[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005ZCSP9Q][/pullquote] Beware the Ides of March, the soothsayer tells Caesar, but Caesar fails to beware and is betrayed and ultimately murdered by Brutus. March is the month in which George Clooney's new film is set - just prior to the primary elections “ a key time … [Read more...]
Review: Melancholia (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005PWVK52][/pullquote] Melancholia, sadness, depression. A perfect word that encompasses Lars von Trier's film making technique. Melancholia is the oddest disaster movie ever made, with no reference to the impending doom until over half way through, many may seem … [Read more...]
Review: The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005, France)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B000C05YGI][/pullquote] The Beat That My Heart Skipped is a rarity, in that it's a ˜world cinema' remake of an American movie. The movie in question is Fingers, a 1978 thriller starring Harvey Keitel as Jimmy ˜Fingers' Angelelli, a young man torn between a career as a … [Read more...]
Review: Let the Right One In (2008, Swedish)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B002BMZZM8][/pullquote] Oskar is unhappy. An outsider at school, he's a pallid, shy, awkward child; a child who tucks his jumper into his trousers and dreams of vengeance towards his bullies. He wanders the snow covered estate where he lives, always alone. Until one … [Read more...]
Review: I Don’t Know How She Does It (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0064OUGDM][/pullquote] Sarah Jessica Parker (SJP for short) in 2011 is one of the highest paid actress' in Hollywood. If you look at her back catalogue, it is not films like Hocus Pocus or State and Main that got her to such a highly regarded status, but rather her … [Read more...]
Review: Good Will Hunting (1997)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00525QKI4][/pullquote] Having not seen this film in years I recently purchased a copy and decided to become re-acquainted with Mr. Damon, pre-Bourne and Mr. Affleck, pre- J-Lo. Fresh faced and eager to please, Good Will Hunting showcases both Damon and Affleck's … [Read more...]
Review: 127 Hours (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004VLKXG0][/pullquote] 5.3 days, 127 Hours, 7620 minutes, 457000 seconds, no matter how you look at this time frame, being stuck in a life and death situation, on your own, in the middle of nowhere, is unimaginable. 127 Hours tells the story of Aaron Ralston the … [Read more...]
Review: The Skin I Live In (2011, Spain)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005LGXFFA][/pullquote] In the late 80s and early 90s, Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas were a film-making team extraordinaire. Almodóvar directed Banderas in a series of films such as Matador, Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown and Atame! Then Hollywood … [Read more...]
Review: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Thai)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004GP0O42][/pullquote] Uncle Boonmee is the latest movie from Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Shortlisted for last year's Academy Awards, it's a slow-paced meditation on life (or multiple lives) and death. Boonmee is an ageing farmer in rural Thailand. He is … [Read more...]
Review: Killing Bono (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0084NZEWY][/pullquote] Based on Neil McCormack's Memoirs Killing Bono: I was a Bono Doppleganger, the 2011 film Killing Bono, highlights the failures of a band who once gigged with, and were friends to the now world famous U2, especially lead singer Bono. Not a … [Read more...]