TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY [2011] movie review

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY [2011] is a proper adult’s movie.  The frames of the film seem to move very slowly because the story behind them is so dense.  You have to think and concentrate very carefully to keep up with TINKER, and I really like having to do that while watching a movie.  My expectations for TINKER were actually muted because listening to a so called culture podcast I heard some critics say they could not understand it and that it was possibly meant not to be understood.  They should be fired.  Although I could not repeat all the plot developments to you verbatim nor name the characters exactly, the whole picture resides in my mind in clarity, but slightly out of focus.  This is one of the ten best movies of 2011.

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I SAW THE DEVIL [2010] movie review

I took a risk watching I SAW THE DEVIL and although I do not entirely regret it, there really is no reason to see a movie like this.  Right from the opening scenes I thought, “I am going to turn this off.”  Why would I think that?  Because I have no need to see people graphically tortured on screen, and I have no stomach for gore of any kind, never mind this kind.  Not that I would know, but this is not like one of those torture based movies that are the new kind of popular horror now.  It is still mostly a hardcore thriller, just the violence the characters do to each other strays into torture with gore.

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SENNA [2010] movie review

I was very impressed with both Senna the person and SENNA the documentary.  My knowledge of F1 really only began in the Shumacher era when I was living abroad and F1 was on TV more, so I had no idea of the legend of Senna or the circumstances surrounding his racing career.  What I was most impressed with, though, was how humble Senna remained when such success often is the downfall of modern sports figures.

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MELANCHOLIA [2011] movie review

I think director Lars von Trier has been making movies that have had the most impact on me in the last 15 years, at least from an emotional sense.  He pulls from his actors such raw emotion.  MELANCHOLIA features two sisters with the most unusual emotional problems.  I think MELANCHOLIA is as far out there as a movie can be without become insane just for insane’s sake.  It still remains a movie, but absolutely not like any I have seen before.  It is perhaps the most claustrophobic and isolating movie not set in a cave ever made.  I am not even sure I liked MELANCHOLIA, but the fact it has made me feel makes it a success.
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RUMBLE IN THE BRONX [1995] movie review

I think it might be impossible to watch a good Jackie Chan movie, like RUMBLE IN THE BRONX, and not think, at least for a few minutes, that you too could do kung fu like Jackie does.  Watching him on screen is very inspiring, at least while he is on screen, after all, there are not thousands of Jackie Chan fans with his skills walking around.  I remember having seen parts of RUMBLE before, especially the scene where part of a building gets torn down.  RUMBLE follows the winning formula of many of his movies, where he plays an innocent coming to town where people are in trouble.  He uses his kung fu to help out, the enemies get more serious, so does his kung fu!

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