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 | Nim's Island (Film)THE BOOK'S BETTER! - Bobbi JonesAfter this film, I bought Wendy Orr's book to see how much Hollywood changed the story, due to its one jarring note, Jodie Foster's fiction writer, Alexandra Rider. My suspicions were confirmed. Here is where Hollywood took a lot of literary licence. Alex is not the agoraphobic mess as portrayed in the film. As sometimes happens to writers (including some more ... |
 | Made of Honour (Film)MR. PERFECT IS NOT MR. RIGHT?! SHE'S BARKING MAD! - Bobbi JonesI know I said I was throwing in the towel on rom coms after 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', but seeing this film straight after 'Doomsday' with Neil Marshall's dim apocryphal view of a future Scotland, the Tourist Board wasn't the only one breathing a sigh of relief. So cue the bagpipes - again! (Oh incidentally, they'll be played by laird Kevin McKidd, who more ... |
 | Outpost (Film)A HOUSE WAS MORTGAGED TO BRING YOU THIS HORROR! - Bobbi JonesIt's courageous & laudable that the film's producers, Arabella Croft & Kieran Parker believe in their project so much that they are willing to mortgage their home to finance it. They were rewarded for their efforts at the Scottish BAFTAs with the 2008 1st Time Producer Award. However, judging by audience attendance(I was alone with my popcorn & more ... |
 | Doomsday (Film)WE'RE ALL DOOMED! - Bobbi JonesRobert Burns in 'Ode to a Haggis' wrote: "But take note of the strong haggis fed Scot/The trembling earth resounds his tread./Clasped in his large fist a blade/He'll make it whistle./And legs & arms & heads he will cut off/Like the tops of thistles." Well, the opening sequence certainly has no shortage of body parts, culminating with a more ... |
 | Happy-Go-Lucky (Film)LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT! - Bobbi Jones"Those that bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves." I remember reading that James M. Barrie(Peter Pan) quote & it seems appropriate for this film. When we first meet Poppy(Sally Hawkins), she's seems like she knocked back one too many eaux-de-vie, rather than is naturally high from an irrepressible joie de more ... |
 | What Happens in Vegas.. (Film)PUNKED - AGAIN! - Bobbi JonesAshton Kutcher, did you really think we wouldn't remember? This is 'Just Married' - 2! Instead of Brittany Murphy, it's Cameron Diaz & instead of Brittany's mother inviting her Punkster son-in-law (as if he needed encouraging), "Just call me Pussy", you get Cam's Wall St boss Richard Banger, to whom our quick as a whip quips, "Then you're more ... |
 | 21 (Film)WHERE'S THE WHOOOSH?! - Bobbi JonesI've been spoiled by the TV series, 'Las Vegas', with James Caan & the constant 'whooosh!' of the camera as it hones in on the next scene like an adrenaline rush when one-armed bandits finally surrender their lovely lucre with a ring a ding ding. I especially love the central security room with all the latest gadgets, including facial recognition, to more ... |
 | Iron Man (Film)FROM 'LESS THAN ZERO' TO SUPERHERO - Bobbi JonesA movie critic ironically once remarked of Robert Downey Jr's harrowing performance as the young wealthy drug addicted yuppie in 1987's 'Less Than Zero', "his acting here was so real, so subtle & so observant, it was scary." Mercifully, his life hasn't mirrored the film's ending (so far) as the character overdosed & died in the back of a more ... |
 | Stop-Loss (Film)STOP THE LOSS - NOW! - Bobbi JonesThe opening montage reveals to the audience that this war is different as it is being fought down narrow alleyways of death & into peoples sitting rooms where a soldier might come across the enemy holding a grenade in one hand & clutching a child as a human shield in the other. This was a hard one for me to watch having had similar experiences as more ... |
 | Flashbacks of a Fool (Film)THERE SHOULD BE A SEQUEL! - Bobbi JonesOur Daniel 'James Bond' Craig as a washed up actor?!! (Designer stubble does not a 'has been' make. One flash of those light blue peepers & he's A-listing again!) Unfortunately, as the opening montage would seem to indicate, his off screen sex & drugs antics were probably carried on set with him. "I don't care about your happiness. I only care more ... |
 | Deception (Film)SO WHERE'S THE DECEPTION? - Bobbi JonesYou might be deceived after reading the film's synopsis that this is 'Rogue Trader 2' with fringe benefits other than monetary at the touch of a speed dial. Ewan McGregor is the lonely auditor companies hire to check their books are in order. When asked what he likes about the work, he enthuses about the 'symmetry of numbers'. The most exciting thing he's more ... |
 | Leatherheads (Film)THE DIRECTOR'S CUT - Bobbi JonesI wish I could transport Clooney back to the screwball comedies of the 1930s & 40s, just to have him realise that the reason for their success was their brevity usually at under 90 mins. Not that we're complaining to an extra 23 mins screen time with George, but the length was my only quibble with this film & all rom coms produced these days. The more ... |
 | Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Film)THROWING IN THE TOWEL ON ROM COMS! - Bobbi JonesThis was billed as a male romantic comedy. Its star, Jason Segal, also wrote the script. I had high hopes. I like the fact that Jason Segal is no Brad Pitt. He's the ordinary bloke who looks in the mirror & thinks he's flexed his pecs when he's actually just jiggled his boobs. He's the guy in the Comfort ad patiently waiting for his date while she tries more ... |
 | Street Kings (Film)BEWARE OF PALE IMITATIONS! - Bobbi JonesThere seems to be a penchant these days to transfer subject matter already well explored in a TV series into major film release. These attempts are disadvantaged in that while the series has weeks & even seasons to build up plot & characters, the films are time restricted, in this case 108 mins.,to cover the same theme. I refer to THE SHIELD, of more ... |
 | Fool's Gold (Film)DON'T GIVE UP THE BONGOS, MATT! - Bobbi JonesWhere did all that lovely chemistry between Kate Hudson & Matthew McConnaughey go in 'How to Lose a Man in 10 Days', along with good script, great pacing, some laughs & designer clothing not made of Teflon to compensate for the lack of all of the above?! What a mess! Poor Malcolm-Jamal Warner as the villain-rapper probably wishes he was still little more ... |
 | In Bruges (Film)SEE BRUGES & DIE (LAUGHING)! - Bobbi JonesThat should be the title of this progressively dark 'comedy' with its unapologetic un-PC jokes in poor taste. First the audience is asked to laugh at a young hit man's (Colin Farrell) plight in being banished to a Belgian backwater after a botched 1st assignment, which incidentally was bumping off a priest in a confessional. Then the audience is asked to more ... |
 | Son of Rambow (Film)LET'S PRETEND - bobbi jonesIn this present world of instant visual gratification at a click & a scroll, it was sheer nostalgic delight to return to a time(in this case early 1980s) before the Internet & pocket size mobile phones made the need for a child to use his imagination obsolete. The 2 child actors, especially Will Poulter as Lee Carter with those unbelievably arched more ... |
 | Never Back Down (Film)THE BORED & THE BEAUTIFUL - bobbi jonesFighting in school to become top dog is not new & is usually confined to a small group of wannabe Alpha males (or females) with no constructive outlet for their testosterone. What is frighteningly new is that now with the Internet, your 'match' can be viewed by a wider audience of your peers, who think this is normal & worthy of admiration. I think more ... |
 | Awake (Film)USE THE FORCE, ANAKIN! - bobbi jonesI went to see this film mainly because my mother related to me years ago how she found herself awake (but mercifully pain free) during her operation to remove an intestinal blockage, where the surgeons were not only discussing their weekend fishing trip, but were using her intestines as a tape measure for the one that got away! This film would have been more ... |
 | How She Move (Film)MOVING ON - bobbi jonesThe plot may always be cliched in this type of film & merely a seque to some truly amazing dance routines, where characters will reveal more of themselves than any trite dialogue. However, for me, what made this film slightly different was the casting of Rutina Wesley as the leading lady. Here is not the usual manufactured Hollywood glamour puss which more ... |
 | Drillbit Taylor (Film)- bobbi JonesThe above utterance from one of the characters was prophetic in regards to this film. If I was a mother of a young teen, I would picket any cinema where this insensitive movie was playing. In this day & age when bullying at school is a serious issue, even leading to the suicide of some of its victims, this film gives out an alarming message. If no one's more ... |
 | 27 Dresses (Film)I've had enough! - bobbi Jones27 DRESSES started out promising with Katherine Heigl as our perennial bridesmaid/unpaid wedding planner commandeering a cab for the night for &300, with a $20 deduction every time the driver plays Peeping Tom while she changes in the back seat. (Poor cabbie ends up with only $140 because "You know what you did!"). At breakneck speed our more ... |
 | Lars and the Real Girl (Film)There is life after Young Hercules! - bobbi JonesThank God for Ryan Gosling. After the demise of Heath Ledger, I didn't think there was another up & coming young actor capable of taking on roles against the pretty boy type with such believable physical & emotional transformation. In Lars & the Real Girl, an almost unrecognisable Gosling,(whether from weight gain or strategically placed more ... |
 | Love in the Time of Cholera (Film)Razzie alert! - bobbi JonesThe curse of an Oscar winner strikes again! Just like Halle Berry after Monster's Ball with Catwoman, poor Javier Bardem after No Country for Old Men, stars in an truly awful epic which makes Catwoman arthouse! (Incidentally, Benjamin Bratt who gets the girl in this film, was also Catwoman's love interest.) The main problem is the script. It's like a bad more ... |
 | 10,000 B.C. (Film)10,000 BC - bobbi JonesYou've fallen into a pit, which is filling up with water making death by drowning iminent. Suddenly you notice you'll be sharing your fate with a huge trapped sabertooth tiger. Would you take pity on the 'kitty' & say "If I free you, do not eat me." ? Between the dodgy CGI & even dodgier script, I was hoping the kitty would eat him even if more ... |
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