Too Many Ideas - Posts Tagged ‘Review’
The International
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Just back from seeing The International, a twisty euro thriller that jumps between Europe and New York weaving the tail of a bank which is tangled up in some very shady deals. Clive Owen gives a strong performance and is ably supported by an excellent cast. The pacing is deliberately uneven which avoids the danger […]
Big Vue News Catch Up
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Catching up on Vue related stuff: nearly 2200 alerts (which may have up to ten possible web pages in each alert) to possible Vue content checked of which a grand total of 3 pages made it into the Vue News Blog. The hit rate is normally higher but there were a lot of Vue 7 […]
Vue Mass Convert 0.6
Friday, November 21st, 2008I’ve just uploaded Mass Convert 0.6 for both Vue 6 Infinite and Vue 7 Infinite to my web site. The major improvement to this version is that when producing Vue’s VOB files it now produces a preview render of the object or if an appropriately named file is present on your computer with the objects […]
Le Doulos
Sunday, November 16th, 2008I saw a write up of Jean-Pierre Melville’s film Le Doulos [1963] in one of those greatest films of all time lists burried between the always present classics and the good recent films that get voted onto lists for a few years and then fade. It caught my attention because its not one of the […]
Burn after Reading
Saturday, November 8th, 2008Today’s cinema outing was to see Burn after Reading a film more in the style of a 1970s or 1960s slow burning thriller than the big action thrillers usually made today. There were no car chases or fight scenes, no high tech gadgets or flash cars and not one of the characters was remotely competent […]
I Won
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008I won a little competition over at the Fraternity of Shadows web site. Doubly cool as it saves me from writing another review.
Quantum of Solace
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008Just back from watching the new Bond film Quantum of Solace at the new Odeon in Liverpool 1. I’ll talk about the cinema tomorrow for tonight I’ll foist my opinion of the film on the rest of the world. The pre credit sequence opens up fast and hard in media res and is very effective […]
Tropic Thunder
Sunday, September 21st, 2008Went to see Tropic Thunder yesterday at FACT. Enjoyed it. I’d read a couple of reviews that said it was packed with too many in jokes but I didn’t think that was a problem. Stand out performances were Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Cruise. Jack Black’s role didn’t seem to work too well, partly because […]
Get Smart
Monday, September 8th, 2008Its funny, its got quality slap stick and its definitly Get Smart. You want more detail? OK. Far too many TV remakes have become cynical, star vehicle exercises. Shows which wern’t comedies reduced to a series of punch lines, some "funny" period references (drugs, flared trousers, sexism, bad haircuts or whatever) and a manufactured gag […]
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Sunday, September 7th, 2008My trip into the city centre earlier was to catch Hellboy 2. So here’s the short review – not a bad film. The action was good. The special effects were good. The acting was (you guessed it) good. It had nice character moments and it proved again that Ron Perlman should get more leading roles […]