Letterboxd — Your life in film

Guillermo Del Toro's obsession with the child's perspective is often the death blow of many films that have been produced with his name attached to it. He should stop producing them and he should start making them again because he has proven time and again that he is a fantastic storyteller and Pan's Labyrinth seems to be the film that blends together everything he values in film and stories.

This film is terrifying. Not so much because it is scary…

I really didn't want to start writing reviews again, but upon leaving the cinema half an hour ago I received a text from my brother saying that if I came home and started babbling about Star Trek or the B word, he was gonna throw the TV remote at my head again.
I'm not an idiot. The kid can AIM, and will absolutely do so with no remorse whatsoever, so I must share my thoughts with you lot before I…

Walk into this expecting subtlety and you're in trouble. Walk into this expecting cheesy, retarded fun and you'll be just fine.

See, this film does something quite extraordinary. It takes an absolutely ridiculous gimmick, seemingly created just to have an absurd action packed impersonation contest and it makes it work.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the script, because it is just really poor. It is overlong, has some cringe worthy dialogue and is riddled with annoying static in…

PTAbro's World Tour Stop 10: Poland

Colors and reflections. Ghosts and puppets. Dreams and death. Sight and touch. Song and dance. A rich tapestry of obfuscated reality, of imagined lives, both present and afar. Who are we? Where are we? Why are we? Is any of it real? If it is, how real is it?

The Double Life of Véronique is a question of identity, of how much our "I" belongs to other people. Of how much of "them" resides…

I don’t like the Star Trek franchise. I think it only fair I make that clear from the very beginning.

JJ Abrams’ first stab at this never-ending series re-energised the creaky Enterprise crew and delivered an accessible and breezy blockbuster in the process. This bigger, darker (well it is in the title after all) sequel is a natural progression delivering the same frenetic action, sparkling chemistry and dubious plotting as we have come to expect from practically every Abrams production.…

"Time just gets away from us."

Only the Coens. The most authentic western in modern memory, only the Coens could accomplish what they do here and they warrant rewatchability to spare. For one, the Coens are masters of language. Always have been, always will be. The way they go about capturing the Old West linguistics and dialects and transplant them into unique and unusual accents of characters is an absolute treat to experience and in the process, transplants the viewer…

The World Is More Than Enough - 30 Countries In 30 Days Challenge (15 / 30) - Australia

Just how difficult, do you think, is it to create a film that finds the perfect blend of beauty and savagery set against a backdrop that favours the latter far more than the former?

Director John Hillcoat didn't have much of a background to speak of before he directed The Proposition, and even less to suggest that he would have been capable…

"A hardtop with a decent engine, and make sure it's got a big trunk!" - Dwight

There's noir dialogue and there's noir dialogue, and this film's script falls into the latter category. The dialogue is more hard-boiled than an egg you've left in a pan on the hob for a month. It's absolutely legendary. I'm convinced that it's the best aspect of Sin City, and it was a wise choice to lift it straight from the gold mine of source…

(Forward: I've been planning this review for a very long time now. I was very excited when the film came in the mail today.)

If a film is good, I'll usually think about it for a day or two before moving on. If it's great, I'l think about it for weeks. But to think about a film almost every day for nearly six months after I've first seen it? That takes a miracle.

And Cloud Atlas is that miracle.

Now,…

TMI alert. My dad suffered from MS for the last 15 years of his life. While the onset wasn't as suddenly severe as Jean-Do's affliction, it was no less frustrating for him as time went on. To have a perfectly able mind bouncing off the walls of not-so-willing body is a terror I can never come close to imagining. The loneliness, self-pity, and helplessness of wanting to communicate, of having conversations in your mind, or merely listening to a person…

Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Impossible is a film that leaves a bad taste in the mouth. It tells the true story of a Spanish family (changed to British here) torn apart by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The film captures the horror of the tsunami and the family’s determination to survive but unfortunately the filmmakers make several dubious creative decisions along the way.

Much has been made about the film’s decision to focus on an affluent European family but the…

I am amazed by the way how Hitchcock uses a seemingly ordinary condition like vertigo/acrophobia to so beautifully craft a noirish thriller/femme fatale romance around and present us with one of the most revered films of all time. A true testament to his genius film making talent.

This film's macguffin is one of the best I have ever seen. I never saw it coming. The tracks were so well covered and well established that Hitchcock manages to easily and intelligently…

I think somewhere between this film and Raiders of the Lost Ark lies a truly perfect adventure film. And I don't mean Temple of Doom (although I do say TOD is a very under-rated movie).

For everything Raiders does right, it gets a few things wrong. The entire third act, for instance, is simply dissatisfying, and cannot live up to the rest of the movie. The Last Crusade remedies this with one of the most creative and exciting climaxes to…

Another Godard, another pleasantly inviting, off-kilter trek with charismatic outlaws. Jumping from Breathless to Pierrot le Fou couldn't have been a more serendipitous selection, as their similarities are shocking. Not just in star Jean-Paul Belmondo, nor in the tale of two lovers on the wrong side of the law, but in the vibe and content - a strike against society and its inane, mundane commercialism. Here, instead of the law, Godard has Belmondo escaping from a drab life full of…