioned 1930s music and 1930s reminiscent drab,colourless clothes of the cast out of place given that we were supposed to be experiencing New York in the 1980s.However the dialogue was in general good and the film locations interesting.From ... Read More:
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Now that Woody Allen seems desperately in need of stricter quality control - maybe a new collaborator or some sort of sabbatical - it is refreshing to (re)visit this relaxed, charming and sunny little farce from the early eighties. A period setting in the American countryside, but it hardly registers as the film's fanciful romantic ambience envelopes the viewer so completely. Anyone who remembers Alan Alder's Four Seasons will enjoy this. Only the metamorphosis at the end struck me as out of sync with the comedy.
This ensemble movie is witty, engaging and perfectly paced; it complements Love & Death superbly and will be ideally suited to anyone normally wearied by Allen's New York neuroses. A perfect tonic.
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Rarely does a motion picture capture an era with such nostalgia and reverence, as Woody Allen's "Radio Days". Set in New York City as World War 2 breaks; "Radio Days" captures the mood of the times through the music, drama, news, sports - and even the commercials that entertained and informed listeners in the days when radio ruled the media roost. Seen through the eyes of a young Jewish boy and his extended family in working class Brooklyn, the movie is really a series of well crafted vignettes, based on fact mixed with fiction. Some are hilarious, some touching, but always entertaining and filled with the great "Swing" music of the era. As usual, Allen's ensemble of actors deliver terrific turns as they recreate those great old days. Mia Farrow, Diane Wiest, Julie Kavner, Michael ... Read More:
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'Rosemary's Baby' is without doubt Roman Polanski's best movie.
Still after fourty years this film scares me. Not in the kind of gruesome (torture-porn) kind of way that the Saw franchise do, but in a deeply psychological way, in the spirit of all the great twentieth century horror films. Rosemary (Mia Farrow) is the young married woman who's just moving into an upstate New York appartment block with her husband, actor Guy (John Cassavetes). The pair soon get to know their neighbours (mainly) Minnie Castevet & her husband Roman Castevet (Sidney Blackmer).
Rosemary's baby is a very scary film, not gruesome (sometimes mildly explicit) but it has that claustrophobic eery feeling & after the first half of the film the feeling that no one can be trusted & that the ... Read More:
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