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It is the not too distant future and multinational conglomerate The Union have made organ donors and waiting lists a thing of the past, by manufacturing artificial mechanical body parts available to the general public.
Dear John’s signature style of over-simplifying and repeating everything leaves no room for subtlety or duality of meaning but sometimes that’s exactly what is called for.
It longs, unashamedly, to be a quirky, parochial indie-comedy, whilst striving, also, to hit those Loach, Leigh and Meadows notes of gritty slice-of-life gravitas.
I was in awe of this movie; stunned. Stunned that it had made it to the big screen, let alone the Oscars. The Blind Side is just not good filmmaking.
The best stories, characters, images and ideas persist in the mind when the credits roll, but Perrier’s Bounty meekly expires as the screen fades to black.
Neil Marshall has now developed a distinctive cinematic voice and he’s showing the older players that there can be other ways of doing things.
It was refreshing to watch a mainstream flick where women were calling the shots, both in front of and behind the camera. A genuinely funny, feel good coming of age film.
Shutter Island is a faithful, detailed movie not set in 1954, but of 1954. Scorsese is fully flexing his cinephilic chops.
Whereas the original, Nathalie…, is virtually devoid of any tension and anticipation, Chloe is a Hitchcock thriller for the 21st century.
If you’re the type of person who enjoys late-night, true-life tales of conmen and fraudsters, you may find yourself succumbing to Jim Carrey’s endless scams and deluded optimism.