Heehee. David Spade cracks me up. I just hear his voice and I giggle. The man is funny, in a cute way. I didn’t really know anything about the movie going in, except for what you get from the name. So Dickie Roberts used to be a famous kid in a sitcom, complete with his [...]
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Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Posted in Films, tagged comedy, David Spade on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Posted in Films, tagged real dolls, Ryan Gosling on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lars and the Real Girl is about a 27 year old man, Lars, who falls in love with a sex doll. Sure, it sounds kinky, but as the director of the film points out,
The premise of the movie just doesn’t do justice to the journey that you go on.
-Craig Gillespie, director of Lars and the [...]
WALL·E (2008)
Posted in Films, tagged kids movie, WALL·E, PIXAR on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, so I went to see WALL·E last night – I think this film could end up becoming one of my favs!
The story is about WALL·E, a Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth-class. He is a wee robot whose “directive” is to clean up rubbish. His torso opens, he scoops a load of garbage in and [...]
Drillbit Taylor (2008)
Posted in Films, tagged Owen Wilson on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Owen Wilson cracks me up. There’s just something about his face that makes me laugh. Not in a mean way, I just see his face and think of all the funniest lines from his movies that I’ve seen (“The vultures are eating my head!”). So I’m always really disappointed when one of his movies isn’t [...]
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
Posted in Films, tagged China, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, kung fu on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to see this film at the cinema last night and left feeling… a little underwhelmed. That’s right, I said it – Jackie Chan and Jet Li fighting it up in a crazy movie of fightingness and I was a little underwhelmed.
I don’t know if it was because I just wasn’t in the mood [...]
Nice… acting
Posted in Films, tagged women in film on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just been watching Constantine on TV. One thing that really bugs me about movies is – no matter what genre the film is, if a chick’s gunna get wet, you can bet she’ll be wearing a white shirt when she does. And never a decent bra. Like Kirsten in Spiderman – pale pink, flimsy [...]
Happy Times [幸福时光] (2000)
Posted in Films, tagged Chinese film, Zhang Yimou on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The other night I was in that place – you know – warm, tired, but unable to turn off the tv, and I was just flicking through the channels when I came across a Chinese movie. It’s very unusual for any foreign language film to show on free-to-air tv in New Zealand (except for on the [...]
A Lot Like Love (2005)
Posted in Films, tagged Ashton Kutcher on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I wrote about What Happens in Vegas I may have said some negative things about that film, but Patrick of K.O.G Media pointed out that Ashton Kutcher has been in some pretty decent chick flicks, and cited A Lot Like Love as an example – and by gum he was right.
This movie is the story [...]
Death Note [デスノート] (2006)
Posted in Films, tagged Japanese, manga, scary on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I got out Japanese movie Death Note on DVD. Actually, my bf got it out, and since the label said “genre: foreign/horror” I was ready to run at the first sight of blood, gore, and/or undead children. However I was pleasantly surprised and fascinated by what is actually a really smart film with [...]
The Good, the Bad…
Posted in Films, tagged Korean film, Western on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…the Weird. That’s the name of a new Korean film coming out and as you may have guessed (but not dared to believe) from the title, it’s a Western. That’s right, a Western made by Koreans in Korean. I’ve seen the trailer and all I can say is… why didn’t somebody think of this sooner? [...]
