The anbaric journal of Dan Slevin, gentleman, of Newtown
In New York there’s a Brazilian restaurant called Churrascaria Plataforma that specialises meat in all shapes and seizes:
At Churrascaria, diners signal their appetites with a dual-sided coaster resembling a poker chip: Green side up, more meat. Red side up, stop!
"... most annoying of all, director Paul Weiland gives himself the auteur credit of A Film By. In your dreams, pal."
0.3
"I barely tolerated this but if you are over 70 you might get a kick out of it - the people behind me who talked all the way through certainly did."
0.3
"... a highly entertaining action movie that is only let down by a not-quite-big-enough set-piece at the end."
0.3
"... really wins you over with smart writing and lovely, understated performances from a terrific ensemble."
0.3
"Why bother parodying films that are essentially only parodies themselves?"
0.3
"I wish I could have watched it with the subtitles turned off so that I could enjoy the music and art director Silke Buhr’s amazing sense of texture and architectural environment."
0.3
"... the images are ravishing, the performances are uniformly excellent and you could do a lot worse on a wet weekend."
0.3
“... there’s nothing you won’t have seen before and you’ll pick the plot apart some reels before Keanu does.”
0.3The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005)
2008-04-19 14:30
“He seems never to have done anything without someone beside him with a motion picture camera which adds considerable visual flavour to an interesting life story.”
0.3
“I liked Nim’s Island and I know one person who is likely to get the DVD for Christmas.”
0.3
“Even if you are not a U2 fan this film deserves to be seen as an example of the potential of 3D to transform the medium.”
0.3
“It’s not great cinema – that’s not Pilger’s bag – but it is essential viewing.”
0.3
“... a cross between Anchorman and Talladega Nights featuring the strengths of neither and the rampant self-indulgence of both ...”
0.3
“Like the forgotten poor in Pilger’s Caracas barrio or the displaced in Darfur, the power to proclaim our existence in the face of ignorant or malevolent authority isn’t just a right, it’s an obligation, and I’m certain that the good Dr. Seuss wouldn’t have missed the connection.”
0.3The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
2008-04-12 14:20
“I was growing increasingly frustrated with the plodding story-telling, and the over-reliance on the well-designed digi-creatures, before a great moment at the climax restored my faith that a proper screenwriter was on board after all.”
0.3
“Gosling’s performance is a thing of wonder but it wouldn’t be half as successful without great work from Paul Schneider, Emily Mortimer and Patricia Clarkson to play off. Kudos to them all. Not to be missed.”
0.3
"I think the key to Dylan is that he is less complicated (and at the same time more complex) than the world would have you believe and he fully deserves a work of art as fine as this one in his name.
0.3Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
2008-03-22 22:00
“Despite many pleasures, the film is sadly uninvolving for three reasons: the plot keeps the protagonists apart for nearly two hours thus generating very little heat; the mix of accents on offer (Spanish, Italian, Colombian, Brazilian) means it can be hard work following the dialogue and at least one of Señor Bardem’s moustaches makes him look like Groucho Marx.”
0.3
“Goldberg is particularly funny as the grumpy American struggling to appreciate French culture, French cuisine and (particularly) perplexing French attitudes to l’amour.”
0.3
“Earlier this year I said that delightful French rom-com Hunting & Gathering was “too good for the Penthouse”. I wish to unreservedly withdraw that frivolous wisecrack and apologise to the Penthouse as, by definition, it can’t be too good for them if they’re actually playing it. It’s heaps better than anything French they played last year, though.”
0.3
“... a heavy-weight Western-style epic pouring oil on the myth of the American dream and then dropping a match on it.”
0.3
“All the performances are wonderful but the heart of the film is Tommy Lee Jones’ Sheriff Ed Bell. Always (aggravatingly) a couple of steps behind he is a good man ill-at-ease with the sheer, inexplicable, evil he is confronted with. A masterpiece.”
0.3
“... an easy film to love and I can see people going back to it again and again.”
0.3
“... a little gem, like a perfect short story, sweet and funny and then gone in a heartbeat.”
0.3Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále...
2007-07-28 20:09
“Menzel’s direction is as assured and as witty as you might expect and the lessons among the laughs are happily subtle.”
0.3
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