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 | Resident Evil: Afterlife (Film)full on - Bunny Starrsurprisingly no one has notd the in-joke about prison break.. honestly... good action woeful script.. george romero must be awaiting a timely death to rotate in a zombie grave... umbrella corporation - please - like patrick mcgoohan in the prisoner.. etc etc and the implication that we are all imprisoned by big corporations .. it would be unfair to say it more ... |
 | The Ghost (Film)most will miss the message - Bunny StarrAs the film develops at a running pace.. this is Polanski in "chinatown" gear.. fast deceptive and politically and socially intuitive..it is also a postmodern class in the study of some lesser known works, not least Defence of the Realm, and even some hints at the Big Lebowski, and a scene some will recognise as one similar from Pulp Fiction.. more ... |
 | Perrier's Bounty (Film)sparkling .. like the award - Bunny StarrSo the other reviewers didn't like it.. too bad!! First off.. our brillaint homegrown talent has yet to be mentioned - David Holmes, who is responsible for some great soundtracks such as the Ocean's 11 etc.. Fans of his albums like "bow down to be exit sign" and the bestselling "Let's get Killed" will notice a different direction with greater lyrical more ... |
 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Film)more exciting than a viking raid - bunny starthe main reason anyone should review a film is to say they are reviewing a film NOT comparing it to tyhe book whcih is lazy elitist and showing off.. the film which this reviewer saw at its debut at the JDIFF, was so good i went to it again, on a date last night, and had to travel to do so.... and what one notices in hte second viewing is that the film is more ... |
 | Quiet Chaos (Film)charming and simple to the point of genius - Bunny StarrMoretti - known for his amusing offerings such as Dear Diary and Aprile - proved he could do serious stuff with The Son's Room. It is in the latter vein that he portrays a grieving husband in Chaos Calma, with some vignettes of his earlier work and its lighter touches. It is disciplined indeed having been an auteur to be an actor simpliciter, however the more ... |
 | Harry Brown (Film)cocoon and taxi driver meet fish tank - Bunny StarrDaniel Barber opens with a review of council estate living in East London high rises but it could be anywhere. The opening is paced and thoughtful and gets gradually grittier. Caine's performance is superb, his patience and social conscience from Cider House Rules mixes well with his tough guy image from his earlier Harry Palmer and Zulu roles: a gentleman more ... |
 | Jennifer's Body (Film)humanna humanna .. hello! - bunny starpredictable but nonetheless entertaining.. the band members of "low shoulder" and the relationships protrayed in the school are as m uch a commentary on contemporary society as a vehicle of entertainment.. "of course it's true, it's on Wikipedia". Yes there are some typical zombie-like demon-laden scenes for your delectation and this more ... |
 | Fish Tank (Film)- bunny starThe Dutch producer of the Cook the Thief his Wife and Her Lover, Kees Kassander shows that he still has an eye for the cutting edge of British Arthouse, and director Andrea Arnold proves that she was more than a one trick pony. There is a superb performance from Katie Jarvis playing 15 year old Mia in a dysfunctional single parent family with a drunk mother more ... |
 | Waveriders (Film)Mucho surf.. stoked! - Bunny StarrSome films are meant to be seen on the big screen! This is no Big Wednesday, the major stars here are the waves. Starting from the story of the humble, understated, selfless and decent Irish-Hawaian George Freeth, whose story of bringing surfing back to life in the 1900s and stimulating the growth of the US Lifeguard, the growth of the Sport from his more ... |
 | Gran Torino (Film)vintage - Bunny Starrwho remembers vanishing point..? Kowalski, the american dream hero driving across the desert... coincidence .. perhaps... eastwood growls but says nothing for the first five or so minutes.. his classic "less is more" style of tough guy.. every character from his Fistful of Dollars to Million Dollar Baby comes out in his portrayal as Walter.. a lot more ... |
 | American Teen (Film)better than the average bear - bunny starexcellent study of small twon america and how it reflects the bigger picture.. how the top stays on top.. bullying and privilege and pull the antithesis of the american dream and how so few get through the filter.. e.g. a basketball scholarship... this is not as pleasant and innocuous as it may seem ,.. the film a la cinema veritee shows some real issues more ... |
 | Brideshead Revisited (Film)it focuses on what the book is about..Converting to Catholicism and the search for our own true identity - Bunny StarrMany reviewers will compare with the mini series, first mistake. Now, how many people know anything about Waugh's life, his background and his other writings? The vomitting episode actually took place when waugh was at oxford [ a result of the induction into the Bullingdon club of which Michael Cameron, Boris Johnson, and George Osbourne were in theior more ... |
 | Dean Spanley (Film)giggle out loud - Bunny Starrwitty ... vintage O'Toole.. superb performances from Brown Neill and Northam... the quick quips are very much of the Wilde or Noel Coward oeuvre, and for that alone the film is a must see.. and for those who have had tokaji, [hungarian desert wine once known as the wine of kings and king of wines - vinum regum rex vinorum] the film is a gem.. the use of the more ... |
 | Che Part I (Film)viva la revolution - Bunny Starrthe use of flahsback from the New York visit including the famous speech to the UN, is interesting and makes a perfect backdrop.. it was his greatest hour in the public eye - a successful revolutionary having beaten US backed Batista and seen as the main man behind Castro's success... the genuine feeling for humanity and justice is clear, and Soderberg more ... |
 | Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (Film)it's supposed to be serious.. - Bunny Starrthe same director as Christiane F.. and a real biopic about thye leading members of teh Red Army Faction who reacted against the possible resurgence of fascism in the uise of american invoilvement in vietnam and the support of the west german government for the former iranian administration.. the film works on many levels ... what is important for an irish more ... |
 | 32A (Film)a coming of age flick with a difference - Bunny StarrSome may remember coming of age movies like "the breakfast club", "puberty blues", "if", "dead poet's society" etc.. but this one has got something for everyone in the audience.. .. it is funny, sad, compelling but above all shows how with a directoral and acting debut some people just have what it takes to slide an more ... |
 | Eagle Eye (Film)it's here.. it's good and its fast - Bunny Starrtouches of bourne... fast conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this one.. the computer takes over in the style 2001 a space oddessey.. tries to shut down government and protect the US constitution...watch and learn.. an FX feast for those who love all the ngadgets adn technos stuff.. and a good performance from rosario dawson fresh from her role more ... |
 | Pineapple Express (Film)dude, where's my plot - Bunny Starrfor those who are worried about stoner flicks like harold and kumar, this is .... ahm.... man.. like dude, "you're not my friend, you're my drug dealer"... the chlicheed gags about weed, the munchies, how good some stuff is .. etc. etc.... pineapple express is a name or brand of weed.. and there's a wonderful selection of chasing, maiming, more ... |
 | Midnight Meat Train (Film)fast grim horrorcoaster - Bunny Starrok clive barker is well known for hellraiser and his earlier books like weaveworld... this is one of his most bloody tales... Vinne jones plays a butcher, vinnie doesn't say anything until the end, and is menacing and thuggish.. he hacks up people as well as beef in new yoorks meat packing district [herron street], the same area as the fashionable more ... |
 | Gomorrah (Film)a mixture of stylism and realism, not for the faint hearted - Bunny StarrFirstly this is based on a true story about the Camorrah, a Neapolitan equivalent of the mafia... secondly it is meant to be horrifying... so la docle vita it is not.. Now.. you can sit back and take in the agression, the unease, discomfort, confusion frustration... references early on are somewhat apt and disturbing... the low price of human life is more ... |
 | A Film With Me In It (Film)a fine example of yogic breathing.. ted - Bunny StarrAn Amusing skit.. of beckettesque ridiculousness.... moran plays a character not unlike flann o brien in real life... the unfortunate series of accidents is done with moribund eclat... it is black humour at its best... darkly comic in the same way as the 3rd policeman and other similar bizarre tales in the flann o brien mode.... most people will miss the more ... |
 | Bangkok Dangerous (1999) (Film)excellent - Bunny Starrhave seen this on the festival arthouse circuit before... intelligent and orginal, using a disability as a form of superpower,( see the spaghetti westerns by Sergio Corbucci such as Minnesota Clay or the masterful and much underrated The Great Silence)...there is also the cultural starkness about loyalty, family and naked capitalism... thuis movie reaches more ... |
 | Paris (Film)en seine - Bunny StarrFor those who remember Rob Altman's Short Cuts, this is a parisian version: it's, as smart, funnier and better cinematography. The film is about love, loss and how everyone interacts on one level with each other but also how each is part of and re-acts with the city, from Laurient's student femme fatale, to the fishmongers, the models to the illegal more ... |
 | Female Agents (Film)Surpisingly moving - Bunny StarrThis is a welcome development form Jean Paul Salome. The acting is good with the exceptions of the minor characters whcoih don;t really seem to be at the races. There are highs and lows in the well crafted and well directed historical drama. Based on a true story about the events preceeding the D Day landings. The commitment of the resistance and more ... |
 | Teeth (Film)ouch - Bunny StarrThe scion of Pop artist, Roy Lichtenstein, Mitchell proves there is a genius gene. Jess Weixler's performance is brilliant. There is as much social commentary on American Society as Easy Rider, but with more satire: and a greater comment on the fundamentalist right than Thank You for Smoking, or Bob Roberts. Imagine Dawn as a Ghia/ Mother Earth figure and more ... |
 | A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (Film)more fun than a barrel of monkeys - Bunny StarrDone in the mockumentary mode of spinal tap, this is a refreshingly amusing offering from Hot Fuzz's Chris Waitt. this is not what would be classed as a family film. The humour is predictable though priceless. The adventure all men who have "been dumped" go through in their heads every now and again is brought home simile modo to "High more ... |
 | Welcome to the Sticks (Film)herro, de pipple talk funny - Bunny Starrit could be set in England Ireland the USA India or anywhere in the world, the truths and situations are universal. Do we not make fun of people from Dublin Belfast Cork or Donegal? The acting is excellent, adn the plot and characters reach levels of hilarity heretofore unseen from France since the Taxi series. Well worth the few shillings admission. It more ... |
 | The Devil Wears Prada (Video)it's a long way from - Bunny StarrAn amusing slight on the desparate venom whcih permeates the upper eschelons of the fashion industry, without the cleverness or charm of Altman's Pret a Porter. How much would you do for your boss? How much does your job mean? How far are you willing to go to win your boss's approval...? Is any job worth that much? It raises some interesting though bland more ... |
 | Lars and the Real Girl (Film)shamelessly funny - Bunny StarrRyan Gosling proves yet agin the breadth of his skill in this offbeat yet thought provoking film from the great white north. The film asks the audience to accept and laugh rather than judge and laugh. Lars' psychological complexity seems to arise form his inability to accept the death of his parents, and the impending new arrival from his brother and his more ... |
 | The Departed (Video)comfortably numb - Bunny StarrSome say that Scorsese is master, others view him as good but a bit of an anorak. This lacks the immediacy or pace of mean streets or taxi driver, nonetheless it is a wonderful and compelling film. De Caprio's character is complex and real: Nicholson plays with his inimitable menace; and Damon shows that he is not just a broody action hero. All of the more ... |
 | Love in the Time of Cholera (Film)life affirming - Bunny StarrImagine waiting your entire lifetime for a moment to arrive.. then replaying everything that led up to it. The book fans will arguably grumble, but it is best to view this as a film in its own right. Mike Newell (four weddings and a Funeral) proves he can do serious and thoughtful. Javier Bardem shows that his range is not limted to (probably) the best more ... |
 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Video)- Bunny StarrAnother interesting contribution from Charlie Kaufman, (Adaptation), and a fine performance form Kate Winslet and surpirisingly good one from Carrey. The memory erasure techniques seem to raise similar questions as, say, Minority Report -the whole idea of being able to ineterfere with someone's mind even if it is for their own good. Another intersting issue more ... |
 | Once (Video)mountyjoy square - a new vision of dublin - Bunny Starrso it's like everyone knows the story at this point.. boy meets girl, there's complications, and they share music.. hansard's performance is considerably better than the committments... there are some fast dublin quips.. and the now famous Oscar-winning "falling slowly"... what the film lacks in the plot department it compensates adequately in more ... |
 | The Bank Job (Film)it does exactly what it says on the tin - Bunny Starrfast paced action piece with a subtle amount of cross double cross deceit and counter-deceit... violence, second hand car dealership, a stag party, friendship, fidelity.. "bent coppers", deviant politicians, corrupt businessmen, pornographers, black power, blackmail, old school ties, loan sharks, ham radios, con men, silly men, greedy men, more ... |
 | The Cottage (Film)well i liked it - Bunny Starras did the rest of he cinema apparently more ... |
 | Margot at the Wedding (Film)mature film about american emotional immaturity - Bunny Starrkidman plays a deeply arrogant narcisistic know-all, and leigh her naive sister, jack black plays a serious character.. it's difficult to get this standard of acting though the film seems more to be a comment on the lifstyle that is america's east coast.. and cleverly opens a debate about a little information or financial success being not the same as a more ... |
| The Cottage (Film)laugh till you bleed - Bunny StarrThe funniest "scary movie" since evil dead; and then some. The offbeat humour is not moribund, it's just funny - sick - but funny in a cringefully horrible sort of way. Take all the gags from American Werewolf, Dawn of the Dead, or even the uber-camp Bride of Frankenstein, and imagine them done in the style of Porridge, directed by Tarrantino. more ... |
 | My Blueberry Nights (Film)so far.. - Bunny StarrMs Jones can sing. Wong Kar Wie can direct. The soundtrack is apt. Other than Ms Jones, the acting is fine, yet Mr Strathairn's performance is compares well with Ray Milland's in Lost Weekend. There's touches of Thelma and Louise, Cheers, The Lost Weekend and even Wilde at Heart: so why doesn't it work? And more to the point why do people pay into the more ... |
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