The anbaric journal of Dan Slevin, gentleman, of Newtown
Holy Hell! I just got back from taking my Ma and Niece to Horton Hears a Who! at Readings and got stung for $42.60 (including one small popcorn). For a Thursday morning matinee!
It just goes to show how out of touch I am (my usual voracious movie-going is 100% subsidised by distributors and cinemas) but “Ouch”. How do normal civilians cope?
Please don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining - I know first-hand what the costs are in running a cinema. I’m just surprised. And broke.
"... the cinematic equivalent of someone grabbing you around the neck and rubbing their knuckles into your skull."
0.3
"I loved Be Kind Rewind and you’ll be honouring the spirit of the film if you see it at a theatre with a bunch of strangers."
0.3
"On his first night on the job the mirrors start to freak him out and two hours of excruciating exposition follow."
0.3
"Gervais may not have much range as an actor, but he does have depth and I found myself being unaccountably moved by a film that always delivers a little more than it says on the tin."
0.3
"Showcasing the Taranaki landscape as well as the people, Show of Hands has an ambition as small as the town but, sadly, doesn’t bear up under too much scrutiny."
0.3
"... dirty, funny, scabrous and yet ultimately wonderfully moral and virtuous - a delightful combination ..."
0.3The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
2008-11-08 10:20
"Worth much more than a look if you get a chance ..."
0.3
"... greatly enhanced by the presence of a real filmmaker behind the camera ..."
0.3
"A brilliant debut, though not tightly-plotted enough to really qualify as a thriller ..."
0.3The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
2008-10-27 16:25
"... wonderful to look at and not too long for kids ..."
0.3
"Of course, if I’m praising the craft it must mean that something has gone missing higher up the food chain, and I fear that I was not as moved by Brideshead as I could have been."
0.3A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich (2006)
2008-10-19 11:15
"... a subtle and involving documentary that makes you work a little to get the most out if it."
0.3
"Over the last eight years Washington D.C. has become the world centre of incompetence, venality, short-sightedness and political expedience and the film plays as an enraged satire about the end of the American Empire. We can only hope."
0.3
"It was perhaps a little too long for the restless pre-schoolers I shared a screening with, but for anyone and everyone else I whole-heartedly recommend it."
0.3
"The most purely emotional experience I have had in a cinema this year ..."
0.3And When Did You Last See Your Father?...
2008-07-29 18:15
"Director Anand Tucker builds his case carefully until a splendidly moving finale draws a line under a very satisfying film."
0.3
"I'd need to see it again before making the call about 'masterpiece' or not, but it certainly felt like that, standing numb in the Wellington rain after the Film Festival screening."
0.3
"... thoroughly entertaining and has unveiled McDonagh as a great talent for the future ..."
0.3
"Only the cutest animals and most colourful plants got through the auditions and Patrick Stewart plays the Morgan Freeman part as narrator."
0.3
"All the ABBA hits are performed with considerable karaoke-style energy from the mostly non-singers and Streep provides a lesson for the likes of Robert De Niro that when you take on a frothy commercial comedy you don’t have to leave your talent in your trailer."
0.34 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (2007)
2008-03-22 19:15
"As close to perfect as makes no difference."
0.3
I had exactly the same (ish) experience at the same movie at the same cinema on the same day … except I took my son and not your Ma and Niece. “Bloody hell” accidentally forced it’s way out of my lips when I paid for the tickets - cheap-as DVD’s (or illegal downloads) are definitely the way to go.
And then Jack refused to eat the $9.50 curry I bought for him after the show (great film BTW) … even though he INSISTED on it!
I ate it.
And my one.