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Did You Hear About the Morgans? |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
Directed by Marc Lawrence
Cinema
The Morgans, namely Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker are a warring New York couple who continue their war in Wyoming where they are hiding out as part of a witness protection scheme. Why? Because this couple who would rather be apart have to stick together as they have witnessed a murder and the baddies are after them.
Naturally we have seen all this before and will again. It’s funny and Hugh does what he does, pulls certain faces and earns bundles doing it. Sarah Jessica Parker has a certain cheeky style that works and the whole thing is a pleasant watch.
3 stars
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
Directed by Rob Marshall
Cinema
Well I’d like to say nice things about this overblown and frankly devoid of scrip musical, but I can’t. The decent songs do not exist apart from Judy Dench’s The sets and Italian backdrops just lift it a tad but only just. Daniel Day Lewis plays an Italian film director whose dilemma is his next movie and how he is going to balance his time between all his ladies. Which include Kidman, Cruz and even Sofia Loren as his ghost of a mother. They look lovely, unfortunately the film is not.
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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
Directed by Mat Whitecross
Cinema
Recently, I have observed two greater romances on film that have both captured the essence of truly deeply disturbed British cultural heroes of the past. First Aaron Johnson as an embittered but brilliant John Lennon in ‘Nowhere Boy’ and now the amazing Andy Serkis as the tortured Ian Dury.
It’s a great credit to the fabric of the UK that we took an American Art form of Rock n’ Roll and made it our own, consequently producing people of this calibre. Ian Dury’s tale is told through the eyes of his young son, who witnessed the antics of his off the wall rock daddy with both horror and amusement.
Through flashbacks we see Dury’s adolescence dealing with his polio and the awful abuse handed out to him, in a home, from a cowering teacher (Toby Jones) and his hero worship of his distant dad (Ray Winstone) then the older Ian with his group in dingy clubs (How I recall those) the birth of his son whilst he rehearsed noisily downstairs. The utter despair of both his wife Betty (Olivia Williams) and girlfriend Denise (Naomie Harris) are beautifully captured as they pass on the role of minder to the punk rock poet. With art and design from Blake this is a must see movie and Serkis deserves a BAFTA!
4 stars |
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Friday, 29 January 2010 |
 For those living with a life-threatening illness, every day deserves to be treated as precious. Sadly the stress and difficult realities of diagnosis and treatment mean that it’s all too easy to forget that life is here to be lived. |
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