Remembering our past (Out the week - 13/08/10)

It's a strange week where the two big releases both look like dreadful prospects for a night at the cinema, needless to say it will either be cage or M. Night at number one and they'll claim a massive victory even if receipts of both end up bing disappointing. The film of the week on the other hand has be Oscar winner The Secret in their Eyes>.



Black Dynamite

It might not be timely - spoofing the blaxploitation subgenre which peaked over 30 years ago - but this all action comedy from Michale Jai White looks great in the trailers and hits all the right moves.

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The Final

Five kids getting bullied in small town America high school decide to deal with it through ultra violence and torture. This seems disproportionate to me, what do you think?

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Kalavaadiya Pozhuthugal

It's impossible to find many details about this Tamil film starring the irrepressible Prakash Raj. The ramantic comedy follows the fortunes of 2 couples. IF anyone can post a link to a trailer then I will be eternally grateful - this is the only film that's foxed me so far this year.

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Last Airbender

The US critics went to town tearing down M. Night Shyalaman's latest cinmatic venture partly due to it's own incompetence and partly due to the drop in quality between the original cartoon series and this big screen remake. Reviews from this side of the pond have been kinder, but still generally negative.

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Le Refuge

Francois Ozon's (Time to Leave, 8 Women) latest about a pregnant woman coming to terms with the death of her lover and making an unlikely replacement family with his gay brother seems perfect for his sensitive filming style, that said the trailer and reviews make it seem like naval gazing is the order of the day.

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Secret in their Eyes

Very highly praised and oscar winning Argentinean movie that plays with time jumping back and forth between a an unsolved murder in the 1970's and the prosecuter writing his memoirs about the events surrounding it.

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Socerer's Apprentice

OK so I've rated this higher than the Last Airbender because the reviews have generally been kinder, but frankly this looks like the worse of the two and no amount of Nicolas Cage doing Nicolas Cage can prevent that.

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Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue

Utterly pointless spin-off gets utterly pointless limited cinematic release. I can't imagine why anyone would want to go to see this, even the animation looks uninteresting.

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