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Dreams, Dogs & Dreck From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(1 day old)
Okay, first up a film I videoed on Film Four months ago and took me ages to watch and then I forgot that I'd seen, so I'll take it now. One of the only regrets I have doing this blog is that I didn't … more
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Latest Sky offerings From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(3 days old)
Okay a few films on tv to blast through. I caught W. when it was on Sky Premiere, Oliver Stone is someone I used to have a great deal of time for as a filmmaker but sadly he's been irrelevant for abou… more
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Leeds International Film Festival 2009 From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(4 days old)
Right, I wondered whether to do this like last year and just do the films with normal reviews or go with the sort of thing I did in Venice or use my round-up style and given the circumstances I'll do … more
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Why Women Can't From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(8 days old)
Something a bit different here, but something I've been mulling over the past week or so. After watching Bright Star last week I was looking over what I've been watching this year and I realised the t… more
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Bright Star From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(12 days old)
Jane Campion has been a worldwide name in cinema for a decade and a half, having burst onto the scene in 1993 winning the Palme d'Or and getting nominated for everything under the sun with The Piano. … more
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Katalin Varga From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(13 days old)
Peter Strickland's debut film, Katalin Varga, has a very unusual history. Having been shown at the Berlin Film Festival this year, prior to that it had been on the shelf for the best part of two years… more
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Up 3D From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(18 days old)
Pixar are, Will Smith aside, seemingly the only bulletproof people in the film industry today, with all of their films apparantly untouchable at the box office. Their latest offering, Up, has continue… more
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An Education From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(21 days old)
Lone Scherfig is one of the finest directors in Europe, bursting on to the international scene with her delightful Dogme film Italian for Beginners the best part of a decade ago. Since then she's bran… more
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How the brain works... From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(21 days old)
Right, so yesterday I sat down to have tea in front of the tv and had a flick round to see if there was anything worth watching. I came across the second half of The Last of the Mohicans (which I've s… more
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(24 days old)
Terry Gilliam is one of the most visionary directors working today, and seemingly only someone of his level of talent would be able to rescue a film from the brink of disaster as he has here. When Dav… more
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A trio and some telly From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(24 days old)
Right, straight on with it, I saw The Nanny Diaries on Sky because ... well, it was on and Scarlett Johansson is usually nothing if not watchable. The tone of this is the biggest problem, it goes for … more
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Triangle From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(28 days old)
Over the last few years Christopher Smith has positioned himself as the go-to guy for British horror films, and with his third feature, Triangle, he's reverted to the formula of his debut effort Creep… more
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When unable to move... From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(30 days old)
Right so I've been pretty ill for the past few days and as such I've barely moved out of the room with the cable box. Mostly watching sporting events, but the boredom has given way to seeing some pret… more
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A handful From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(39 days old)
Maybe I've been spoiled by In Treatment, maybe I've just not been watching very good films this week, but I'll blast through these. One of the more obscure channels played a couple of films this week … more
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In Treatment From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(41 days old)
Right, so as you may have gathered from the last post and comments, I was so taken with the first episode of In Treatment I decided to blast through it online (and still have every intention of watchi… more
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The TV situation From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(46 days old)
Not talked about any tv for a while but at the moment I seem to be inundated. I'm beyond annoyed that the BBC has stopped showing the Swedish Wallanders, leaving the final three in limbo (I heard some… more
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A fistful of hackjobs From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(46 days old)
Okay, the five films I'm going to blast through aren't all hackjobs, but that is the overriding theme as the majority of them are. First up one of the exceptions, the Iranian film Offside, which was o… more
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Creation From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(49 days old)
Every year there is a biopic that comes along that seems to be put on this earth for the sole purpose of trying to win awards. Miss Potter, Copying Beethoven, Goodbye Bafana, etc., there's always some… more
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Surrogates From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(51 days old)
Usually when a film is divisive, it is a love-hate film, eliciting extreme reactions on each end of the scale. Surrogates, surprisingly, is a divisive film as well, but not in the usual way as it has … more
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The Pick of the Bunch From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(54 days old)
Okay, four to whisk through. I've been aware of The Blob since it was casually referenced in an episode of Red Dwarf, and for some reason it was on one of the sky channels so I checked it out. Ultra-l… more
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District 9 From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(57 days old)
On occasion you come across a film that has it all, quality acting, good writing, assured direction, but somehow something intangible misfires, you can't quite put your finger on why because all of th… more
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Dorian Gray From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(58 days old)
If you are a young, good looking actor, then there are very few roles better than the eponymous character in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. It's a meaty role that allows the actor to run th… more
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A big bunch From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(59 days old)
So here I was thinking I had a few to talk about but I'd forgotten I'd seen a couple on tv before I went to Venice so I'll just have to blast through it all. Okay, first up Stop Loss, which I saw just… more
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Tristana e la maschera (Sadie Thompson), DVD From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(60 days old)
Right, so at the Venice Film Festival there were various stalls selling film-related stuff, be they dvds, posters, books, etc. and upon seeing this for 6 Euros it was an absolute must-buy. Gloria Swan… more
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Rumba From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(61 days old)
This film finally got its UK release after about a year of waiting, having done the rounds in numerous local film festivals (Athens, Leeds, Turin) and garnering a reputation as quite the crowd-pleaser… more
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Julie & Julia From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(64 days old)
In 2002, a frustrated wannabe-writer named Julie Powell, who worked as a secretary for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, decided to cook her way through the 500+ recipes of American celebri… more
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Away We Go From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(65 days old)
Sam Mendes began his film career at a very consistent pace, three years after his debut American Beauty he delivered Road to Perdition, and then had the same gap between that and Jarhead, and that and… more
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Fish Tank From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(65 days old)
Three years after her searing debut Red Road hit screens, Andrea Arnold has followed it up with her new film Fish Tank. Having won an oscar for her critically acclaimed short Wasp, both of her first t… more
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Venezia 66 - Venice Film Festival Day Six From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(66 days old)
FILM - Mr. Nobody, DIRECTOR - Jaco van Dormael,COUNTRY - Belgium, SECTION - In Competition Why I wanted to see it? - Sarah Polley. Impressions : The final film I saw at Venezia 66 was easily the mo… more
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Venezia 66 - Venice Film Festival Day Five From
shepster
in In the Mood for Blog
(66 days old)
FILM - Zanan bedoone mardan (Women Without Men), DIRECTOR - Shirin Neshat, COUNTRY - Iran, SECTION - In Competition Why I wanted to see it? - Iranian films invariably interest me and this had an inte… more