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Saturday 19th April 2014

2012

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Director : Mira Nair

Synopsis extract :
Based on the book (same back story but foreground story somewhat sexed up). ...
Film Category
The 2010s

Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 19 Apr 2014

Review of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"

Shame they messed with the front story as it was nicely understated in the book.


Sunday 13th April 2014

2010

Nostalgia for the Light

Director : Patricio Guzmán

Synopsis extract :
Sort of documentary juxtaposing astronomers in the high Chilean desert exploring the skies with ...
Film Category
The 2010s

Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 13 Apr 2014

Review of "Nostalgia for the Light"

Stunning photography but it didn't seem to hang together - no drama, no narrative, no thing. And I kept falling asleep cos it was so boring


Sunday 30th March 2014

2010

Monsters

Director : Gareth Edwards

Synopsis extract :
Aliens have taken over Mexico and a poor little rich girl needs to get home to daddy in the US and ...
Film Category
The 2010s

Reviewed by Roger, DVD @ home on 30 Mar 2014

Review of "Monsters"

Rubbush story about self-centred trivial young people with massive background plot holes and some reasonable special fx


Saturday 29th March 2014

2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Director : Wes Anderson

Synopsis extract :
Story within a story within a cover concerning the concierge of a central european hotel in the ...
Film Category
The 2010s

Reviewed by Roger, Rebel Cinema on 29 Mar 2014

Review of "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Hugely well crafted and entertaining


Sunday 23rd February 2014

2011

Dreams of a Life

Director : Carol Morley

Synopsis extract :
A filmmaker sets out to discover the life of Joyce Vincent, who died in her bedsit in North London ...
Film Category
The 2010s

Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 23 Feb 2014

Review of "Dreams of a Life"

Badly flawed in its failure to reveal all it found out - presumably for legal reasons - and just focus on those who were prepared to tell their story on camera.


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