Category: Films
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#midweekfilmclub – On The Road – It’s a bit like the A470…
Jack Kerouac‘s On The Road is a staple of the Beat Generation; those drug addled, jazz fuelled writers and poets that liberalised publishing in America as it was. This sprawling, autobiographical book, manifestly takes in endless locations and characters, many a passing blur, as a chameleonic group of hedonistics do their utmost to tear a […]
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Film: Argo – Dir. Ben Affleck #midweekfilmclub
To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much; let’s be honest, Affleck’s had a patchy career at best, so a sortie into directing had me fearing the worst. But, and here’s the key, the story looked really interesting. That Affleck was also trying to switch from leaden actor to lead actor didn’t help my fears either. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
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Film: Berberian Sound Studio, Dir. Peter Strickland #midweekfilmclub 23
Much hyped and vaunted, the latest Brit-flick to have critics raving is Strickland’s sonic salutation; a disturbing glimpse into the pre-digital era of film making and specifically into special effects.
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Film: Hodejegerne (Headhunters), Dir. Morten Tyldum
After a slow start, headhunters hits it’s straps half an hour in and the tempo from there is excellent. There’s a reasonably complexed story arc (the film’s adapted from Jo ‘the next Stieg Larsson‘ Nesbo’s book) which is really slickly delivered. In short, we have 1.68m tall Roger Brown (that’s 5ft 6in for most readers!) playing a […]
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Film: Take This Waltz, Dir. Sarah Polley #midweekfilmclub 21
Hmmm. After taking the summer off from MWFC, I thought it was high time to get the ball rolling again. Kinda wishing I’d chosen a different week. A while back I heard that In Bruges was, in essence, paid for by Eurostar, in return for product placement, before it became allowed per se. I loved […]
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Film: Brave, Dir’s. Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman and Steve Purcell (co-director)
As is tradition, after a blustery, but sunny, day yesterday I woke this bank-holiday Monday morning to the sound of rain hammering away outside the window. August in Wales is nothing if not predictably unpredictable. So, having foolishly taken the kids to Cardiff National History Museum today, we were hand-tied that it was going to […]
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Film: Repo Man, Dir. Alex Cox – #midweekfilmclub 13
On setting up this film-club, at the back of my mind, there was a part of me looking at the future me, wondering if I’d like it if I became a film bore… You know, waxing lyrical about how so and so’s best work isn’t the world renowned x, but the little known y and […]
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Film: Shame, Dir. Steve McQueen – #midweekfilmclub 11
This is the perfect first-date movie. Well, not really… but I’d pay good money to see the faces on a pair of relative strangers, both looking for love, on leaving the cinema after watching this. The film contains a series of impressively long shots; from a beautiful cityscape sequence showing sex addicted Brandon (Michael Fassbender) pounding […]
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Film: Take Shelter, Dir. Jeff Nichols #midweekfilmclub 5
This was, for want of better words, an enjoyable take on depression. Unlike the previous #midweekfilmclub pick The Debt, this film has just the two lead actors, who work well together and you really attach to them. Which you need to; the film’s two hours long and for me it feels it could have done with being […]
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Film: The Debt, Dir. John Madden #midweekfilmclub 4
OK, so what to say here… This was just a bit of a damp squib sadly. It’s overly cast, in that there are 8 characters sharing the leads, vying for your attention, in a dual timeline thriller. These are made up of 3 young Mossad agents, their later life counterparts and the young and old […]
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