A lawyer of questionable morals, a customer too rich to be honest, entertaining scenario, a staged without dead time: the series B still remains beautiful. What’s good with the thrillers of Michael Connelly, is that if they do not reinvent the wheel, they are mostly extremely well put together. One to make you want to [...]
Exciting though repetitive game nearly two hours of the controller of entertainment Zack Snyder, “Sucker Punch” gives power to women who are fighting in the macho world. Big delirium in perspective for fans of container and non-content. Babydoll (Emily Browning) was interned in a psychiatric hospital by her stepfather. Before completely losing her reason and [...]
Icarus transposed to New York, “Limitless” is a meditation on the hyperactive power and invincibility. A trip sometimes a little too scattered. Eddie (Bradley Cooper) is a writer stuck for inspiration. His faculties when he reached the zenith of downing NZT. Using this drug, he easily climbed the social ladder, attracting the interest of the [...]
You’ve probably already heard of online rental service LOVEFiLM. You may have also heard rumours of the things which make LOVEFiLM so unique – all your rentals are dealt with quickly and efficiently online, and delivered to your door. The thing that surprises most though is that LOVEFiLM offer rentals with no fixed contract on [...]
Pastiche of the great majority of alien movies of the past 30 years, “Paul” is a delirious comedy promised great things. The trip, funny and irresistible as it is, probably could be even greater if the desire to please everyone is not as pronounced. Graeme (Simon Pegg) and Clive (Nick Frost) are two teenagers in [...]
There is everything in Battle LA. But so much of everything that this blockbuster tribute to the guys in the Marines quickly becomes indigestible. Around the world, coasts are beset by strange and very nasty critters descended from the sky in much ugly vessels. In Santa Monica, near Los Angeles, a group of Marines is [...]
Classics have thick skin and they stand the test of time and changes. This is the case of milling the 2011 “Jane Eyre”, a dramatic adaptation, but a little boring and the disembodied masterpiece of Charlotte Bronte. 164 years after his birth, the myth of “Jane Eyre” still fascinates. This cruel story about unhappy childhood [...]
Polish author and film from a tight premise own action feature films, “Essential Killing” by Jerzy Skolimowski is not always good to assemble the puzzle pieces in spite of its final thrilling and relevant. An exercise in style, simply. From the desert to snowy regions. A man without an identity (Vincent Gallo) is a fugitive. [...]
Closing film of the last edition of the Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois, “The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom” Tara Johns is a chronicle of all gentle girl who wakes up to what is happening around her … and even in her own body. Well done but not surprised. Convinced that her mother is Dolly [...]
After a decade out of fuel, the Farrelly brothers find themselves still overwhelmed by events. Although it contains some passages comic, “Hall Pass” never really reaches its cruising speed. What could be so funny is ultimately far too wise and peaceful. Life after so many years of marriage may seem long and monotonous. Especially for [...]
