Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Ontario Home Made Trailer

Spiderwick - Chronicles

As they say, "wet Easter Monday, Easter sucker." That's why instead of going to get some fresh air to the movies and I ended up being enough in a bad mood, I have temporarily postponed the film by Sidney Lumet to see this fantasy, which, despite my distrust post-Narnia to the kind I have, however, brought into the room rather curious and mildly hopeful.
Along with twin brother Simon (Freddie Highmore), sister Mallory (Sarah Bolger) and mother Helen (Mary-Loius Parker), young Jared (also Highmore) moves into the house of a distant relative Arthur Spiderwick (David Strathairn). Following a domestic incident, comes into possession of the manual written by the great-uncle, containing all the secrets of the fairy world around them. However, she awakens the desire of the ogre Mulgarath, who will do anything to gain possession and become the most powerful creature in the world. For the twins and older sister will be responsible for protecting themselves and the magical.
Director Mark Waters, after a couple of comedies for teen-agers and a bit 'more adult, returns to target youth with a genus new to him. The transition to the fantasy can reasonably well, adjusting the number of story by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. My impression is that the director has chosen to turn un film senza troppe pretese, rispettando le aspettative del giovane pubblico e facendo tutto sommato il lavoro onesto che ha svolto negli ultimi anni. Non sarà un film trascendentale, ma il mondo delle cronache di Spiderwick tutto sommato fa il suo dovere come film di intrattenimento, anche per gli adulti (pochi) in sala. E a questo punto poco importa se i dilemmi esistenziali e i problemi familiari rappresentati hanno la consistenza di un tovagliolo, quello che importa è salvare il libro e sconfiggere l'orco.

Voto: 6 / 10

Monday, March 10, 2008

Does Exercise Affect Your Period

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Juno

Febbraio è stato un mese foriero di grandi film. Nel mese più corto dell'anno, anche se quest'anno era un pochino più lungo, sono state programmate important outputs, for once we have placed before the embarrassment of the choice to go to the cinema. And now? You know the answer too. Apart from some rare occasions, the rest is calm.
Benjamin Barker, aka Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp), it was rightly jailed for 15 years by the cruel Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), in love with the wife of the barber. On his release, the victim becomes the persecutor and begins his revenge against the corrupt society of London with the help of Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), who helps him get rid of the corpses of his victims, making meat pies.
Sweeney Todd, which I eagerly awaited as huge fan of Tim Burton, I left a bit 'confused. Mind you, film is well shot and performed, with the atmosphere very dark and disturbing photo and a well crafted, but there is something that I was not convinced. Perhaps the fault is excessive hype, but I expected to leave the cinema with a razor in his hand wanting to put under the knife through the hand and it did not happen. The darkness of the staging burtoniana still remains a great impact, and morality (or lack thereof) probably strikes deeper than at other times, so there's little to complain about, but maybe seeing him between Blood and No Country for Old Men has not helped, or perhaps saying "Never change a winning team" has taken root in this case a bit 'too much.

Rating: 7 / 10

Sunday, March 9, 2008

What's The Chance Of A Third World War ?



First Juno has a very high value. I read an article on the Republic of Natalia Aspesi and for once I agreed with her. Some things that make one think eh. Then it is clear that 7yearwinter is sharper than in the polemic against the attempt to exploit anti-abortion film by theocons, which hopefully will not have even seen the film but will be based on the synopsis read somewhere.
The sixteen year old Juno (Ellen Page) gets pregnant after having a very casual relationship with his friend Paulie (Michael Cera). Having dispelled doubts on interruption of pregnancy, decide to pursue it and then give the child in foster care to a young couple. She (Jennifer Garner) can not wait to become a mom and is ready to take the plunge, as opposed to him (Jason Bateman) that it is a bit 'more reluctant, spends his days between rock music and horror films, hobbies that earned him the friendship of the teenager but that put him in conflict with his wife. After
Thank You for Smoking, Jason Reitman directing another play smart and balanced dose of sweetness and bitterness, capturing the audience with this successful recipe. Sure, the credit also goes to the protagonist Ellen Page, very good and very beautiful, that with the bump and then look indie, which pervades the whole atmosphere of the film is quite compelling. Juno probably will not come in the history of cinema, but as an episode of the series' successful independent film of the year "I'd say it went better than other times. Funny and intelligent, is a well-written comedy on the conquest of maturity which will not regret his predecessors in the field but rather provide some element of reflection in multiple target audiences. Or so one hopes.

Rating: 7 / 10

Monday, March 3, 2008

How Many Breaks Does Bmx Have?

Blood

You may omit any comment on the adaptation Italian Title: when There Will Be Blood There Will Be Blood becomes, is "the best close in a dignified silence." Better to move on.
's the end of the nineteenth century and the United States are many men who put themselves in search of oil in the wake of the second industrial revolution. Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) is called a fact finder in oil and traveling far and wide with his son "acquired" HW, and land concessions to search for using the image of her son. A Little Boston, the main character gets the most of your business success, but at the same time also began the unstoppable human problems related to figure of the preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano).
Paul Thomas Anderson returns to cinema after 5 years of absence to write and direct a fresco cynical and disillusioned about what is the process of founding of American society and he does skillfully juxtaposing the ruthless protagonist of liberalism and the stupid bigotry of his religious counterpart . Paul Dano, very good opponent and revelation of the film can hardly keep up with the grandeur and mastery of Daniel Day-Lewis, on whose shoulders rests the entire film and gives yet another interpretation by the book, rightly awarded the statuette Academy. Too bad that a movie so intense and full of meaning will be seen by very few people, rejected by a stupid and misleading title.

Rating: 8 / 10

Small Cabins With Lofts

Parlami d'amore

I'll be back to blog after three weeks of silence due to graduation (three years). I have seen several movies, including some by the Academy award-winning, it seemed right to start from the worst of these, just to get back on track and resume a bit 'hands, numbed by the long silence.
Sasha (Silvio Muccino) has grown into a community of drug addicts and now to earn a living is restoring the house of one of the benefactors of the community, in brackets is also the father of the girl he fell in love with the protagonist. Nicole (Aitana Sanchez Gijon) is a psychoanalyst French, escaped from his native country after losing a patient. The social dysfunction of the two characters begin to resolve after a chance meeting with the complicity and the presence of an abandoned dog.
Siilvio Muccino, after "writing" the book from which comes the pelilcola, awkwardly tries to follow the road taken by his brother and gets behind the camera. Probably if it was limited to direct a script someone else the result would have been less horrible, but since junior Muccino has handled all the production processes of the film can not help but take notice of their failure and do a mea culpa sentitissimo. The ambition, or rather the presumption, to write, direct and play a movie "Dramatic" as this was the condemnation of the young director. I'm pretty sure though that if he had direct Sorry if this is love (I have not seen, but affect the same), would have done better by Federico Moccia. Perhaps flying a bit 'lower the crash will be less dramatic.

Rating: 4 / 10