Starring Bruce Willis, Mos Def
I’ve missed this movie in theaters partly because I really was not too keen on watching it. A story about a burnt out alcoholic cop was not on top of my agenda. Now I realize I should have paid more attention to the details about the story and the movie creators. The movie pulled me in right about after first five minutes and did not let up until the very end. Knowing now that Richard Donner directed it I’d say I should not have been much surprised.
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My Review of Secondhand Lions
Secondhand Lions Starring Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, Haley Joel Osment
An exuberant, vivacious and a very engaging movie with a great comic touch and a wonderfully oddball story.
A young boy Walter (Haley Joel Osment) is left by his flighty and irresponsible mother Mae in the care of her distant cousins, two grumpy rich elderly brothers, Hub (Robert Duvall) and Garth (Michael Caine) under the pretext that she’s going to study in college (eventually the boy finds out she lied). The brothers, according to the local rumors, have disappeared a long time ago and returned after many years with a load of money.
Greedy Mae instructs Walter to find out where the money is while she’s away. All Walter’s pleas to take him with her are being rejected as selfish and so he is forced to stay with his “uncles” who, quite frankly, at first seem to be way too eccentric and even a bit frightening, at least to the boy. The uncles’ real relation to Walter is never clear and it’s not important.
My review of Hotel Rwanda
Hotel Rwanda
Directed by Terry George, starring Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte
3 Oscar nominations
I would never have seen this movie if not for a friend who gave it to me. The subject of Rwanda genocide was featuring enough on TV news to give me an idea that viewing it might be difficult. It was indeed very painful to watch at times, but only because it’s one of the greatest tragic films I’ve seen in the recent years. It really brings out to light the horror of the massacre that was happening in Rwanda in 1994 in the form of the high tragedy.
The film was based on a true story and it starts just a day before the beginning of the massacre and the air is already thick with hatred and anxiety. Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), the assistant manager in the Hotel Des Milles Collines insists that the situation is not that serious, but the hateful speeches on the radio constantly poison the air. The population of Rwanda was divided by the Belgian colonists into two ethnic groups – hutu and tutsi. During the colonial rule the tutsi were in power, but when Rwanda has become independent the formerly oppressed hutu seized their chance to remove tutsi from power. This was the root of the conflict, but few people could envision the staggering number of its victims – over 800,000 people killed in a very short period of time!
My Review of the Pirates of Caribbean: The Dead Man’s Chest
The Pirates of
A long anticipated sequel to one of my favorite movies, which turned into a big disappointment for me.
It was so promising in the beginning – Elizabeth and Will are about to get married (though the pouring rain should have clued me in that the wedding might not be in the making for them). :icon_cry:
My review of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”
The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock
‘Tippi†Hedren, Rod Taylor
“Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds†is one of Hitchcock’s famous movies that I’ve never seen before. Something always came up and, although I did have a couple of opportunities to see the movie in the past, I never did. I did read the book, though, a very long time ago – so long ago that I honestly don’t remember the book in details, but I liked very much the suspense and the growing sense of the foreboding that I’ve experienced while reading the book. Unfortunately, I’ve realized after finally watching the movie after so many years of waiting, that it did not quite live up to my expectations…