I equally could've have titled this post as "It's all so quiet" due to the amazing lack of films being released. With just five features, excluding docs, you would've though the choice of what to watch would be relatively easy, however low volumes also means the probability of a high scoring (on the runs like a gay excitometer) release is lower and this week we see three films battling for the top spot. In the end though it go to 80's throwback Super 8.
Super 8
J.J. Abrams channels his inner Spielberg with this paean to a bygone age of teens messing around with film equipment and bumping into monsters. US reviews and box office performance was solid rather than spectacular, however this should rekindle buried memories and provide a bit of harmless nostalgia as well as the obligatory summer action highs.
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Sarah's Key
French hangwringing about collaboration with the Nazis is de rigeur these days with the second film to confront the deportation of Jews from Paris this year (after Round Up). Kristin Scott Thomas is the familiar face this time, and the plotting, which alternates between wartime and now seems unusual at least.
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The Tree
More oscar bait weepiness with Charlotte Gainsbourg as a grieving widow, her daughter who's convinced her Father's soul is protecting her from within a nearby tree and the plummer that enters their life. Elegant but probably missable.
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Mr. Popper's Penguins
Jim Carrey continues his long long walk to the loneliness of direct to DVD movies with this inoffensive but dull looking adaptation of the well known children's book. You wouldn't know it from the trailer but Angela Lansbury co-stars.
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Do Aur Do Paanch
Bollywood action comedy about two rival kidnappers who select the same target and ends up spoiling both their plans. Oddly they choose to kidnap a young girl from school which does give this a fairly unpleasant whiff about it.
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Showing posts with label Angela Lansbury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angela Lansbury. Show all posts
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They Don't Make 'em like they Used to (Out this week - 05/08/11)
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Angela Lansbury
Happy Birthday to
Angela Lansbury
84 today
Not only has Angela won countless awards for her work on the stage and large and small screens, but she also holds the destinction of spearheading the world's longest running detective series. Between 1984 and 1996, with 7 additional years of one offs Jessica Fletcher unmasked nearly 300 mass murderers, not bad for a Miss Marple knock off.
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