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Films 2013

 

Title Rating Comments
Saving Mr. Banks

Ms Travers is so brilliantly played by Emma, and the rest all do their part so well.
Quote: "We can't make the picture without the colour red." "Get on the horse Pamela."

The Wire Season 5

So here comes the 4th estate.
Quote: "Baby, I could die happy." "Joe, relax, breathe easy, won't hurt none."

The Wire Season 4

And the drug dealing continues, but we have coppuption in City Hall too.
Quote: "Hey, youngens got no scrap of work ethics now-a-days." "Sometimes it is what it is, really is." "Damn boy, you're mothers what we niggers call a dragon lady."

The Wire Season 3

From the docks back to the projects.
Quote: "Prime that bitch three times, she start right up."

The Wire Season 2

This seems to be addictive.
Quote: "We got prime real estate and no product." "You're late!" "There were two of them, I was outnumbered." "You should have had a son - but then I would have had a wife." "You want a coffee, soda?" "No, Vodka."

The Wire Season 1

Looks to be a realistic scenario. What do I know?
Quotes: "You follow the drugs, you get a drugs case. You follow the money, you don't know where you're going." "Draft-dodging peace freaks eh?"

Goodbye Bafana

Well filmed, but aparently not at all close to the real story. Finnes is good.
Quote: "Let's see you breaking some rocks."

Your Sister's Sister

Yanks are so weird when it comes to relationships - or is it me? Nice though. (Who said never to say nice?)
Quote: "Whoever has the sun, turn it on."

Night Train to Lisbon

Some excellent actors, Jeremy is not one of them, a very vanilla performance. A beautiful story.
Quote: "If Jesus had been guillotined, people would be genuflecting in front of a blade."

Now you see me

Nice, not into magic, but this was a good script and implementation. Love the Paris ending.

Gravity

Awkward situation to be in.

In Which we Serve

Wonderful speech - I can understand every word. Those were the times. Clothes like my parents used to wear in the late 1950s.

Francis Ha  

Like and Andy Wahol flick, going nowhere with me wondering what the hell this is... TFU

The Simpson's Movie

Fun and true to form.
Quote: "It's not that the Government is listening to everyone's conversations."

I'd Give it a Year

A little too adolescent, but there is Mini Driver.
Quote: "I'd ruin Bieber." "I would jump on him like a bouncy castle."

The Hunger Games

So much like Orwell, creepy. Very well acted and filmed. "Metropolis" comes to mind, so does "War of the Worlds"

Death on the Nile

Now there's a real Poirot.

Dark Passage

Obviously set in the times, but well done, some good twists.
Quote: "I thought I had a good life here, but you going away, it doesn't seem so good anymore."

Murder on the Orient Express

Finney does not a good Poirot make. Star studied, the rest were all credible.

Key Largo

Excellent performances. The tension is there.
Quotes: "A sock in the kisser is the only thing that'll bring her out of it." "He's alright Dad, he's coming back to us."

Sightseers  

Weird. For the sake of violence we have - violence. Luckily we haven't met any campers like these two. Nice landscapes.

The Longest Day

Dated, but a lot of "stars" from back then. Loosely based on the facts.

The Heat

Have to love Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. And a smile for John Ross Bowie.

Designing Woman

Looks amateurish now.
Quote: "I'd like to know how far you can go?" "A lot depends on who's in the saddle."
"What's wrong with you?" "Nothing you can't fix."

The Big Sleep

Looks amateurish now.
Quote: "I'd like to know how far you can go?" "A lot depends on who's in the saddle."
"What's wrong with you?" "Nothing you can't fix."

To Have and to Have Not

Simply fun with a few good voices and faces - especially Lauren.

9 (2009)

The world has been taken on by machines and all the people are gone, but a number of sack-cloth puppets. Then the fun begins

High Society

After so many years it still has something, maybe just a lot of stars? Songs still great though.
Quotes: "Sinatra: Who he?"

Zorba the Greek

Sweet film, must have seen it years ago. Anthony, Quinn, Lila Kedrova, Irene Papas and Alan Bates - most convincing.
Quotes: "Wife, kids, house. The full catastrophe." "It is big, but she shakes it well." "When a beautiful woman sleeps alone it is shame on all men."

More than Honey

Looks like we will have to rely on the feral bees, the honey bee is doomed by our actions.

Mr Morgan's Last Love

Mr Caine should leave the american accent. Charming story. Pauline and St. Malo?

Ironman 3

All action. Jarvis didn't do so good!

Hope Springs

Fun. Almost anything she does is simply excellent. Tommy Lee isn't too crappy either. Steve Carell does his bit too.
Quotes: "OK, so who in here is not getting sex?"
"Carol with the corgis?"

Moneyball

Enjoyable even though I don't understand much about baseball. Brad Pitt is good and so are the other two.

Cairo Time

A predictable but well done movie. A bit slow.

Emperor A good flick although the acting of the main character was a bit squishy - haha. Interesting script though. Tommy Lee is good.
The Big Bang Theory Just on Season 6. #22 is a real dinger with bob Newhardt - for which he has just won his first ever Emmy. love this show.
Gambit The story line just fails.
The Lone Ranger   Really nothing to do with the TV series of the 1950s. CGI rules, especially in the train scene - simply silly.
Elysium Not his best. The CGI heads have won control
Searching For Sugar Man Fun, and a twist. A real troubadour.
Cloud Atlas Rather a good flick, so many recognisable actors, some surprises too. One often wonders how the future will develop.
Great Gatsby A few too many special effects for my taste and the music line was not what I would have chosen. Some powerful performances though
Skyfall In German - still not one of the best. And that song is simply a waste of a good voice.
Moonrise Kingdom Sweet film and entertaining too.
Himmelfahrtskommando OK, but had to leave early. Weird arrangement of the storyline.
Exodus Stirring stuff. Paul always knew how to smile.
Chasing Mavericks Neat story, great photography. "It's important to appreciate life, You only get to do this once."
Laurence of Arabia Interesting to watch again after so many years. But the music is still annoying, as are the extended desert scenes.
The Big Wedding Silly, but good cast. The dialog nearly works.
Only god Forgives   Oh dear. Either really Avanguarde or just crap.
Ironman Silly, but good graphics.
Ironman 2 Silly, but well done
Broken City Good.
The Wizard of Oz Quite silly.
Los amantes pasajeros (I'm So Excited)   Pedro Almodóvar has lost the plot. Waste of time this one.
M*A*S*H Still a great film with an exceptional cast. It hits all the right spots. The beginning (for me) of the delights of Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland. The genius of Robert Altman.
Quotes: "He was drafted".
"OK bud, your fucking head's coming right off ".
Ginger & Rosa

Interesting flick, though I didn't think the different components worked particularly well together.
Quote: "I see your point".

Arbitrage

Gripping story very well acted. . Recommended.

The Magic of Belle Isle

Very much my kind of movie - such words and emotion, simply superb. Recommended.

The Big Year

Silly idea with many actors including the voice of John Cleese. Some nice feathers too.

Killing them Softly

Trashy, not really worth watching.

Full Metal Jacket

Supposed to be a Kubrick classic, maybe it's me? Not what I would call interesting, or gripping.

Legends of the Fall

Gripping movie. A bit of indian voodoo, but ok still. Brad and couple of delightful ladies.

Narrow Margin

Well done with Hackman and Anne Archer.

Lay the Favorite

Silly little flick.

Red Lights

Weird, but some good acting. A story of the fraudsters of the paranormal.

Premium Rush

Nice story-line of a bike delivery man and the New York Chinese underworld, with a bent cop. New York in constant sun - most realistic I think not.

The History Boys

Fun. Alan Bennet all over it And why not? A group of boys trying to get into university with history as their man subject.

Lawless

Guns in the US of A at the time of prohibition. By now part of classic US cinema.

The man who sued god

Silly idea, but the move is right, insurance should mean insurance, after all they have their actuarial tables, they know the risks. Boy, did you see that lovely car?
Quote: "It's a fucking Cockatoo"

East is East

A well done piece but what a cultural mess made by men. And then there's religion - what a waste of space. The denouement is a delight.
Quote: "Bloody Nora"

Innocents

Rather strange French film about a girls school with Marion Cotillard.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Very well done, but nonetheless difficult movie. Excellent performances by Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn and Max von Sydow.
Quote: And oxymora - "Now then, good grief, found missing."

Heartburn

Based on the book by Nora Ephron who recently left us. Star cast of Meryl and Jack, with music by Carly Simon. I must have seen this in 1985, but I hardly remember - roll on old age. Milosh's namesake and also a young Kevin Spacey.

Freelancers

De Niro must have been facing a big IRS bill.

Dawn Rider

Not a special film but it did have a plot and it does include Jill Hennessy.




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