Mini-Review: Flatliners is the sort of movie whose script has a decent pulse, but somewhere along the line you realise that there's a heart murmur present at the core of this movie inefficiently pumping mediocre Hollywood cliches your way. This review is in a similar vein.
Mini-Review: I'm not sure what to make of the story, but the film is sold well by Penn who owns his character and makes the journey worth watching. Although I believe many actors these days are well instructed on how to portray the best facial expressions when watching an old lady guzzling juice from the carton while a goose is pecking at your arm, I'd easily rank Penn's in the top 5.
Mini-Review: I am probably going to echo most peoples sentiments who jumped onto this one after an Eternal Sunshine entree. Rah, rah, mesmerising visuals, rah rurrhh, stunning camera effects, mutter mutter, Gondry sans Kaufman, grah grrr, writing, story, Kaufman, hmmm, grah, visual journey, bah, story lacking, argh, muck, glar.
Mini-Review: I don't have a great memory for this one, but I feel appropriate to give my score based on that sense rather than the initial stirrings of controversy it raised when it first appeared. To me this is an interesting topic, and the movie as I recall doesn't give much more depth to it or the characters than you could typically expect from Spielberg. In that sense it is something that will fade from memory and lead to poor half-hearted reviews like this one.
Mini-Review: For some time there this movie had me, I enjoyed the way it had been building, the subtle shifts from past to present and the tension and distress felt by Martha. Then it flattened out, nothing more was revealed, and I began to grow weary of it. I felt I needed to be more drawn into the indoctrinating methods and dogma the cult threw at these young people I was left high and dry. The movie became as silent as Martha was. When it "ended" a bemused snort from the audience said it all.
Mini-Review: Now this is how you write a horror film, and damn Kurt Russell you are badass.
Mini-Review: Yes, yes, yes. Echoes is yum, Careful With That Axe Eugene is another beauty, and everything else, the whole lot (without the horribly crusty CGI of the directors cut) is something to behold lovingly for every Floyd fan. If you're not a Floyd fan, then give the peace pipe a whirl and you'll soon find yourself becoming one.
Mini-Review: Yum! Dear Hollywood, thanks.
Mini-Review: It's a classic Bond from the Moore era of campiness. Famous for guns, girls and nipples. The corkscrew car stunt, although one of the most difficult and impressive at the time, is delivered to the screen with the same slapstick schtick as everything else. Not necessarily a good thing, but typical of Moore's time.
Mini-Review: What starts off as positive quickly turns into tripe, and amazingly tripe that is apparently best foreign film at the Academy Awards. Initially Daigo's actions to his wife after the first day in his new job give you the most symbolic and powerful moment of the film, afterwards the award judges must've fallen asleep and not noticed the onslaught of dull cliches and mistimed death misnomers. Not to mention a disturbing moment where Daigo becomes the Andre Rieu of undertaker cellists.