Sheitan

Sheitan (2006)
AKA - Satan
Seen on DVD 25th August 2008

BRILLIANT French horror film with Vincent Cassel (Irreversible.)

STORY: 4.5/7
A group of teenagers want to go out and have some fun over the holidays. They decide to go back to Eve's house in the country of france. When they get there her housekeeper, Joseph, seems a little bit sus from the start. Little do they know what is planned for that night.

ACTING: 5/7
Vincent Cassel is a frickin' genius! He plays Joseph so believably that you almost forget it's even Cassel. However, my personal stand out is Julie-Marie Parmentier who plays "Jeanne" Joseph's insane niece. She is absolutely TERRORFYING!

* Julie-Marie Parmentier *

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 5.5/7
The French and the Italians seem to be the best at horror movies. They are always much darker and ominous, even from the beginning. I wish more movies would look and feel like this one.

SCORE / SOUND: 4/7
Cool and scary score but also utilises an odd soundtrack. Lots of french rap and rock.

SONGS: N/A

GORE RATING: 5.5/7
Not a constant flow of gore, but when it comes, it's nice and impressive. There's a fist full of hair (scalp included) and a nice little knife, made for one purpose alone.

Monica Belluci (quick cameo)
and Vincent Cassel (married)

OVERALL: 6/7

Battle Royale

Battle Royale (2000)
AKA - Batoru Rowaiaru
Seen on DVD 25th August 2008

BRILLIANT IDEA!

STORY: 6.5/7
Japan is overpopulated and the youth of the country are all hooligans. To stop the downfall of the country one-at-a-time a year nine class is selected and put onto an abandoned island. They are told that they must kill each other. The last one alive is the winner, if more than one person is alive after three days, they ALL DIE!

ACTING: 5/7
So good! these kids totally lose their minds!

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 4.5/7
Dark, fast, frantic.

SCORE / SOUND: 5/7
Big classical songs were used. The sheer giganticness (is that a word) of the music is brilliant!

SONGS: N/A

GORE RATING: 6/7

* Chiaki Kuriyama *



OVERALL: 6/7


Interesting Facts -
- This is where Tarantino found Chiaki Kuriyama for her role as Gogo in "Kill Bill"

Perfect Opposites

Perfect Opposites (2004)
Seen on DVD 24th August 2008

A Rom-Com. *Blergh*
but it has Jennifer Tilly in it!!

STORY: 3/7
Boy meets girl... boy marries girl... boy and girl grow apart... can they EVER get back together?
Oh, and JENNIFER TILLY lives next door to them!!
(Yes, she is the most important part of this.)

ACTING: 3/7
Little to none.

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 2/7
I guess it was cool that they've added interesting techniques to a rom-com but i just found it annoying. Boy (yes, i just call him boy cause i don't know / care about his name) is showing us this movie... and because he knows it'sa movie, he can rewind it and fast forward it, to show us bits he likes or doesn't like. His commentary / narrating was just ANNOYING.

SCORE / SOUND: ?
I really don't remember. Which can't mean good things.

SONGS: N/A

*couldn't find a pic of till from the movie...
so this should do nicely.

OVERALL: 4/7

(3.5 of that is Tilly)

The Truman Show

The Truman Show (1998)
Seen on DVD 22nd August

STORY: 5.5/7
Truman was the first baby ever to be officially adopted by a company. He is also the star of his own television show, the thing is, he doesn't know about it. So many people think of this as just another stupid comedy movie with Jim Carrrey. The thing is... i think it's so much more, it's a social commentary about letting people run our lives,and losing control.

ACTING: 6/7
BRILLIANT! Jim Carrey manages to be so intense, while still carrying his "funnyman" act and Laura Linney is breath taking as Truman's "wife" Meryl.

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 5/7
When watching a movie, i sometimes find myself saying... "where exactly is that camera supposed to be? what kind of persprective is that?" ...and well, The Truman Show managed to fix that problem.

SCORE / SOUND: 4/7
Cool, but nothing all that special.

SONGS: N/A

* Meryl (Linney) and Truman (Carrey) *

OVERALL: 6/7

Baby Mama

Baby Mama (2008)
Seen At The Movies 21st August 2008

FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY Movie!!
I freakin' love Krindy!

(Krindy being Amy Poehler)

(It's an Arrested Development thing)

STORY: 5/7 - (Can I just spray a little PAM down there right before the baby comes out?)
Kate (Tina Fey) can't have children of her own, and decides that a surrogate mother would be the best way to have a child. Enter Angie (Amy Poehler) a "white trash" girl who wants a quick dollar.

ACTING: 4.5/7 - (It costs more to have someone born than to have someone killed!)
None of the characters are that deep, but everyone does a VERY good job at being who they are. Tina Fey plays that same vaguely anal, too-smart-to-be-that-hot Businessy type (30 Rock and Mean Girls) and Amy Poehler is a PLEASURE to watch as per usual.

* Amy Poehler as Angie *

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 3.5/7 - (Is that what you're wearing?)
Pretty cool looking.

SCORE / SOUND: 5/7 - (Stop framing your face! / I think it's good / it's not)
quite a cool score, fun and stuff. It wasn't all that memorable, but it was still good.

SONGS: N/A

* Tina Fey *

OVERALL: 6/7

" It feels like I'm shitting a knife! "

*Will Arnett and Amy Poehler*

(Gob and Krindy)

Psycho Beach Party

Psycho Beach Party (2000)
Seen on DVD 18th August 2008


ANN BOWMAN LIVES!!!

This movie was SOOOOO much better than i expected. I expected cheesy lame crap and what i got was... well, it WAS cheesy and lame, but also VERY camp and fun! and i'd also say very well put together.

STORY: 4.5/7 - (I've never been to an orgy before. What do I wear?)
So Florence (Lauren Ambrose) is a young girl who really wants to fit in and be cool. She's really a bit of a dork and no-one pays any attention to her. Unless of course, she falls into her alter ego Ann Bowman! Then it's a bit hard NOT to notice her. Oh, and there's some murders and things.

ACTING: 5.5/7 - (I'm no mere chick! I'm a goddess!)
So Lauren Ambrose first grabbed my attention (quite recently) in her role as Claire on "Six Feet Under" and when i realised it was her in Psycho Beach Party i was like... "holy crap! can we get that now?" and i was NOT dissapointed. Other people were good but it was ALL about Ambrose.

*Lauren Ambrose*

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 4/7
They totally pulled off the old timey feel of the movie. If i didn't KNOW it was from 2000, i would almost have beleived it was the 50's or whatever. (is that even a cinematographical thing?) (is cinematographical a word?)

SCORE / SOUND: 3/7 - (They look like beatniks, should I unpack my bongos?)
The score was a bit of a let down for me. Not memorable or entertaining at all really. IMHO

SONGS: N/A


OVERALL: 6/7

The whole is FAR more entertaining than the sum of it's parts!

*Another Lauren Ambrose just cause it's cool*

The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Seen on DVD 17th August 2008

STORY: 4/7
Andy wants to work in journalism, but can't break into the business in New York. She ends up landing herself an assistant job in one of the most prestigious fashion magazines in the country. Having been told that after a year at "Runway" she could get any job she wanted, she decides to stick it out. Unfortunately her boss Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) is a tyrant.

ACTING: 4/7
Meryl is brilliant, but that's a given. My personal favourite in the movie would have to be Emily Blunt. She's so funny, but so serious at the same time.

*Emily Blunt*


CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 3.5/7
Nothing special really. There's some ok montages of Paris, but nothing that hasn't been done before.

SCORE / SOUND: 3/7
The soundtrack is full of great songs, but i feel that they take away from the movie a bit. When Madonna's "Vogue" comes in, it's hard to think anything but "hey this is vogue, look at that footage that they set to vogue."

SONGS: N/A


OVERALL: 4/7

"I don't eat anything and when I feel like I'm about to faint I eat a cube of cheese"

Juno

Juno (2007)
Seen on DVD 14th August 2008

In the special edition orange tic-tac box!
*pictured below*

Writer: Diablo Cody
Dir: Jason Reitman

This movie was totally the unnexpected break-out hit of the year. Juno and "Death at a Funeral" were the indie-flicks that refused to stay down.

STORY: 5.5/7 - (It started with a chair)
So Juno (Ellen Page) is a 16 year old girl... and she's pregnant! That's pretty much the story!
She decides that she is incapable of raising the baby herself, so she finds a family who can't have children (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner) and sets up an adoption plan.

ACTING: 6/7 - (I still have your underwear / I still have your virginity)
Ellen Page is frickin' amazing in everything she's in! I have to take a moment to TOTALLY recommend "Hard Candy" (2005) which might possibly be her at her best!! Michael Cera is pretty much just "George Michael" in everything (Arrested Development?) and i'm completely OK with that. Oh, and Allison Janney rocks my socks off.

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 5.5/7 - ("Blah I am a Kracken from the sea!")
SOO SOO COOL! The title sequence already had me pants-wettingly excited at the movies. It's just so... ummm... fresh looking. It's sharp and neat but still edgy and cool. If that makes any sense. (I'm not very good at this)

SCORE / SOUND: 7/7 - (I bought another Sonic Youth album and it sucked... it's just noise)
The soundtrack for this movie is fan-fucking-tastic! I can listen to it all day long on repeat and sing along at full volume the whole time!! and it's hard to even pick a standout track cause it's all pure quality!

SONGS: 4/7 - (We sure are cute for two ugly people)
There's only one "song" in the movie really... and it's Juno and Bleeker singing a song from the soundtrack... but it's just such a good song!

*Special Tic-Tac Packaging*

OVERALL: 6.5/7

(I don't want to give my baby to a couple who describes themselves as "wholesome." I was looking for, maybe, a thirty-something graphic designer with a cool Asian girlfriend who kicks ass on the bass guitar, but I don't know, I don't wanna get too particular.)


Interesting Facts -
- The hamburger phone actually Belongs to Diablo Cody (the writer)
- Micheal Cera never ate a tic-tac on screen
- "Most Fruitful Yuki" doesn't exist

Lars and the Real Girl

Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Seen on DVD 12th August 2008

FUCKING BRILLIANT!!
Every now and then a movie comes along that just completely blows away what "movies should be."

It's also by the writer of "Six Feet Under" which i love. So that's a plus!!

STORY: 6/7 - (She is real)
Lars (Ryan Gosling) is a very lonely and sheltered guy. Both of his parents are dead and he has never been capable of forming bonds with other people. Just the thought of even touching another person scares him. All this changes when he "meets" Bianca. An anatomically correct life-sized doll which Lars orderred online. He doesn't use her for sex, but rather believes her to be a "real person" who he forms a loving relationship with. His family, worried about his condition, seek the advice of a therapist who tells them it would be best to just "go along with it" and that Lars would stop believing it when he no longer needed her.

It seems a little bit odd, but it's truly a BRILLIANT story. After a while, as a viewer, even i saw the life in Bianca, as someone who Lars can connect with on his own terms.

Meanwhile, at work, Margo (Kelli Garner) is only liking Lars more and more as she gets to know him better, through her own interaction with Bianca.

ACTING: 6/7 - (Sometimes I get so lonely I forget what day it is, and how to spell my name)
Superb acting. Ryan Gosling made some brilliant choices and is simply a pleasure to watch. However, i think the stand out for me was Kelli Garner. I knew her from "Thumbsucker" (not that she's easy to recognise with her blonde hair) and she is just getting BETTER. She managed to be sweet and naive and also very deep and mature at the same time. Special Mention to Emily Mortimer also.

*Kelli Garner as Margo*

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 5.5/7 - (it's just a thaw - winter isn't over till Easter)
This movie looks really soft, if that makes any sense. Lovely and slow moving, gorgeous to watch.

SCORE / SOUND: 5/7 - (L is for the way you look at me...)
Really really nice soundtrack by David Torn

SONGS: N/A



OVERALL: 6/7

WONDERFUL!

I recommend that you see this!!

*Bianca and Lars*

Interesting facts -
- To make her seem "realer" Bianca actually had a trailer on the set.
- Bianca had 9 different faces
- the whole movie was shot in 31 days

Jason X

Jason X (2001)
Seen on DVD 11th August 2008

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... *sigh*

Basically, this movie is a JOKE!

STORY: 2/7 - (ha ha ha ha)
Jason Vorhees has been captured and put to death (unsuccessfully) many times. Some random people have decided that it would be best to just cryogenically freeze Jason and keep him that way forever. Unfortunately, in the year 2455 he is un-frozen on a space ship and goes back to his old habits.

ACTING: 1.5/7 - (ha ha ha ha)
There isn't much.

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 4/7 - (hmmm...)
The Nano-Bots or "ants" as they call them are pretty cool, and Jason is nice and shiny once he gets his "update."

SCORE / SOUND: 5/7
i gave it 5 purely because it includes...

[whisper] Ch ch ch - Ha ha ha - Ch ch ch - Ha ha ha [/whisper]


SONGS: N/A


GORE RATING: 4/7
A face get's frozen and then smashed off. That is pretty frickin awesome.
Jason also gets MAJORLY destroyed a few times. (I love how you can kill him lots of times.)


OVERALL: 3/7 - (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)


Interesting trivia -
- Jason never blinks
- The BFG is mentioned (DOOM the game)
- Kill count: 28

Deal

Deal (2008)
Seen on DVD 10th August 2008

Jennifer Tilly!!!

The saddest thing ever is seeing a movie cause it has someone you love (Jennifer Tilly) in it, and then they're in it for a total of about 2 minutes.

The cool thing though, is when a movie that looks kind of gay turns out to be kind of cool.

STORY: 4/7
Alex has just graduated college and plays a bit of poker for fun, getting into a few tournaments here and there. Tommy used to be a pro-poker-player and is now retired, under the instruction of his wife. When Tommy sees Alex play he realises that he can live out his "glory days" by training this newcomer to win at the world series of poker (or whatever it is.)

ACTING: 5/7
I was actually quite satisfied by the acting after i got over the shock of... "Hahaha, look, it's Burt Reynolds... What's he doing? He's just Burt Reynolds."

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 2/7
Why do all poker movies have to look so choppy and sharp. and the weird angles that you look at the cards from are just annoying. And of course the "Welcome to Vegas" montage of neon lights gets very old very quick.

SCORE / SOUND: ??
I don't remember, which means it can't have been that good.

SONGS: N/A

* Jennifer Tilly *



OVERALL: 5/7

There should have been more Tilly. She makes everything more entertaining.
Or more Chaniqua. She was cool.

Interesting facts -
- Jennifer actually plays poker!
- They used the actual set of the world poker tour.
- Bret Harrison (Alex) associate produced "Zombie Honeymoon" (2004)
- I LOVE "Zombie Honeymoon"

Watching The Detectives

Watching The Detectives (2007)
Seen on DVD 10th August 2008

Video Stores were the theme of the viewing that night.

STORY: 6/7
Cillian Murphy plays Neil, a mild mannered movie nerd. He owns his own video store and lives out his life through old movies. That is until the day that he meets Violet (Lucy Liu.) She doesn't watch TV or movies because she prefers to live out her own adventures. As they get to know each other Violet turns Neil's life upside down and gets him into quite a bit of trouble.

ACTING: 5/7
Cillian Murphy is great in EVERYTHING that he does. Luct Liu is quite good in her role too. Fun and bubbly and yet very dark at the same time.

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 3.5/7
It's a kind of generic looking movie however the opening sequence was quite nice

SCORE / SOUND: 4/7
Fun, cool... not something that you'll really walk away humming but still quite nice.

SONGS: N/A


OVERALL: 5.5/7


Interesting Facts -
- Neil mentions that "The City of Lost Children" is by the same director as "Delicatessen"
- That director is Jean-Pierre Jeunet and i have BOTH of those movies.
- Owning a video store would be BRILLIANT!

Be Kind Rewind

Be Kind Rewind (2008)
Seen on DVD 10th August 2008

Dir: Michel Gondry
Written by: Michel Gondry

I love Michel Gondry
He is so distinct and funny

So... ummm... i'll just get to it.

STORY: 6/7 - (I'm Bill Murray, you're everybody else)
Original story... HECK YES! So Mike (mos Def) is left in charge of Mr Fletcher's video store while he's away. Jerry (Jack Black) isn't supposed to be allowed in the store, and there is a good reason for it. After becoming magnetised in a sabotage-gone-wrong Jerry deletes every video in the store. (Yes, they're still using VHS.) Hoping not to let Mr Fletcher find out the boys re-film all of the movies themselves.

ACTING: 4.5/7 - (I need you to say "I will piss on the bones of your ancestors")
Jack Black and Mos Def spend 90% of the time doing what made them famous. Def is a mouthful of randomness and Black dances around making funny noises. I was however a little shicked to see them both take a really nice dramatic turn at the emotional peak of the movie. Mia Farrow also makes a noticable input as Miss Falewicz.

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 4/7 - (I will shoot you. And I know robot karate!)
Basically, there weren't any big special effects but i still gave out a 4 because of the effects Jerry and Mike made themselves. A burning marshmallow man and tinsel on a fishing rod. Pure genius.

SCORE / SOUND: 5/7 - (your feet's too big)
Cool soundtrack made up of a kooky almost mis-matched score and some cool old-school jazzy tunes.

SONGS: N/A


OVERALL: 5.5/7

(We did it...because we're Ghostbusters!)

Really entertaining and just heaps of fun!!

Interesting Facts -
- Jack Black was in "King Kong" (2005) and they "swede" King Kong
- Sigourney Weaver was in "Ghostbusters" which they swede and appears in this movie
- Michel Gondry "sweded" the trailer for this film.

The Dark Knight

I'm not gonna review it again...
but i'm gonna do this...

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008)
Seen on DVD 7th August 2008

Oh yes!
Heck heck yes indeed!

STARSHIP TROOPERS THREE!

And... not only do we own starship troopers 3 on DVD but it's the special edition.
The version which is actually (digitally) signed by Casper Van Dien in character as Johnny Rico!


For those who can't read that, it says:

"Are you ready to do your part?"
Casper Van Dien
Johnny Rico

so anyway... onto the movie.

STORY: 5/7 - (Are you ready for Marauder? Join the Mobile Infantry and see if you have what it takes to be a citizen)
So it's been a few years since the first movie. We've been learning from the brain bug we captured on planet P. The war hasn't moved that far forward, but RICO HAS! he's totally all important in the army now. So we basically think we've got this bug thing all done and dusted now. We understand them, but what would happen if we learned that maybe the bugs GAVE us a victory and had a bigger plan?

ACTING: 4/7 - (Get in there and kill 'em all!)
Basically it's all you'd expect from another starship troopers. No brilliant acting, but still heaps of fun.

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 3.5/7
Quite dissapointing actually. I don't understand how technology can get better, but the CG elements can look worse?? The bugs weren't beleivable.

SCORE / SOUND: 4/7
It was ok. Nothing that cool

SONGS: 6/7 - (it's a good day to die!)
Lord almighty is there a song in this movie!!! It is absolutely amazing!!
So basically it's a piece of crap, but the pure hilarity makes this a strong 6.




OVERALL: 5.5/7

JOHNNY RICO!!!


Interesting Facts -
- Johnny Rico is HARDCORE!
- (i've got nothing here)

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Seen on DVD 6th August 2008

This is probably the kevin smith movie that embraces the entire View Askewniverse the most. It cameos characters from all the other movies. Sometimes actors are playing more than just one character.

STORY: 4/7 - (Miramax? I thought they only did classy pictures, like "The Piano")
Mother mother fuck, mother mother fuck fuck, mother fuck, mother fuck, noise noise noise. So they're making a movie of "Bluntman and Chronic" the comic Banky and Holden made based on them. When Jay and Silent Bob find out people are dissing them on the internet they decide the only way to stop it is to stop the movie being made. and then... well... stuff happens.

ACTING: 3/7 - (my ex-girlfriend-who-was-killed-by-a-car-explosion's monkey)
What can be said. Ben Affleck plays himself.

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 4/7
There were some cool explosions and Silent Bob used the force.

SCORE / SOUND: 3.5/7
I don't remember any score but there were lots of "comical" sound effects

SONGS: N/A


OVERALL: 6/7 - (more than the sum of it's parts)

It's honestly a pretty terrible movie, but it's SOOOO entertaining.


Interesting facts -
- I'm not even gonna try to mention all the movie refferences
- The word "fuck" is said 228 times
- Carrie Fisher and Mark Hammil hadn't worked together since Star Wars
- The house from "Leave it to Beaver" is on the movie

The Compant Of Wolves

The Company Of Wolves (1984)
Seen on DVD 6th August 2008

1. Never stray from the path
2. Never eat a windfall apple &
3. Never trust a man whose eyebrows meet

So i had been looking for this movie EVERYWHERE after seeing it in a club one night on a little T.V. on mute. It took a lot of research to track it down and when i finally knew what it was and asked about it, I was told it was no longer available in the country. Guess what... I FOUND IT!

It's an amazing movie. An amalgamation of the classic Little Red Riding Hood story, and a nice dark warewolf movie. I want to finish another sentence with the word movie.

STORY: 6/7 - (I don't come from Hell, I come from the forest)
Rosaleen is a young girl whose granny has told her MANY stories about the creatures of the forest. She explains that while there are wolves who are hairy on the outside, the ones that are hairy on the inside are the most dangerous. After the telling of many different warewolf "fairy tales" one of them starts to take place.

ACTING: 5.5/7 - (They say seeing is believing, but I'd never swear to it)
Sarah Patterson is quite amazing in this movie. She could almost be a tiny little Helena Bonham Carter. Of course... there's also the wonderful Angela Landsbury! How can you say no?

*Sarah Patterson and Angela Landsbury*

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 4.5/7 - (it seemed like a good idea at the time)
Yes, that was a hannibal refference. Of course, that's where my mind goes any time that someone TEARS THEIR OWN FACE OFF! Heck yes there's some face-tearing. Also, as you can see on the DVD cover, the wolves burst out of their human bodies. TOTALLY SWEET!

SCORE / SOUND: 5/7
Eerie, haunting, beautiful.

SONGS: N/A


OVERALL: 6/7

(They say the Prince of Darkness is a gentleman. And as it turns out, they're right; a fine gentleman)

It's not that it's the most brilliantly made movie ever, it's just that it's absolutely brilliant to watch. It's gorgeous and memorable and simply brilliant.

*Rosaleen and the hunter*



Interesting facts -
- Based on a short story by Angela Carter
- Angela Carter wrote the screen play
- Terrence Stamp cameo's as satan

The Waterhorse: Legend of the Deep

The Waterhorse: Legend of the Deep (2007)
Seen on DVD (i don't exactly remember when)

accents are fun!

STORY: 4/7 - (hey, let's take that big gross thing home from the beach)
Pretty cool story. The whole "hey look, it's Nessie!" thing is pretty childish really and the whole "it's the war, kill the germans" is a bit boring. Together, however, they balance out nicely into a cool story!

ACTING: 5.5/7
Alex Etel is AMAZING! i fell in love with him in the movie "Millions" and of course Emily Watson who is yet to put a foot wrong in my mind.

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 6/7
Well, umm, there IS a giant sea monster in the movie.

SCORE / SOUND: 5/7
Pretty cool. uplifting, fun all that shiz

SONGS: N/A


OVERALL: 5/7


Interesting Facts -
- The "waterhorse" in mythology is an evil creature that kills you.

The Jane Austen Book Club

The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Seen on DVD 3rd August 2008

I think this movie goes further than your regular Rom/Com. For one, i liked it, and didn't predict the ending 3 minutes into the movie.

STORY: 4.5/7 - (All Jane Austen, all the time. It's the perfect antidote)
When Sylvia and Prudie have marital troubles, Bernadette decides that they should get together with a group of friends for a book club. They decide it needs to be books that they have all read before and eventually decide on... JANE AUSTEN! YAY! Then of course, as they read, they find some similarities between their own lives and those of Austen's characters.

ACTING: 4/7 - (High school's never over)
I was actually quite pleasantly surprised by this movie. I went in expecting a bit of trash and came out quite touched. Amy Brenneman is AMAZING and Emily Blunt, while so hateable at first, grows into a very complex and deep character as she let's herself unfold on screen.

CINE / VISUAL EFFECTS: 4/7
Pretty much all you'd expect from a rom/com. No huge amazing cinematographical tricks, but quite nice looking.

SCORE / SOUND: 5/7 - (hums along)
I don't remember the score much, but the soundtrack was quite nice. I caught myself singing along to some songs by Aimee Mann and Snow Patrol.

SONGS: N/A


OVERALL: 4.5/7

Interesting Facts -
- Everyone actually read (at least) the book that they hosted.

Sleuth

Sleuth (2007)
Seen on DVD 1st August 2008

A remake of Sleuth (1972)

In that original 1972 version... Michael Caine played the role that Jude Law is playing in this version! Not to mention Jude Law just re-making Caine movies all over the place. Alfie anyone?

So...

STORY: 6/7 - (I understand you're fucking my wife)
It's amazing just how good a story can be with only 2 characters and very few umm... things that happen? I mean things happen and it's AWESOME... but THINGS don't happen.

You have to see it.

ACTING: 5.5/7 - (Maggie never told me you were... such a manipulator)
Man oh man! so i have always liked both Jude Law and Michael Caine, but it wasn't until this movie that i think i REALLY respected either of them. They are both BRILLIANT!

CINEMATOGRAPHY / VISUAL EFFECTS: 6/7 - (cameras!)
This movie looks awesome! It opens being filmed from a camera above Michael Caine's door. You cannot see faces and there is very little action, but it is absolutely brilliant to watch. The filming decisions, i beleive, force you to really pay attention to the dialogue! Also... without wanting to give anything away... AMAZING MAKEUP!

SCORE / SOUND: 4/7 - (haven't i heard that before?)
The score for this movie was really good! The thing is, i spent the whole time just singing the theme music from the movie "IRREVERSIBLE"

SONGS: N/A

*Jude Law being all blonde and scary*

OVERALL: 6/7


Interesting Facts -
- This film was shot in complete in the right order
- Playwright Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay
- Harold Pinter does a cameo on a television.