Wish you were here is arguably the best Aussie film to come out since Animal Kingdom. It’s wildly unique in it’s editing, plot and the way it shows events, constantly changing between the past and present. It also feels disturbingly real and shows the dangers of travelling.
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Starring Joel Edgerton as Dave Flannery and Felicity Price as his wife Alice, they go on a holiday to south east Asia with Alice’s sister and her new found man. The opening scene of partying (featuring a great track from Aussie hip-hop band Hilltop Hoods) could not be more opposite to what follows in this movie.
Archive for April 2012
Movie Review – Wish You Were Here (2012)
The Weekly Watch: Installment #13
I watched three diverse movies this week, including two new releases – the first being the lovely french film Romantics Anonymous, which was great. I also checked out Act of Valour, an American film due out in the next couple of weeks in Oz.
I also watched the last Christopher Nolan film I had left in Insomnia, and it did not disappoint! Read on for more…
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Movie Review – Romantics Anonymous (2011)
Romantics Anonymous is a sweet, charming story from France about two emotional chocolate lovers and a blossoming romance. It’s characters are cute, plot is light and most importantly it made me laugh and left me feeling warm and fuzzy inside.
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We meet Angélique (Isabelle Carré) who is a very pretty and uncontrollably shy chocolate maker and enthusiast. She is also very talented but prefers to keep inside her shell. When she goes for a job at a struggling chocolate company owned by Jean-René (Benoît Poelvoorde), we quickly see that his emotions are also very extreme in that he’s highly nervous and shy around women, or even people in general. Read more
The Weekly Watch: Installment #12
Just the 3 movies this week, including new release Battleship, 2009 french film A Prophet and the best of them all, Christopher Nolan’s first feature film in Following.
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A Prophet (2009) – A french prison film in which a young Arab man is sent to jail where he becomes a mafia kingpin. A Prophet is brilliantly made and really mesmerising. It has a good story line and main actor Tahar Rahim does a great job and you can really connect and relate to him. While I really enjoyed it it’s quite long (2 hours 35 minutes) and I did feel the end probably didn’t do it justice. Can’t quite put my finger on what it was. B
Following (1998) - This movie was awesome! Read more
Movie Review – Battleship (2012)
Battleship was yet another hollywood Sci-fi action movie, that for one reason or another didn’t live up to it’s budget or cast. While some actions scenes were cool, it was ultimately slow, often cheesy and had one of the most predictable scripts of all time. I found myself constantly guessing what the next line would be and constantly getting it right!
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Starring Taylor Kitsch, best known for his other 2012 Sci-fi movie John Carter, as Lieutenant Alex Hopper in the US Navy, Kitsch plays a character who in my opinion is not very likeable. Liam Neeson also features as Admiral Shane, in what was also an unusually unlikeable character as well. To top it off, Rihanna is for some reason quite a major character, and while she wasn’t actually that bad, she was still a very strange person to have fit the role as the only female on board the ship. Read more
The Weekly Watch: Installment #11
While I had a quiet week last week, I managed to see 5 movies this week, with only American Reunion being a new release.
I finally manned up and watched Paranormal Activity which gave me chills, have nearly finished watching the Alien Quadrilogy after watching Alien 3 and watched the universally loved There Will Be Blood. Last but not least I checked out Catch Me If You Can which had been on my watchlist for a while.
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Movie Review – American Reunion (2012)
13 years after the original American Pie and literally the entire cast are back for the reunion of all reunions. I loved the first two movies and while I was hoping this would be just as good I braced myself for the worst. Thankfully though, American Reunion is a refreshing, funny and possibly the best installment of the whole series!!!
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While arguably Stifler (Seann William Scott) steals the show again with his crude, laugh out loud pranks and jokes, the film itself is really well made and actually feels like it’s plot is going somewhere. There are heaps of outrageously funny set ups, but it’s mix of clever and subtle jokes as well was something that caught me by surprise. Without giving too much away, a particular reference used twice to Jim (Jason Biggs) was brilliant and I couldn’t stop laughing throughout!
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