Film Reviews by Popeyethetim

Its Science Fiction, Jim, but not as we know it. The locations are great. Its pretty rock 'n' roll-ish and built on that essential nature of a Glaswegian night out - the possible unattached pick up. Needless to say the guys don't quite get what they were thinking of. Wonderfully filmed. Paced bang on the money but still in some ways a strange strange film.

I loved it.

I still can't decide whether I like it or not. It's not your usual film. Its a road movie, detective, poetic, suspense - all those and something extra. Well acted at times beautiful. Worth seeing.

Loved the cinematograhy and what appears to be a noirish detective movie morphs into a love story and then back to noir. Beautifully acted and filmed. A great evening in

Why do all recent Hollywood films appear not just promote but brazenly shout Fortis Americana (which rarely leads to Pax Americana)? This takes an interesting novel, throws money big time at it, the usual digi hocus-pocus stuff to take dumbing down to a new level of stupidity. I think I would much rather watch the camp surrealism of David Lynch's effort than this utter brain dead and wasted opportunity from slackerdom on the demise of America whilst shouting how Big Up they are. Maybe its a product of having a French Canadian as the Director. All his films appear to have the hook to draw you in but are essentially vacuous when you get down to it. I suppose you should just park yer brain and admire the musculature of smashitup and CGI. I suppose we can expect another sequence of late Star Wars-type processional crud. Lets face it - after the first three (only two of which were decent) - it all went seriously downhill. I suppose if you start from the low base that Dune is then the only way is up. I can't, however, quite believe that.

Get a grip on this one as its a real bender. Starts off pretty straight forward and you think 'Here comes ome Brailian genre film' and then it switches into something entirely different. I was really spellbound by this one and a lot of un-actor actors doing great jobs. Great directorial skill. Generally feel-good in that good overcomes bad... but ion their own tough way. Brilliant film

I really wasn't sure what to expect from this but it turned out to be a superbly crafted and acted film, a directorial debut for Clark Duke. Its got it all really. Great acting, the dumb and dumber nature which soon turns to violence when things go wrong. Great performances from all the cast. Exceptionally well put together film.

Stands up well to the test of time. A wonderful film which manages to transpose the European magical realism of the book into film. Its just a shame that it stops at the end of Oskar's travels through to the end of the Second World War and we don't get to see the progress of Oskar through the new Germany - but then that would have made a VERY long film epic. As it stands this is a wonderful film made by a committed cast of director and actors to get it right. And it does too. The scenes in my head on reading the book were very similar to the scenes in the film. David Bennent is exceptional and the directing of Volker Schlondorff is spot on.

despite some great performances this is a trite love story wrapped in a 60s science fiction comic style. Bowdlerised, semi-romantic trash where the good are saints and the villains are demons . I wish I could get back the time I spent watching this.

Moved me to read Neruda again. Beautifully portrayed a wonderful and simple love story told with simplicity and having the weight of passion and sensuality all underlaying it.

As bleak a film as Andrey Zvyagintsev ever makes. I know Russians who hate his work because they see him as portraying a Russia and Russians that the west would like to think, to imagine it is. All are fated. The Church and State control everything. The little man wants to get along and live but is confounded when he sticks his head over the parapet only to have it crushed

When you see this you realise that Nicholson CAN act. Brilliant fil. Harrowing and at the same time quite compelling.

This used to be a difficult film to source. A tense thriller on snuff movies. Well worth it. Pace builds through the film. Its well directed and tight and builds to a sense of the usual inability to escape from the clutches. It is well worth getting this out to see a genre from a Spanish side rarely seen.

Probably his best work. Immaculately filmed. Tense throughout and incredible performances from all the actors. There is a great deal unsaid about the returned father which leaves him a bit of an enigma but we get hints of what he is like from his interactions with the two sons, the eldest of whom is readyu to accept him but the youngest and more sensitive doiesn't cope with it and rejects him. This is a great film, easily Zvyagintsev's best.

Everyone is a total selfish arsehole. The only redeeming factor is the boy who disappears. Andrey Zvyagintsev at his bleakest but a great study of characters and quite amazing acting and directing.

Bensoin and Moorhead. What can you say. Their films are always out there. This one we have a trapped in the loop film and a character study on cults and brothers. There is a strange feeling of dislocation that is built into this film which gets you when watching it.