An Education, set in 1960s London, focuses on the life of a 16 year old school girl studying to get into Oxford University. Everything is ticking over nicely for young Jenny (the fantastic Carey Mulligan) until one days she meets the slick talking, sportscar driving David (Peter Sarsgaard) one rainy day after school. David charms [...]
I went into the screening of this movie with really high hopes and was left slightly deflated. The film is clearly more upbeat that Mr Mendes’ last films (Revolutionary Road, Road to Perdition etc) I still found it a little tedious at times. When I watched the trailer I thought this was going to be [...]
Julie and Julia plays on the similarities of two women who live two very different lives in two very different eras. The one thing, the overwhelming thing, the two women have in common is that they’re both looking for something to do, something that’s both fulfilling and matters to them. Julia Child (Meryl Streep), the [...]
Julie and Julia plays on the similarities of two women who live two very different lives in two very different eras. The one thing, the overwhelming thing, the two women have in common is that they’re both looking for something to do, something that’s both fulfilling and matters to them. Julia Child (Meryl Streep), the [...]
(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.