We went out to the local cinema to see Seven Psychopaths tonight. Here’s how IMDb describes the film… A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster’s beloved Shih Tzu. Peculiar? You bet. Goofy? Sometimes.… Read More
Off to the movies again. This time we watched End of Watch. I guess you’d call it an action thriller with obsessive use of handheld cameras. What can I say about this film? It is not the feel-good movie of the year Most used word… Read More
This afternoon we trundled out to our local cinema to see The Master, the new Paul Thomas Anderson film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie Quell, a shell-shocked, hard-drinking WWII veteran lost after the war, who wanders onto… Read More
Tuffy P bought a DVD copy of a film called M. Lazhar and tonight we watched it. It’s a Quebec film in French and we watched it with English subtitles. M. Lazhar had a limited run in theatres in the spring. Here’s a synopsis from… Read More
I remember the paperback on my father’s nightstand, binding bent back, pages frayed. He loved to read, and especially he loved to read these spy novels. We ventured out to see the film adaptation this afternoon. The first thing I noticed was the colour and… Read More
*spoiler alert* On the strength of mostly excellent reviews, we trundled off to our local movie house to see Super 8. There are some positives. The kids were well cast, and the first half hour or so of the film was nicely done. Beyond that,… Read More
We went to see Limitless tonight on the strength of a review we heard on the radio. Actually, Lincoln Lawyer was our first choice but it was full, but we were prepared with Limitless as a backup. I’m going to call it a fun actioner… Read More
Having recently seen the now 70 year old Levon Helm in concert at Massey Hall, we decided to take another look at The Last Waltz, the Scorsese directed documentary of The Band’s 1976 concert extravaganza at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. I was 18… Read More
Tuffy P and I trundled off to see The Adjustment Bureau the other day. It stars Matt Damon and I thought that was promising since I enjoyed the Bourne series of films. It’s apparently loosely based on a Philip K. Dick short story which I… Read More
I didn’t see Pirate Radio when it was on the big screen, but enjoyed watching it with Tuffy P tonight on DVD. It’s an enjoyable romp with a good mid-60s soundtrack, set on a pirate radio ship off the British coast in the 1960s. It’s… Read More
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