Posted in Movies on Apr 27th, 2008
The Girl in the Cafe is a television movie about a successful civil servant working hard on the Millennium Goals of the United Nations. When he meets a young woman he falls in love. This movie is about love and how people influence each other. It’s not brilliant, it’s even predictable. But for some reason [...]
Atonement is a very good British romance novel by Ian McEwan. Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit.
Posted in Movies on Sep 5th, 2007
Watching Dark City makes you think you’re watching a mixture of The Matrix and Sin City. While Dark City might not have the finishing touch which is present in both mentioned movies, it does have respectively the “wat-if-the-world-is-not-what-we-think-it-is” story line and the comic scenery.
Posted in Movies on May 12th, 2007
The March of the Penguins or “Marche de l’empereur, La” is a movie about the March of emperor Penguins to their breeding ground. The event is intriguing and the camera work is great, but movies tries to make the penguins more human than they are. You see for example a lot of shot of [...]
Posted in Movies on Jan 27th, 2007
Stuart (Colin Farrell) hasn’t been totally honest. In fact, he’s about the most dishonest man you’ll meet. Everyday, at the same time, he goes to a phone booth in NYC to call his girlfriend (Katie Holmes), so that his wife (Radha Mitchell) can’t trace the phone call. Today is no longer just an ordinary [...]
Penelope Cruz is one of the most attracting women in the Hollywood movie scene. In Volver she’s the absolute center of the movie. And that’s good! She makes the movie worth watching. The strange combination of a very attractive Hollywood star with some unknown mediocre actresses fits in the strange story line. It’s just [...]
Posted in Movies on Jan 20th, 2007
Some things never change. During the Crusades, in the Middle Ages, the Christians and Muslims fought about the holy city of Jerusalem. Kingdom of Heaven is located between the second and third Crusade. To make the situation more interesting, a hero (Orlando Bloom) is created. Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of [...]
Posted in Movies on Jan 19th, 2007
In South Boston, the state police force is fighting Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello’s confidence, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer [...]
Alfred Kinsey wrote a book about “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” in 1948. This was revolutionary in his time.
In 2004 a movie based on his life came out. It’s called Kinsey. If you’re ever thinking about seeing it, don’t. It’s a great disappointment. I saw it unfortunately, but now I’m able to warn you! [...]
Posted in Movies on Dec 30th, 2006
James Bond is back. Daniel Craig is the new 007. Literally. In Casino Royale you get to know how James Bond became 007. Bond movies have always been created to be seen in the cinema. Also in Casino Royale, there are lots of special effects within great action scenes that suck you into the movie [...]