Archive for February, 2007
And the Oscar goes to…
Well, PCMR may have gambled on Clint Eastwood winning best director, but is never one to pass up an opportunity to say ‘told you so’ – waay back in September, I predicted Scorcese would pick up the gong for the excellent ‘The Departed’, and the academy have finally invited Marty to the Oscar p…
Curse of the Golden Flower
The verdict: Excellent epic Shakespearian regal tragedy set in Tang Dynasty China… and it’s got ninjas, bee-atch!The rating: 8/10PCMR’s Recipe for Curse of the Golden FlowerTake two cupfuls of ‘Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon’, and pan-fry with one-third of ‘The Last Emperor’ (finely chopped).Next, …
Quo Vadis, Baby?
To be honest, it’s a while now since I watched Quo Vadis, Baby?, and it hasn’t really stayed with me at all. Much of the instance, whether I don’t write a review straightaway, it’s considering I was uninspired. That’s not always the case, but often.Essentially, that is a film about a female private …
Good Night, And Good Luck.
It was with a degree of trepidation that I approached the George Clooney-helmed Good Night, And Good Luck., so bitterly disappointed had I been with his directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. And on the surface of it, a parallel could easily be drawn amoung the two films.Both movies deal…
Lost Highway
As a longtime David Lynch fan, I have decided to rewatch both Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr. in advance of seeing Inland Empire next month. I’ve previously seen the former twice (once at the cinema and once on DVD); that was my third viewing.I find Lynch movies to be terrifying. Most of the most Ly…
Junebug
I had high hopes for Junebug considering I seemed to read quite a lot of favourable reviews here and there. The story starts with a female gallery owner (or worker, I forget which) meeting a potential art collector and soon after marrying him. On a trip to check out some work by an artist, the pair …
An Inconvenient Truth
American politics is a strange business, as those lucky sufficient to catch ‘The Daily Show’ on a regular basis will attest to all too readily. Although the contentious U.S. presidential election of 2000 may have affirmed that to a global audience, surely no-one can have felt the effect of that ‘dem…
