A Review of All Things

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Saturday, November 13, 2004

Collateral

Consider the following premise: you are a taxi driver who has been struggling for years to attain a dream. You consider your current job as temporary but the chance of moving forward is quickly diminishing. Life has become well rehearsed and predictable. One evening a passenger enters your taxi and... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 9, 2004

The Village

Some months ago I saw The Village on the big screen. I suspect my response to M. Night Shyamalan movies is similar to most. The Sixth Sense kept me on the edge of my seat and its final twist was delightfully unexpected. I left the cinema with hopes for a director with the mind twisting capabilities... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 4, 2004

Hero

Hero is not primarily a martial arts movie. It is a beautifully composed exploration of the theme of humility in response to the truth that resides in the heart. In the fight sequences combative rage is pitted against peace, stillness is more prevalent than ferocious action, beauty prevails over... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 2, 2004

Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation has become a favorite movie for me. I saw it in the cinema and later watched it again as a DVD. I tend to be won over by movies that tell the story of significant experiences that occur through simple moments, the weaving together of people through arbitrary encounters, moments... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, October 31, 2004

Godsend

As far as I’m concerned the degree of scariness of a movie is indicated by the number of times I squint my eyes (a visual delusion of safety) and jump in my seat. Godsend hit the mark on both these measures. It’s the story of a couple who lose their eight year old son in a freak accident and then... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, October 29, 2004

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate is a clever transposition of the original, cold war psychological thriller into our present times. This is a movie about hidden influences, mind control, the burial of historical truth, political machinations and the beneficial gains that are made by some whenever there's a... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

The Punisher

I took this dvd out last night anticipating a couple of hours of engagement with a shadowy and psychologically gripping narrative, something along the lines of the first Batman movie (before that franchise degenerated into high camp self-parody). In reality watching The Punisher left me pondering... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, October 24, 2004

The Fog of War

In the midst of the current plethora of documentaries that are hitting the big screen and the dvd shops there is one which I’d like to mention. It’s a visually well crafted and thought provoking film, now out on dvd, entitled the Fog of War. Robert McNamara was a significant figure in the later part... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, October 21, 2004

The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Supremacy is a rare follow up movie in that it’s fast paced qualities actually match, or even surpass, the first film in the series, The Bourne Identity. Sure this movie serves up the basic plot of a renegade central character, pushed to the brink and with nothing left to lose, running... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Three Colours Blue and Symphonic Freedom

Three Colours Blue is a magnificent film produced by Krzystof Kieslowski and starring Juliette Binoche. It was released in 1993. This is a film worth watching if you have ever been drawn back from the depths of oblivion by being touched, at a crucial moment, by beauty and the stirring insistence of... Sign in to see full entry.

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