博文

目前显示的是标签为“Music and Movies”的博文

The Debt review

图片
John Madden's Mossad agent thriller starring Helen Mirren fails to find its balance between past and present, despite a strong cast and an interesting premise The Debt is a period thriller told in two chunks. We open in Tel Aviv in 1997, where the daughter of two ex-Mossad agents (Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson) is launching a book venerating the mission on which her parents met: the celebrated capture of a Nazi war criminal in 1960s Berlin. Director John Madden ( Shakespeare in Love , Killshot ) then moves the action back to 1966 to tell the story of the agents’ pursuit and capture of “the surgeon of Birkenau” in Cold War Germany. It’s this 1966 slice where the film sparks with an engaging premise, an atmospheric

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 review

图片
The final part of the saga has arrived, but can it survive the hype? Here's our review... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 isn't an ordinary summer blockbuster, or that's what you've been led to believe under assault of all the excitement surrounding it. Seven books, eight films, and ten years since the boy wizard emerged on screen, this is the big finish, but can it live up to the hype? We begin right in the thick of the action, nothing but a brief reminder of Part 1 's finale to initiate non-fans. There is the overwhelming sense here that those who've just come by to check what all the fuss is about will have to learn quickly, as this isn't a film for beginners. Even an established continuity is dispensed with, as characters who went missing a while ago are present and correct, inside jokes are told with no explanation, and small character moments take precedence over action. This follow-up to November's Part 1 follows Harry...

Sherlock (TV Series 2010– )

图片
I have to say two things turned me off. First is the idiot reviewer on the front page who feels the need to use 70% of his review(even titled it "Eat Your Heart Out Naruto"-really subtle) to bash Naruto like some insecure 12 year old spoiled brat fan boy. Pathetic. The second was that it sounded like some Gothic action anime from others. However when I finally saw it I thought, meh, okay. However as it went on I got more and more drawn in. The plot is simple enough to start:successful and brilliant student Light stumbles upon the Death Note, which will kill anyone who's name he writes down provided it's their real name and he knows his face. He experiments with it and sees that it's real. He plays with the other rules all the while killing other criminals and meeting up with the shinigami who wrote the death note. The deaths of these criminals does not go unnoticed as the renound and

Se7en (1995)

图片
Seldom does a film elucidate the culpability of our culture,of our society, in the mayhem and madness we often find in everyday life. According to Se7en, our culture is drifting through darkness. The mouthpiece for this thematic undercurrent is Somerset, a literate man who also happens to be a detective, a man who can read a clue ("This isn't going to be a happy ending") or Dante's Inferno with equal aplomb. He even provides the film's final thematic statement with a quote from Hemingway. His quirkiness, perhaps

lotita

图片
Not the two words that came to mind when I first read the book. This movie nicely handles the taboo subject matter and is tremendously funny as well. Peter Sellers was warming up for his triumph in Dr. Strangelove, Shelly Winters gave her best performance, and James Mason made us feel his pain. As Lolita, Sue Lyon is convincing although Kubrick makes her character a bit older (probably to satisfy the censors, which still slapped this with an

Rosemary's Baby

图片
Why aren't the horror directors of today as careful with their scripts as Polanski was? Not that this is really horror. Horror as we know it came into being with the slasher flicks of the late 1970s and early 1980s; "Rosemary's Baby" is rather the kind of thing that the term "dark fantasy" was coined to describe, by people of taste who noticed that the word "horror" promised audiences something distinctly unpleasant and nasty.   The film's construction is marvellous. Things start slow - one beat, so to speak, to a bar - and gradually pick up speed so that by the end we are nervously tapping out semiquavers with our feet. Polanski also understands the gentle art of hint-dropping. Many events are filed away as tiny puzzles to be solved later, and they ARE solved later; others we don't attach any particular significance to at the time Polanski invites us to re-interpret in retrospect, AND chooses the right moment to let us ...

Musta jää Review

图片
One of the better commercial Finnish films of the last decade, "Musta jää" is a tight love triangle with unexpectable plot line. At many times (and quite surprisingly) it is almost hitchcockian in atmosphere, as you always know a little bit more than any of the characters - and in the end, the whole plot seems to be about masquerade à la "North by Northwest" or "Vertigo", with one of the main characters slowly turning into the character he/she performs. Although the film suffers from few unnecessary sex

You Don't Know Jack

"You don't apperceive jack" is one of the greatest cine of 2010. It Shows the activity of Jack Kevorkian. If you bethink the 90s than you should accept a account of Dr Jack Kevorkian in your mind. He was just as acclaimed as any cine star. He was the circadian accountable of medical discussion, The Cine Shows what absolutely was the ambition of Dr Jack Kevorkian and how he appear endless humans from their misery. Barry Levinson directed the cine amazingly, and as for the achievement Every one performed excellent. But Al Pacino Absolutely blanket the show, he accepted why he is advised the greatest of all time by many. He absent over 20 pounds for this cine and developed a anatomy so altered than what he originally posses. Its amazing that he was able to cull of such a physically ambitious assignment at the age of 70. AL out did himself with anniversary and every scene. John Goodman, Brenda Vaccaro, Danny Huston, Susan Sarandon, Cotter artisan and Logan all di...

Forrest Gump

Who or what is Forrest Gump? Is he a simpleton? An idealist? A moral paragon? In this cine it's added adapted to call him as what he isn't. Forrest lives in a apple that derides him as brainless but, as Mrs Gump says, "stupid is as brainless does", and in this cine it's the added characters who assume able with stupidity: Jenny stumbles from one bad cruise to another, Lieutant Dan loses his legs, again his apperception at war, while everybody abroad seems to appoint in acts of adamant and adverse idiocy. All through this Forrest is the constant: he sees the apple in simple terms, absorbed on accomplishing the appropriate thing. In this cine it's not Forrest that's retarded; it's the blow of the world. Forrest Gump mentions and addresses abounding of the acute American wounds of the 20th century: Vietnam, relationships with African-Americans, drugs, commercialism and the abusage of women. Naturally Forrest himself takes the about cocked ba...

The Splendid Attire Of Michael Jackson

图片
Michael Jackson is extravaganct in dress.The costume of MJ is peculiar,flamboyant and bright.They're very beautiful and full of imagination. But I never read an article about that,although I surf internet in search of Michael Jackson’costume. Some like metal armour,some like the magidian dressing.Iam overwhelmied by his costume.But they're all beautiful,right?  The costumes are match up with MJ's

LET IT BE

图片
when i find myself in times of trouble, mother mary comes to me speaking words of wisdom, let it be and in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me speaking words of wisdom, let it be let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be whisper words of wisdom, let it be and when the broken hearted people living in the world agree there will be an answer, let it be for though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see there will be an answer, let it be let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be there will be an answer, let it be