Wednesday 17 April 2013

Oblivion

Cast
Tom Cruise
Olga Kurylenko
Andrea Riseborough
Morgan Freeman
Nicolaj Coster-Waldau
Melissa Leo
Zoe Ball
Screenwriters
Joseph Kosinski
Karl Gajdusek
Michael Arndt
Director
Joseph Kosinski
Running Time
126 minutes

Jack Harper is one of the last drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack's mission is nearly complete. But when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft, , he begins to question everything he knows. [Universal Pictures]

I liked it but it's too long and the villains an idiot.

Wednesday 10 April 2013

In The House

Cast
Fabrice Luchini
Kristin Scott Thomas
Ernst Umhauer
Bastien Ughetto
Catherine Davenier
Denis Menochet
Emmanuelle Seigner
Jean-François Balmer
Vincent Schmitt
Yolande Moreau
Screenwriter
Francois Ozon
Director
Francois Ozon
Running Time
105 minutes

Sixteen-year-old Claude insinuates himself into the house of fellow high school student Rapha, writing about his family in essays that perversely blur the lines between reality and fiction for his jaded literature teacher Germain. Intrigued by this gifted and unusual student, Germain rediscovers his taste for teaching, but the boy’s intrusion sparks a series of uncontrollable events. [Cohen Media]

The main couple go to the cinema to see Match Point [the Woody Allen film] and this actually plays like one of his films. The BBFC notice before the film had a kind of inverse spoiler which misled me as to where the film was going. I enjoyed it but it was strangely uninvolving.

Wednesday 3 April 2013

Trance

Cast
James McAvoy
Rosario Dawson
Vincent Cassel
Screenwriters
Joe Ahearne
John Hodge
Director
Danny Boyle
Running Time
101 minutes

An art auctioneer, mixed up with a group of criminals, partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting.  [Metacritic]

Unbelievably convoluted but entertaining.