imdb: tt1182345 interesting 2/5 bananas.
November 26, 2009
November 19, 2009
Vera Drake
imdb: tt0383694 deals with cultures with no legal abortion rights, such a film provokes much debate and also adds additional costs to a country’s health care budget dealing with any cleanup issues for such countries and aid sponsors who prefer that aids and other diseases go unchecked.
Judgement on this depressing (it is mike liegh after all) film varies from being attacked by the loony godly folk, and the medical profession who take a holier than though religious folk attacking all aspects of the film.
Whoever Vera Drake was based upon those persons where providing a service that was needed, I would argue that the hammy emotional end to the film belittles all women who should have the right to control their reproduction and have rights of universal suffrage (my blog) and not have to submit to some priest who loves to rape a schoolboy or too, or a saint Sigmund freud types and un-approving doctors.
The book freakonominics points some clues to those who seek enlightenment, but keep raping the alter boys catholics after all why stop that since that provides so much ‘relief’.
Bananas rates the film 2/5 bananas.
November 17, 2009
November 12, 2009
a tale of two camps
Charlie and his crack team of zoo security guards as a joke recorded the film imdb tt1055366 (camp rock) for us after I mentioned to them that we* all saw the film imdb tt0342167 (camp made in 2003) on the tv one evening.
Summer camps where never our thing to start with so this strange part of american life that there children do and subsequently filmed into a very sweet and sour version seemed worthy of a blog post here.
Made as an independent film in 2003, camp deals with the more odd members of american teenagers, and shocking dealings with sex and alcoholism, we also discovered that Stephen Sondheim is not dead yet either.
We all liked camp and recommend a view of it. Now on to charlie and camp rock which in many respects is a copy of camp (the first film) which disney made in 2008 but is so sickly sweet, heterosexual plus the kitchen sink thrown in too.
In fact the word corporate would be better as an apparently famous teen manufactured boy pop band also star in this film while they try an independent voice rather than sing covers of hits.
Theres a little amount of bitchiness, and the usual performing song and dance numbers on cue like we all see expect in disney films. Naturally all ends happily ever after – a strange sickly film
Humans we oooked
Anyhow i do recommend a see a camp 2003 for a laugh.
* the monkey house
November 9, 2009
September 28, 2009
Banlieue 13
Or imdb tt0414852 is an interesting french film, and probably available to be bought with shrink wrap for those who like that.
5/5 bananas
September 16, 2009
District 9
you will never look at breath freshner in the same light again
is imdb:tt1136608/ is a south african film (this country is doing some interesting stuff) and really takes some funny digs into nigerians to lighten the load.
The film has various styles, and avoiding the plot holes is an interesting look at humans. Some class acting here.
5/5 bananas.
August 4, 2009
Man on Wire
400 meters up, no worries
is imdb: tt1155592, dealt with Philippe Petit whom is wacky french person and liked doing mad things like tightrope walking between fixed buildings.
Mr Petit is most famous for walking between the twin towers in new york in the 1970’s and as such it is likely to say that he makes your average circus performer look very very lame.
The film (a uk tax payer, and uk national lottery jolly) for somebody detailed how the feats where engineered, and as far as i know this film did not get a cinema release*.
The film brims with energy and certainly makes you think wow even today when it turned up on television on the 2nd of August. It’s not that the buildings don’t exist any more but the spectacle of an amazing event i mean would you walk on a single wire 400 metres high in the air ?
Mr Petit has balls.
5/5 bananas.
* oh who gives a shit ?
July 28, 2009
Persepolis
Graphic Novel now film
Is imdb tt0808417 and something which i have read (my blog) The film from 2007 skates over a lot of the books detail but keeps the key moments in.
Best viewed in french.
3/5 bananas – I preferred the book
July 21, 2009
Låt den rätte komma
not a chicken sexer
or imdb: tt1139797 is a Swedish film.
It is interesting enough for the americans to remake – so see the the original.
4/5 bananas.
