Friday, January 16, 2009

Not the revenge you thought you were getting

After the first hour of Revanche I thought I could tell where everything was headed, but it undermined my expectations, leaving me awestruck by the honesty of its performances.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The Godfather minus all the bits that made you like The Godfather

Gomorrah fails as drama because evil, especially systematic evil, is terribly undramatic.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Oh No! Tom Cruise

Valkyrie is is a collection of many of my favorite character actors given far too little to do, oh and Tom Cruise is in it too.

Instead of the movie diary this year I am going to try to make one sentence reviews of everything I see in 2009. This idea will probably be abandoned as soon as I get bored of it.