I only got around to seeing this today and I wish it hadn’t taken me so long.  A love story musical shot in Dublin over 17 days for around €100k with two musicians as the lead characters wouldn’t generally equate to an excellent film but that’s what happened. (read more…)

In the late 1970s there was a revolution in Iran where some lunatics kicked the crap out of some other lunatics. Persepolis is the autobiographical story of a young girl who lived through the events and the aftermath of it all. (read more…)

Wow, what a brave film this is. True cinema auteurs in the mold of Welles and Kubrick are rarities nowadays but writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the best modern examples. I love all his previous films and ‘There Will Be Blood’ could turn out to be his masterpiece. (read more…)

Old people are kerrrrrr-azy! And not in a funny way! This film is about a woman who develops Alzheimer’s disease and is admitted to a nursing home. But just as important to the story is her doting husband who must come to terms with the changes in his wife. (read more…)

After an agonising nine weeks off the air due to the writer’s strike, both ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ were back on Comedy Central last night. Even though the strike is still ongoing, the network has brought the shows back without their writers (in response to Letterman, Leno, Conan et al returning last week). (read more…)

‘El Orfanato’ is a Spanish horror mystery about a woman who returns to the house in which she was raised when it was used as an orphanage. Straight off, that just can’t be a good idea. (read more…)

The fifth and final season of The Wire started on HBO last night. In case you don’t know, The Wire is the greatest television show ever. For those who’ve never seen it or never even heard of it, I’ll try to elucidate without spoiling anything. (read more…)

This is quite a good dramedy. It’s mostly drama with some dark comic moment dealing with the morose subject of an eldery parent who is close to death. Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman are great as the children who have to take care of their ailing father. (read more…)

This is a Bob Dylan biopic, of sorts. Various different actors play different characters, each embodying different stages of Dylan’s life. (read more…)

When I read that Aaron Sorkin (of The West Wing etc.) had penned the screenplay for this, I was looking forward to a good political satire. I was a bit disappointed with the end result but overall it’s not too bad of a film. (read more…)