Hancock: I had heard that this film was bad, and it has a relatively low score on IMDB (6.6 at time of writing), which, for a superhero film, seems kind of low to me. Anyway, I thought it was interesting – it wasn’t a superhero film in the normal sense. Apart from perhaps the superhero […]
Day: 2009/09/15
Movie: Duck Soup (1933)
Duck Soup: A Marx brothers film. I am sure when I was younger, I used to love Marx brothers films, perhaps because some of the humour really was extremely childish, and you didn’t need to understand what was going on in the story to understand the childish humour. Anyway, I found this very dull, unfortunately. […]
Movie: Harvey (1950)
Harvey: A fairly light hearted comedy at first glance. My memory is already fading, having only watched this film about 4-5 days ago. It was about a character, Elwood P. Dowd, who has an imaginary character. Who you later learn is a 6’3 1/2″ rabbit. And only Elwood can see it. The film is a […]
Movie: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Wow, what a film… An incredibly moving film about a man who is paralysed, except for his left eye, after a stroke. It is based on the true story of the man who is paralysed, written by him too. The film shows how he wrote the book, and how […]