Film Reviews Blog

This page only shows films that have a review. By default in date order of reading with newest at top

Sunday 13th April 2014

Synopsis extract :
Sort of documentary juxtaposing astronomers in the high Chilean desert exploring the skies with ...
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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 ...
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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

Synopsis extract :
Story within a story within a cover concerning the concierge of a central european hotel in the ...
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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 ...
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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.



Saturday 1st February 2014

Synopsis extract :
A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their ...
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Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 01 Feb 2014

Review of "Where Do We Go Now"

Excellent piece of storytelling around a community resisting external pressures of conflict