Rendition: I remember seeing a trailer, or something small about this film at the time it came out, and I thought “this seems interesting, I should watch it”. And, it is. It may or may not be based on what happens in reality, but, it seems like it’s definitely within the realms of possibility. It’s […]
Day: 2010/01/13
Film: Being There (1979)
Being There: A film with Peter Sellers in it. I was expecting Pink Panther type humour, which was probably my first mistake. A friend of mine thinks this film is amazing, but I found it very very difficult to get interested, or follow. I understand the character was not all there, but what I didn’t […]
Documentary: Religulous (2008)
Religulous: I think I misunderstood the synopsis on Lovefilm when I read it. It said something about Bill Maher’s commitment to never pulling a punch – which I understood to mean ‘doesn’t go for low blows, or insulting ones’. However, this documentary is rather crude (a friends described it that way, and I think it […]
Film: Hostage (2005)
Hostage: I have to give this film credit – it wasn’t quite what I expected from the relatively lame synopsis. I thought it was just going to be any old action flick, with shit blowing up, and Bruce Willis being an arse kicker. He was, but, not in the way you might have expected. There […]
Film: Terminator Salvation (2009)
Terminator Salvation: It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen this – I’ve just realised I never logged it at the time I watched it in the US, in June 2009. Anyway, I can’t remember a great deal about it anymore, apart from shit blows up, there’s a bad guy, who kinds turns into […]