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

    Filed in Film ratings on March 17th, 2010

    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.

  • Film ratings [15/16]

    Filed in Film ratings on June 28th, 2009

    “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]

    Filed in Film ratings on June 7th, 2009

    “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]

    Filed in Film ratings on May 20th, 2009

    “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]

    Filed in Film ratings on May 9th, 2009

    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.

  • Film ratings [10]

    Filed in Film ratings on April 26th, 2009

    A week that started on an awful note, with Testosterone and Death Race, but one which ended on the uttermost of excellent notes, with two Merchant Ivory productions (Howards End and Maurice).