Film ratings

"You got foolied, outlander!"

  • Film ratings [17]: It’s Not Complicated

    The return of Film Ratings! Unfortunately, because a lot of films had to be skipped, I was left with a lot of mediocre films. Terminator Salvation, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and It’s Complicated are just three major disappointments on schedule here.

  • 2009 in Film: The Best-of Edition

    A year ago, if you had asked me which film would win the 82nd Academy Awards top-prize, I would have answered that Nine was most definitely one of the contenders. The Weinstein Company had a sure-fire winner on their release schedule. An Academy Award-winning director with a Best Picture musical in his name; a cast [...]

  • Film ratings [15/16]

    “You! Yeah, you in the suit! Take a shower, hippie!”— Carl Fredricksen Carl Fredricksen is one of the most endearing characters in recent film history. He’s a grumpy old and eccentric man who loved his wife beyond everything. And he hates people who bother him. (Who doesn’t?) It also helps that Fredricksen was partly based [...]

  • Film ratings [13/14]

    “Are you kidding me? RoboCop?!”— Anchorwoman There is only one good scene in RoboCop 3; an anchorwoman recites the fabricated news that RoboCop has once again killed a lot of people. Then, in the best performance of the film, her face turns to puzzlement and, while standing up, she shouts to her colleague, “C’mon, this [...]

  • Film ratings [12]

    “People like Sheba think they know what it is to be lonely. But of the drip, drip of the long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. What it’s like to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the launderette. Or to be so chronically untouched that the accidental brush of a bus conductor’s hand sends [...]

  • Film ratings [11]

    Studio Ghibli took over this week with My Neighbour Tortoro, Princess Mononoke and My Neighbours the Yamadas. Also this week, Confessions of a Shopaholic disappointed, Yes Man failed, and Audrey Hepburn was enchanting.