So on a weekend when you’ve had teeth yanked out from inside your face and you’re slightly loopy and you’ve exhausted your Netflix movies and you want to watch another movie while gorging ice cream, what do you do? Find a Sandra Bullock movie showing on Encore, that’s what!
Category: "2009"
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009)
The fact that a jazzy score drives writer/director Damien Chazelle’s ultra-indie feature and that the Guy of the title is a trumpeter only works to underscore the fact this film is about people desperately trying to find some sort of workable rhythm to life.
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Easily the most compelling installment of the franchise so far, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince transports viewers once again to Hogwarts where teen romance is blossoming despite the overbearing return of Lord Voldemort. The main actors are all a bit older and all a bit better for it, resulting in uniformly improved performances and the most rewarding film of the series.
“The Disappearance of Alice Creed” is Taut, Well Acted
J Blakeson’s feature debut The Disappearance of Alice Creed is a low budget British thriller starring Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston. Read the review of this surprisingly twisty film.
Animated “Mary and Max” is Delightful
Australian animator Adam Elliot has followed up his Academy Award winning short film Harvey Krumpet with Mary and Max, a touching clay-animated feature about a 20 year pen pal friendship between an 8-yr old Australian girl, and an obese New York man.
“Valhalla Rising” is Strangely Hypnotic
Despite being one of the slowest, weirdest and most pretentious movie I have seen in quite some time, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Valhalla Rising is an oddly transfixing spectacle that kept me riveted to the screen. Read the review of this strangely captivating film!
Review: “Hot Tub Time Machine” is Silly Yet Likable
Four guys disillusioned with their adult lives decide to take a trip to an old ski resort, where they used to party back in the 1980′s, to recapture past magic. The guys relax in their suite’s hot tub which is also secretly a time machine causing them to wake up in 1986 the next morning! Read our review of Hot Tube Time Machine.
Movie Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Critically lauded over the past year, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a thrilling mystery tale that touches base on themes of darkness and despair, but at the same time manages to create characters intriguing enough to keep you glued to what’s happening, even if you don’t always want to look.
Guest Review: A Single Man (2009)
There have been a few films in my life that have struck a chord in my heart. It’s as if the film is a secret that I hold close and dear, and I only want to share it with a select few. All That Jazz and American Beauty have been films that I have felt this for, and then I saw Tom Ford’s A Single Man starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult and Matthew Goode.
Movie Review: Brothers (2009)
Brothers, directed by Jim Sheridan, is a remake from Susanne Bier’s 2004 Danish film. I haven’t seen the original and I will never understand why Hollywood always want to remake perfectly good movies but I was positively surprised by this modest war drama thanks to some truly terrific performance from the cast.
