16 May 2013 | 6 days, 5 hours ago | From: Total Film Reviews | Clicks: 1
| The respective ages of Quartet’s leads (72, 69, 75, 77…) reads like a game of geriatric bingo.But then their director is no spring chicken either, septuagenarian Dustin Hoffman having just as much right to a free bus pass in the country where his first feature is set.Quite why it has taken Benjamin Braddock so long to step behind the camera is anyone’s guess.Yet he proves an efficient enough ringmaster in this gentle portrait of nursing home oldsters, set in a facility for retired opera stars whose declining capacities don’t stop them acting like divas.It’s not just Dame Maggie Smith’s presence that recalls The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel here, Hoffman’s mellow adaptation of Ronald Harwood’s 1999 play being just as brazenly targeted at the lucrative grey pound.Yet Quartet has the edge on John Madden’s 2011 outing, its poignancy feeling honestly and legitimately generated as opposed to cynically engineered and laid on with a trowel.Pauline Collins is especially effective as a kindly biddy gradually losing what is left of her marbles, while Tom Courtenay embraces the chance to play a romantic hero in his role as a tetchy tenor whose hopes of a “dignified senility” are shattered by the arrival of old flame Maggie.Billy Connolly, meanwhile, hardly breaks a sweat as a randy git with priapic hots for Sheridan Smith’s long-suffering resident doctor.Yes, Michael Gambon is preposterously hammy as kaftan-sporting despot Cedric, while a scene in which Courtenay li [...] Read it at Total Film Reviews .... |
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15 May 2013 | 1 week ago | From: Total Film Reviews | Clicks: 4
| Rape-revenge is the most morally dubious of genres, often made by those more interested in filming the former than dealing with its fallout.Some theorists even compound the crime by calling the likes of 1978’s leery I Spit On Your Grave “feminist” because they show a woman fighting back.Nice try.Though it loosely follows the formula, American Mary is one of the first such films that can legitimately lay claim to that label.Made by writer/director sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska – aka “The Twisted Twins” – and starring the formidable Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps, Freddy Vs Jason), it’s a film that’s not about humiliation, but empowerment.Mary Mason (Isabelle) is a promising surgery student who stitches turkeys back together in her spare time.Auditioning as a stripper to make ends meet, she’s called upon by club owner Billy (Antonio Cupo) to fix up a torture victim, and soon becomes a kind of black-market saw-bones for mobsters, misfits and body-modification addicts such as Beatress (Tristan Risk), who wants to turn herself into a kind of living doll.Then things get really twisted. With her sheer black hair, bright red lipstick and ice-cool demeanour, Mary is a kickass heroine, and when her path leads her into sexual violence, we never abandon her POV for a moment.This is a character who refuses to be turned into a victim – or worse, an object – and the film follows her lead, opening up all sorts of debates on how women might flip the tables on men, rec [...] Read it at Total Film Reviews .... |
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14 May 2013 | 1 week, 1 day ago | From: Total Film Reviews | Clicks: 6
| Pascal Arnold and Jen-Marc Barr’s film opens with a teenage girl masturbating in close-up. But that is as raunchy as it gets.18-year-old Romain (Mathias Melloul) is still a virgin, though his brother and sister are at it like petits lapins.When he’s caught jerking off in biology class the resultant fuss leads to an outbreak of sexual frankness in his respectable family.It’s all strangely tepid, though: the numerous sex scenes flatly un-erotic.It doesn’t help that this is a censored version, lacking some 20 minutes.You’ll have more fun staying at home.Sexual Chronicles Of A French Family News and Features [...] Read it at Total Film Reviews .... |
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8 May 2013 | 2 weeks ago | From: Total Film Reviews | Clicks: 64
| You know something really bad has happened when the FBI are forced to call in Miley Cyrus.Leaving behind her life as a tough teen PI to infiltrate a sorority house (where something really bad has happened), she brushes her hair slightly differently and magically transforms into an annoying, shallow rich girl.Cyrus gives fans what they want in this bubblegum Miss Congeniality riff – rolling her glazed eyes at cliquey girls and hot boys whilst she rasps through a confusing non-story.Scarier still is a cameo from Kelly Osbourne – one spoilt pop princess in the movies is more than enough, thanks…So Undercover News and Features [...] Read it at Total Film Reviews .... |
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7 May 2013 | 2 weeks, 1 day ago | From: Total Film Reviews | Clicks: 101
| So often dubbed “unfilmable”, Salman Rushdie’s 1980 Booker-winning novel is bravely taken on by director Deepa Mehta, crafting an ambitious but flawed adaptation.Narrated by Rushdie, it’s a generational saga following Saleem (Satya Bhabha), a boy born in 1947 on the night India declared independence from England and imbued with special mystical powers.Mehta does well in subtly depicting India’s postcolonial history, but the book’s ‘magic realism’ feels weak and unfocused.There’s humour and heart here, but it’s an overlong tale as meandering as the Ganges.Midnight's Children News and Features [...] Read it at Total Film Reviews .... |
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5 May 2013 | 2 weeks, 3 days ago | From: Total Film Reviews | Clicks: 43
| Adapted from a 2005 novel by controversial Aussie author Christos Tsiolkas, Tony Krawitz’s vivid travelogue follows Ewen Leslie’s antipodean photographer to Greece to scatter his father’s ashes and lay a family curse to rest.It’s not the only thing he ends up laying, despite his opportunistic shag-tourism being repeatedly interrupted by Kodi Smit-McPhee’s (The Road) spooked teenage refugee.Saddled with a plank-like performance from Leslie, it’s intriguing and pretentious in equal measure, capturing the feeling of being adrift in a foreign world, but then failing to capitalise on it.Dead Europe News and Features [...] Read it at Total Film Reviews .... |
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