Recent Posts Tagged With my private collection

• UP IN THE AIR

  Posted on Sunday February 21st, 2010 at 03:31 am in my private collection

  George Clooney, Vera Farmiga,Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman"The Story of a Man ready to make a Connection"I felt the need to watch most if not all of the nominated movies for Oscars Best Picture category. This year they decided to go with 10 instead of...

• INGLORIOUS BASTERDS

  Posted on Sunday February 7th, 2010 at 09:30 pm in my private collection

  Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Daniel Bruhl, Melanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender"Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France ..."So the thing is people either love Quentin Tarantino's films or they can't stand his filming style. Me ...

• THE HURT LOCKER

  Posted on Friday February 5th, 2010 at 10:44 pm in my private collection

  Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty,Guy Pearce, David Morse, Ralph Fiennes"You'll know when you're in it"There are war movies that are filled with explosive actions, brutal killings and float by on the we.hate.each.other.thus.we.kill.each.o...

• CHE: PART TWO

  Posted on Friday January 15th, 2010 at 01:18 am in my private collection

  Benicio Del Toro, Demian Bichir, Joaquim de Almeida, Lou Diamond Phillips, Franka Potente, Rodrigo Santoro, Carlos BardemThe second installment of Che begins in 1967 after he quits from his posts in the Cuban government and disappears from sight. The...

• CHE: PART ONE

  Posted on Monday January 11th, 2010 at 01:58 am in my private collection

  Benicio Del Toro, Julia Ormond, Rodrigo Santoro, Demian BichirThe world has glorified Che Guevara as an icon of revolution through the years. But it is important to know what he truly represented and to understand the why, where, when and how his str...

• BURN AFTER READING

  Posted on Sunday August 30th, 2009 at 10:02 am in my private collection

  Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich, Richard Jenkins"Intelligence is only their job"Trust the Coen brothers to come up with a full length film about a bunch of idiots. Basically, the story stems from a disk tha...

• MILK

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 09:46 am in my private collection

  Sean Penn, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsh, Diego Luna"His life changed history. His courage changed lives."Sean Penn shines in his role as Harvey Milk in this biopic about the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in the US. ...

• THE READER

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 10:16 am in my private collection

  Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross"How far would you go to protect a secret?"This film evolves around secrets. A secret love affair between Michael Berg (David Kross), a 15 year old boy and Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet) a thirty something woman....

• AUSTRALIA

  Posted on Friday May 8th, 2009 at 10:48 am in my private collection

  AUSTRALIANicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Bryan Brown, David Gulpilil, Jack Thompson, David Wenham, Brandon WaltersI love Hugh Jackman. But apparently not enough to watch his antics in Wolverine. Heh. Well I'm not into superheroes or mutants or whatever ...

• GRAN TORINO

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 09:15 am in my private collection

  GRAN TORINOClint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Christopher CarleyI have to say that for someone who grew up basically ignoring Clint Eastwood's earlier films i.e his Dirty Harry phase, I have now grown to admire his latest body of work where his fi...

• SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 04:30 am in my private collection

  SLUMDOG MILLIONAIREDev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan"Love and money ... You have mixed them both"No wonder this delightful movie won all the major film awards (so far), it is a gem! A smorgasbord of all the emotions known to mankind a...

• DEFIANCE

  Posted on Saturday January 31st, 2009 at 09:08 am in my private collection

  DEFIANCEDaniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner, Mark FeuersteinThis film is the true story about the Bielski brothers. It was adapted into the screen based on a book by Nechtama Tec, "Defiance: The Bielski Partisans"....

• VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 08:59 am in my private collection

  VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONAJavier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Dunn, Chris Messina"Life is the ultimate work of art"Lest you think by reading the title that this film was a p0rn flick, well you are ut...

• THE GOOD GERMAN

  Posted on Wednesday November 26th, 2008 at 02:45 am in my private collection

  THE GOOD GERMANTo be reviewed soon! ...

• SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET

  Posted on Thursday October 23rd, 2008 at 09:54 am in my private collection

  SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREETJohnny Depp, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Timothy Spall"Never Forget. Never Forgive."This gory musical will be reviewed soon! ...

• 3:10 TO YUMA

  Posted on Wednesday August 27th, 2008 at 09:45 am in my private collection

  3:10 TO YUMAChristian Bale, Russell Crowe, Ben Foster, Peter Fonda, Logan Lerman"Time waits for one man"Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is a rancher who has fallen on hard times. His land is about to be repossessed, he has huge debts and his son has lost ...

• WE OWN THE NIGHT

  Posted on Monday August 11th, 2008 at 10:36 am in my private collection

  WE OWN THE NIGHTJoaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, Eva Mendes"Two brothers on opposite sides of the law. Beyond their differences lies loyalty"A small movie that didn't cause much ripple in the waves of films churned out by Hollywood. Too...

• LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

  Posted on Monday July 28th, 2008 at 10:01 am in my private collection

  LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERAJavier Bardem, Benjamin Bratt, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Hector Elizondo"How long would you wait for love?"This is the movie adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's intriguingly entitled novel. I've never read the book solely be...

• LA VIE EN ROSE

  Posted on Friday July 18th, 2008 at 05:00 am in my private collection

  LA VIE EN ROSEMarion Cotillard, Gerard Depardieu, Emmanuelle Seigner, Sylvie Testud, Jean Pierre Martins"The extraordinary life of Edith Piaf"Extraordinary life indeed. But what is more extraordinary in my opinion is the masterful performance of Mari...

• THE AIR I BREATHE

  Posted on Wednesday July 9th, 2008 at 06:40 am in my private collection

  THE AIR I BREATHEWill review this film as soon as I make sense of its theme! ...

• RESERVATION ROAD

  Posted on Saturday May 10th, 2008 at 08:40 pm in my private collection

  RESERVATION ROADWell I certainly have no reservations that this film was well acted with 3 powerful performances from its main cast - Joaquin Phoenix, Jennifer Connelly and Mark Ruffalo. It was a gripping and exciting drama fraught with poignant mome...

• INTO THE WILD

  Posted on Sunday April 27th, 2008 at 10:09 am in my private collection

  INTO THE WILDA poignant docu-drama directed by the Sean Penn. It is based on the true story of Christopher McCandless. A drifter who abandoned all the comforts of his life to go off to his great adventure in Alaska. Only to realize way too late that ...

• ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE

  Posted on Friday April 25th, 2008 at 10:40 am in my private collection

  ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGECate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush, Abbie Cornish, Samantha Morton, Rhys Ifans"Woman. Warrior. Queen."9 years after the first Elizabeth film with the same few actors (Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush) and the same directo...

• NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

  Posted on Friday April 18th, 2008 at 09:50 am in my private collection

  NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MENTommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kate McDonald, Tess Harper "There are no clean getaways." Key words that immediately enter my mind when I think of this Coen brothers film are violence, mighty bad as...

• THE WHITE COUNTESS

  Posted on Friday March 21st, 2008 at 10:32 am in my private collection

  THE WHITE COUNTESSNatasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada, Madeleine Daly, Madeleine Potter This movie adaptation of the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro was the last collaboration between Ismail Merchant and James ...

• MY LIFE WITHOUT ME

  Posted on Tuesday March 4th, 2008 at 08:26 am in my private collection

  MY LIFE WITHOUT MESarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, Amanda Plummer, Deborah Harry The first time I came across the names Isabel Coixet and Sarah Polley was last year at the Spanish film festival. Their collaboration was for a film called "T...