Before I start moaning about different aspects that made the Sessions completely dreadful to me, I want to say that before watching it, I had met with very good reviews of this film. Who liked it and why were now both lost in my fragile 25 year old memory, but I remember entering the cinema [...]
…which rating on IMDb (where the audience is usually quite forgiving and merciful) is only 4.6 and this happened: Oops…
1. It Pretends to be related to Knocked-Up (and THAT was a good film) 2. 40 year olds just don’t look like that…I mean, have they ever heard of white hair and wrinkles? At least some wrinkles? 3. Everybody is constantly frustrated…and not in a funny way, just in a frustrated way 4. Constant reference [...]
7 Psychopaths is nothing like you expected. If you have seen the trailer, you haven’t seen anything. With a seemingly random cast, charming title and one hell of a story, this is a film that makes comedy shine again. It is smart, it is absurd and it is touching, but most importantly, it offers the [...]
Celeste and Jesse are getting a divorce and I don’t care. Using its greatest editing potential in the opening credits, this new ‘break-up’ rom-com- or shall I say brokecom?- from the very hipster hands of Lee Toland Krieger disappoints us with lack of charm, unlikeable characters and bland story. But the biggest disappointment lies in [...]
I have to admit- I hated Hope Springs the moment I saw the lazy poster promoting it followed by completely charmless trailer. I hated it so much that I even promised myself not to see it (and I wasn’t even shocked when this promised I broke during this year’s Cinema Showcase), however, I truly didn’t [...]