MEAN and MASSIVE

The first episode of Boardwalk Empire on HBO last week was something we all waited for since The Sopranos ended. It’s surprising HBO chose a topic so similar to that of The Sopranos, and backed it up with many of the original series crew. But after watching the first episode of Boardwalk Empire, I’m pretty [...]

I seriously start to believe that the Oscar nominations for Best Foreign are part of a conspiracy. Hollywood wants to prove the world that they make the best movies, so they use the Oscar to demonstrate their point. If this film won, probably the others are worse, which means they suck. Otherwise I can’t explain [...]

I must start at the end here: I loved the ending of this film. It is one thing that makes the Coen brothers so special for me, that makes me really hope they will make more and more (independent) films. They use the medium, the know what we feel and what we expect. This ending [...]

After reading the review in The New Yorker magazine I’ve decided Up In The Sky is the movie I want to see most now. It will make me love George Clooney much more, and I really do want to love this guy more. First of all, he’s in the Coen Brothers gang, and I love [...]

It’s kind of rare to fall in love with two actors in one film. It happened to me last night while watching An Education, I couldn’t help falling in love with Peter Sarsgaard and Carey Mulligan. The movie is a beautiful love story that ends up as a stupid bad lie story. He’s around 40, [...]

First I must say I watched this movie as a screener online. This fact changes things, of course. This movie is based on a high concept idea (the first man to tell a lie) but It looked to me like it was made in modesty. I mean the tone of the film, but the quality [...]

Seriously, if the Hollywood people looked at Zooey Deschanel and all they could come up with was their next Meg Ryan, they really need some Acid boost to their imagination. Anyway, I have no idea why this movie made such a buzz. Is it because the boy doesn’t get the girl at the end (but [...]

Ken Loach’s new film, Looking for Eric, has it all: it makes you laugh, it makes you jump in your chair in surprise, hold your breathe in anxiety – it’s a romantic comedy, it’s drama, it’s dramedy, it’s action. And it does everything very well, with that sense of reality only British films can have [...]

From the director of The Place Promised In Our Early Days, this one is an earlier film. It is split into two short films, but it is one story. The animation is impressionist, so moody and delicate. The story told is interesting and I never felt like I was watching a film: I was right [...]

From the outside this seems like an immigrant romantic story of love and despair. But actually this is the story of a man that feels he’s not right in place, that he’s not man enough, that he’s a loser. And one night this changes. The hope love gives, this is what it’s all about. I [...]

Ip Man, the master of Bruce Lee, helps the Chinese defeat the Japanese. OK, that bomb on Hiroshima had a part, too.

Original moments that are lost in too many side plots – in Shrink with Kevin Spacey.

Too many uses of the same scriptwriting device, and again John Malkovich saves the day.

The Antichrist of Von Treier takes him back to the roots of horror.

Best LCD scene of all times. With Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee almost succeeds to bring us back to the Ice storm.

Where did Story A go?

Ajami is a docu-like Israeli film, which tries to be too much, instead of enjoining being small. But go, see for yourself.

Violence is a never ending chain. A British film that presents a fantastic cast and beautiful strong story.

The Jewish legend, the Coen brothers legend, a movie legend.

No. This cannot be a good movie.