(500) Days of Summer does something that more Hollywood romantic comedies should do: It starts at the end. It tells us up front that “this is not a love story”. Before the opening credits roll, we already feel something for these characters because we know this isn’t going to be your conventional rom-com that ends [...]
A Tarantino world is graphic, disturbing and drawn-out. It’s also fascinating, original and just plain fun. His latest film, Inglourious Basterds, is no different. The movie is broken up into five chapters and for the whole two and a half hour running time, I never took my eyes off the screen. Not during the brutal [...]
Going into this film, I expected what the trailers portrayed which was basically just another Superbad style raunchy comedy. Instead, I got a thoughtful tale of first love and the reality of being a twenty-something fresh out of university and unemployed (more so in the current economic climate.) This is Greg Mottola’s next film after [...]
Based on the trailers, I was dreading seeing this film, as it looked like a shallow dull romantic movie with a *ahem* ‘clever’ twist in the form of the time traveller. However, I was very pleased to find, within ten minutes of the film starting, that it was clear that I was wrong; it was a complex movie, looking at various problems/blessings that the main character’s condition meant.