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Reel Weekend | 18 April 2008
Acclaimed playwright Martin McDonagh's debut feature In Bruges is probably the first hitman movie to be set in Belgium, a country better known for worryingly fruity beer, Poirot and Jean Claude Van Damme than a violent criminal underworld. The hitmen in this case are a pair of Irishmen, played by Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, who come to the quaint medieval town of the title to cool off after a hit back in London goes wrong...
Reel Weekend | 18 April 2008
Kit Ryan's Botched is an Irish-funded but Russia-set movie that begins like any other heist flick – a veteran thief is forced to do one last job by mobsters after a diamond robbery goes badly wrong. Unfortunately for our hero (played by Colin Farrell), but luckily for the audience, this job ends up involving gun-toting nuns, exploding rats and a psychotic killer who believes he is the reincarnation of Vlad the Impaler.
Movie Review: Lars and the Real Girl
Reel Weekend | 28 March 2008
The tale of a man and his relationship with a life-size sex doll is not what you'd immediately consider could make a genuinely moving love story, but Lars and the Real Girl somehow manages to combine humour with a poignant look at loneliness and the fragility of the human mind. The emotionally troubled Lars meets Bianca, the girl of his dreams, however unfortunately for Lars he believes she's a living, breathing human being...
Reel Weekend | 14 March 2008
The Cottage, directed by Paul Andrew Williams and starring none other than Brookside's Jennifer Ellison, is a worthy entrant to the splatter comedy genre. It fuses broad comedic farce with gory horror thrills, with plenty of limbs getting lopped off, farm implements being put to inappropriate use and shovels through faces. It manages to be a whole lot of fun once it hits its stride...
Movie Review: Margot at the Wedding
Reel Weekend | 29 February 2008
Margot at the Wedding, starring Nicole Kidman, Jack Black and Jennifer Jason Leigh, is a dark comedy written and directed by Noah Baumbach, whose previous movie The Squid and the Whale proved a breakthrough indie hit in 2005. Kidman plays Margot, a successful writer but emotional wreck who comes to visit her estranged sister Pauline after she hears she is about to marry a deeply unsuitable man she has only just met...
Movie Review: The Boss of it All
Reel Weekend | 29 February 2008
The Boss of it All is definitely a comedy, but director Lars von Trier goes out of his way to subvert the genre. The first thing we hear is the director's voice, telling us exactly what kind of film we're going to be watching, and he pops up a bit later to inform us when we're at the halfway point. He also directs using a process called Automavision, in which a computer randomly chooses the camera angles, meaning that at any point, characters will disappear out of frame and sentences will be cut off in mid-flow. Police Academy this ain't...
Reel Weekend | 15 February 2008
Be Kind Rewind is the latest film from French maverick Michel Gondry, who previously brought us Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and last year's The Science of Sleep. Jerry (Jack Black) and Mike (Mos Def) are given the job of looking after a crumbling VHS-only video store when owner Mr Fletcher (Danny Glover) goes away for a few days. Unfortunately, Black gets magnetised while committing an act of environmental terrorism, and somehow wipes every tape in the store. So the bungling duo take it upon themselves to remake the movies using just themselves and an old camera...
Reel Weekend | 25 January 2008
Produced by comedy man-of-the-moment Judd Apatow, this smutty comedy hits DVD this week. After the success of Knocked Up, star of that hit, Seth Rogan writes this tale of three teenage friends who embark on a wild night of drink, partying and girls before they head off to college. It may sound like another generic teen comedy but Reel Weekend discovers a surprisingly touching tale which offers much more than it's set up might suggest.
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