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Caught up with Argo. Very stylised, and a great story....if you didn't already know the outcome, which like Apollo 13 (for me) took all the tension out of the story. Still, best film I've seen for a while. 7.5/10
 
Caught up with Argo. Very stylised, and a great story....if you didn't already know the outcome, which like Apollo 13 (for me) took all the tension out of the story. Still, best film I've seen for a while. 7.5/10

ARGO FECK YOURSELF,best line in ages,not a bad watch but not near the truth of the real story.
 
Le Quattre Volte. An old goatherd, a goat and a fig tree.

Nothing much happens, there's no dialogue but it was a perfect little film to drift in and out of on a Sunday afternoon as I dozed.

Yer typical poncy European arthouse movie: 5/10
 
Django Unchained. Not seen any Tarantino films since the Kill Bill duology, so can't compare to other recent films.

However, as always, soundtrack superb, lots of humour,lots of stylised violence. Loved the KKK scene, and the ending was well done. I actually thought Samuel L Jackson was best actor on screen - he oozed evil. Having said that, casting was near perfect - Jamie Foxx, DiCaprio, Don Johnson! and of course Christoph Waltz. Loved the cameos as well - Bruce Dern, Jonah Hill, etc...

Bit long though.
 
Broken City (2013) Dir: Allen Hughes

Strangely, part of the trailer for this film and a snippet of an interview with Mark Wahlberg were shown during the adverts while I was waiting for the actual movie to start. Wahlberg promised us the film would be a return to the plot driven movies of yesteryear, and to a certain extent he was right. This is the old story of a person, in this case an ex-cop turned private investigator, being drawn into a world where everything is not quite as it seems, and everyone he meet seems to know just a little more about what is going on than he does. Unfortunately, this reminded more of an overlong episode of, dare I say Man In A Suitcase, than a great conspiracy thriller like The Parallax View.

Wahlberg does well enough in the starring role and there is able support from Russell Crowe, sporting two rather odd looking toupees, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. However, the story is simply too formulaic, too clichéd, and there are too many coincidences for it to be considered a classic. That said, it wasn’t a boring film, just a rehash of plenty of earlier and better movies. And I am sure the film would have been a lot tighter and more focussed if it had been edited down to a run time of around 90 minutes rather than leaving it at its current length approaching two hours.

Perhaps one to look out for on DVD when it hits the bargain bins a couple of months after release.
 
Almodóvar's Los Amantes Pasejeros*.Not Pedro's best but funny in parts.



















































*The title will pose an interesting translation problem in English.The obvious translation would be (The) Passenger Lovers.But Pasejero can also mean "passing" which is a nice double entendre that'll be lost in English.
 
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I've just seen Love and Secrets (All Good Things) starring Ryan Gosling. Interesting, enjoyable if very immoral film about a man (family) that apparently got away with murder. Steely Dan used throughout the film, which for me, is almost as good reason on its own to see it.
 
The Disappeared - Low budget British horror flick about a kids that go missing on a housing estate. Not at all scary, but an interesting film that goes all "Omen" towards the end. 6.5/10
 

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