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Blackjack - I really have to recommend that you watch Brick. It was one of my favourites from last year. Cracking noir dialogue set in a suburban high school. Definitely worth a watch.
Cheers mate, I'm sure I'll get round to it one of these days. I'll give myself a good talking to...
Caught the last half of Tony Richardson's Ned Kelly the other night. Mick Jagger was hilariously dreadful as Kelly, and the effect of having folk songs from the time being sung by an American (Waylon Jennings) was weird and jarring.
The script, the acting, the costumes, pretty much everything about the production was half-baked. Check it out if you need a laugh.
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'Reign Over Me' with Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler. CheeZAY (as Ken would put it) but sweet film about friendship and mental illness and dentistry, you know, the usual...
'Shark Zone'....one of those 79 baht treasures in the really thin cases you find at the back of the shop...so bad it was actually enjoyable in that head-shaking way...
Experienced Diver One: "The Great White is only white underneath. It's mostly grey to camouflage itself from its prey."
Sicko: was pretty shocking some of the stories that were on the movie. It also brought up a lot of interesting topics. Michael Moore, on the other hand drives me abousolutely crazy.
American Gangster: I thought it was awesome. Denzel, Russell Crowe, and Ridley Scott... a great combination.
I watched Shattered with Pierce Brosnan the lovely Maria Bello and Gerard Butler....not bad at all!
War (Rogue Assassin (sp?))...was okay!
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As above, I thought American Gangster was great. Denzel is excellent, and its a real return to form by Russell Crowe, who was one of my favorite actors anyway. And Ridley Scott's direction is superb. Definitely one of the best movies I've seen in recent times.
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Happened upon "Dig!" on UBC the other night, a wonderful "fly-on-the-wall" documentary paralleling the careers of American bands The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
At times it almost seems to topple into parody of the rock'n'roll lifestyle and rock'n'roll documentary (who needs Spinal Tap when you can watch the real thing?), which makes it all the more compelling. Fascinating and thoroughly recommended.
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^ that fella from the Brian Jonestown Massacre was a bit 'out there'.
Good doco but neither of the bands were as 'revolutionary' as they were made out to be - the fight scenes were OK tho'. Dandy warhols are an OK pop band, might have to investigate the other to see what the hype was about (other than the fact that they fought, fucked and took drugs a lot).
Saw 24hr party people the other week - twas good too.
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Good doco but neither of the bands were as 'revolutionary' as they were made out to be
Absolutely mate (one of the many unwitting parodic elements of the thing), but that's part of the rock'n'roll myth isn't it?
Ever since the Velvet Underground you can't just be an indie band who didn't quite make it, you have to be self-destructive, criminally unrecognised geniuses too artistically "pure" for the mainstream.
I missed the beginning of it and I swear that for quite a while I really did think it was a parody!
Rock'n roll, you gotta love it.
PS I like the Dandys.
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Over at Variety, Todd McCarthy was in agreement: "Cormac McCarthy's bracing and brilliant novel is gold for the Coen brothers, who have handled it respectfully but not slavishly, using its built-in cinematic values while cutting for brevity and infusing it with their own touch. Result is one of the their very best films, a bloody classic of its type destined for acclaim and potentially robust B.O. returns upon release later in the year." Argh, who wants to wait until November?? Then again, only a fool would release a Coen film in the middle of the summer.
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yup it's based on that book.