The Bombing (aka Air Strike) takes place in China where everyone is obsessed with an annual Mahjong contest, despite floods, droughts and, now, World War II. I thought I’d signed up to watch an action movie, not ‘Play Chess (’80s daytime series). Similarly, the dialogue feels like something from a bad soap opera, and even […]
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No Comments »Bullet Head is one of those ‘bad guys doing one last job’ sort of film. This time, the baddies are Adrien Brody and John Malkovich, and while on the job, they’re soon followed by the police, then some sort of beast turns up, and finally, Antonio Banderas! Bullet Head, which also stars Rory Culkin, Ori […]
Wes Anderson is a genius of a director, his most recent movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, being both a critical and box-office triumph, so good on H&M for choosing him to direct their 2016 Christmas advert, knocking all of the others into a cocked hat, even though that was a piece of (Christmas) cake. In […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers Tags: Adrien Brody, Come Together, H&M, Wes Anderson No Comments »Septembers of Shiraz is one of those dramas where everyone walks about pondering about the whys and wherefores of life, such is the lack of interest about anything going on here. Prior to the Iranian revolution it was a place where people of all religions were allowed to flourish, this is the story of a […]
Manhattan Night stars Adrien Brody as Porter Wren, a scandal-loving New York City tabloid writer, even though he’s a family man, devoted to his loving wife, Lisa (Jennifer Beals). But then he stars an affair with Caroline (Yvonne Strahovski), who asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon (Campbell Scott). […]
Dragon Blade is a forthcoming samurai-based sword-fighting epic due out later this year. A massive success this year in its native China, Dragon Blade brings action spectacle on a grand scale. Featuring an international cast led by Jackie Chan, John Cusack and Academy Award winner Adrien Brody, the film features the fight for the Silk […]
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The Grand Budapest Hotel makes its way on to Blu-ray and DVD, with a bold instruction at the start of the film: “PLEASE SET YOUR MONITOR TO 16X9”. You’ll see why in due course. The film involves the theft of a priceless painting, a wealthy, 84-year-old dowager (Tilda Swinton) who dies which leads to a […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Adrien Brody, Alexandre Desplat, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Edward Norton, F. Murray Abraham, Fisher Stevens, Florian Lukas, Giselda Volodi, Harvey Keitel, Hugo Guinness, Jason Schwartzman, Jeff Goldblum, Jeremy Dawson, Jude Law, Karl Markovics, Larry Pine, Léa Seydoux, Mathieu Amalric, Neal Huff, Owen Wilson, Ralph Fiennes, Saoirse Ronan, Scott Rudin, Stefan Zweig, Steven M. Rales, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Tony Revolori, Volker 'Zack' Michalowski, Wally Wolodarsky, Waris Ahluwalia, Wes Anderson, Willem Dafoe No Comments »Third Person tells of three interlocking love stories, involving three couples in three cities: Rome, Paris, and New York. The Japanese trailer was very bizarre, not least because the occasional Japanese language meant you don’t get a full grasp of what’s going on, whereas this new trailer is more accessible. Third Person hasn’t yet got […]
Third Person tells of three interlocking love stories, involving three couples in three cities: Rome, Paris, and New York. It’s a very bizarre sort of trailer, not least because the occasional Japanese language means you don’t get a full grasp of what’s going on, but it’s got a large cast in James Franco, Mila Kunis, […]
The Grand Budapest Hotel centers around an elderly Mr. Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), in 1985,recounting tales about his life at the hotel to a young writer (Jude Law), starting from the moment he started as a lobby boy, working under the charming but eccentric owner, M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), to the time when he came […]
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