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Superman Returns (2006)
Very like the first Superman Movie
Watching this I kept thinking I'd seen it before, or had heard that line of dialogue before. And I probably have in the first Superman Movie. However that said it's a "noughties" update of the original and it's still an excellent film, in fact probably the film they would like to have made in 1978.
Lois Lane is much better in this than the originals though - MUCH better, she actually seems tough like the cartoon strip version, Brandon Routh doesn't seem to ham it up as much and Kevin Spacey gives Lex Luthor a different twist - Gene Hackman is still better though.
My one gripe with the film is that some of the CGI bits look very obviously CGI - well what else could they I suppose - but they don't look as seamless or as slick as many CGI effects you see now. In fact in some scenes Superman looks VERY CGI.
If you like fantasy action movies developed from a comic strip they don't come much better than this
The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Shocking, absolutely shocking
One of those films that leave you cold, incredulous that some of the things depicted in the film can be true.
The story surrounds the incarceration of 3 young women into a Magdalene Laundry in Ireland, we then see them - and the other women being brutalised mentally and physically by the Nuns to a point where some of them become nothing but mindless zombies - an objective that the nuns no doubt had.
The performance of Geraldine McEwan has to the most chilling I've ever seen an actress achieve since Louise Fletcher's as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest - no doubt deliberate. And Eileen Walsh's as one of the inmates is shocking.
The scene where two of the Nun's "exercise" the women before mealtime is something you could only imagine would happen in a concentration camp...
If the film is true to the reality of what happened in these institutions you can at least take solace that the "people" involved in running them are probably rotting in the hell that they promised the women they were imprisoning...
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
You need to watch it more than once
May be it was just me, but please forgive I watched this on an overnight flight on a airline TV screen, but you need to see this film more than once just to spot the running jokes all the way through. But that's OK because you'll want to watch it more than once because it's so funny - especially all of the little running jokes...
Ralph Fiennes is hilarious as Victor Quartermaine and Helena Bonham Carter voices Lady Tottington superbly. But as ever the animation makes this so funny. I was surprised how well it worked at 90 minutes but they keep it going all the way through.
A dead cert for the animation Oscar - Nick get a new bow-tie ready!
Mon oncle (1958)
Simply brilliant
A truly lovely film, beautiful photography, lovely sets, warm, funny and sad all at the same time.
Perhaps not as funny as M Hulot's Holiday, what could be funnier than the scene of him playing table tennis in the hotel? But a really good tragic-comedy.
I love the way Tati uses the film as a kind of anti-modernism film with "L'Oncle" being the tradition vs his family's obsession with modernity - the click-click of his sister's heels on the garden pavement in their box house and her routine of starting the fish "fountain" every time someone calls is a treat.
These films should be shown more...