Film Reviews by LC

Interesting story about an interesting person. In the days when Autism was less understood, it's a miracle that Temple Grandin did as well as she did.

Nicolas Cage continues his quest to appear in as many arthouse/oddball/obscure movies as possible, and this is one of the better ones. The script has shades of Charlie Kaufman in it, but the film is essentially a satire on the fleeting and fatal nature of fame. Well worth watching.

Although the film is OK, the events are mostly made up, so the amount that this reflects on Audrey Amiss herself is unclear. Monica Dolan is great as always, but the road-trip style of the film made it too convenient and unbelievable to take seriously.

Most of the film is a vague rambling of hippy ideals and theories, culminating for some reason in an outdoor performance by Jimi Hendrix. Whilst Hendrix is great, there's only around 25 mins of him, and doesn't really justify the rest of it. A real 60's odditiy.

Like most of the other reviewers here, I found this film way too slow to be enjoyable on any level. I only managed around 45 minutes, but in that, virtually nothing happens, no clarity is given to who the characters are and what they are doing, dialog is almost non-existent and there is nothing to engage the viewer at all. I'm all for slow-burn films, but this just tried my patience too far.

It was OK, but I was expecting more. The emphasis on a crackpot inventor, the robots growing pains and a local bully definitely made it feel more of a kids film rather than an exploration of the friendship and loneliness that I thought it would.

I was hoping for more, being a big fan of truffles and Nicolas Cage. Sadly, the film never really engaged me. The bizarre underworld of the restaurant scene made no sense, and just seemed to be there for Cage to get a kicking. Perhaps he has taken too many lunatic film roles to ever be taken seriously again. Disappointing.

It's OK. It's very much like an extended episode of Space 1999 though, and includes a lot of the usual suspects from other Gerry Anderson productions. Not a lot of Gerry's fantastic sci-fi models, but enjoyable anyway. Once problem is that the Blu-Ray did not play on my player, and so I had to use a PC drive to watch it. Not sure if this is my problem or the disc.

Whilst a lot of Morricone's music is great, it doesn't make for a great documentary. There's virtually no tension or drama to his life, everyone loves him, and there's very little of interest to say. 2 and a half hours is a long time to watch old men singing his praises, and there's a lot of soundtracks to dreadful Italian "Giallo" movies. I was hoping for more.

"Ed Wood" is probably the last great film role for Johnny Depp, and definitely the best movie ever made by Tim Burton. It celebrates the B-movie director, whose vision certainly outweighed his talents, but does so in a touching way, showing his belief in his work. The supporting cast of oddballs are great, especially Landaus turn as Bela Lugosi. The film looks great in a black and white homage to the period. Well worth a watch.

The first film was fun, and the second just about scraped through, but this is possibly the worst film ever made in the history of cinema. A rehash of scripts and jokes from the first two films , a bewildering mess of a script, a dismal right-on casting agenda, and to top it off, Keanu's face today is just plain weird. It's a dreadful cash-in that should never of seen the light of day. avoid at all costs.

A truly terrible film. It's slow, the plot is nonsensical, all the characters are absurd clichés, Kirsten Stewart is just plain annoying. It really has nothing going for it at all.

The tale of samurai honour is a good one, but unfortunately the transfer to DVD is rubbish. The image quality is poor, and the aspect ratio is broken so you only see a small letterbox image in the centre of the screen. Disappointing,

A good retelling of the incident. I realize some liberties were taken with some of the characters, but it still holds true.

Sadly it feels like Jim Jarmusch lost interest in this project. The self-referential jokes become tiring after a while, and the story literally ends in the middle.