Favourite Films

Frightened Rabbit Talk Film

Posted by in The Sound Of Movies
25/03/10

Throughout the film Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, the titular pairing are seeking their new favourite band ‘Where’s Fluffy?’ A band so orgasmic that they’d run all over town to hunt them down, a band that graces every compilation CD the pair ever make, a band so good that they couldn’t possibly feature in the movie itself for fear of bursting the ‘perfect band’ bubble.

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Yet if the producers ever make Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist 2: We Told You It Was Infinite, they couldn’t do any better than cast the Scottish rockers, Frightened Rabbit, in the role of ‘special ones’. For starters no other band can use the word ‘cunt’ in a song so moving it brings me to tears.

They’re also great enough to chat movies with us…

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The Bounty Hunter

Posted by in Reviews
25/03/10

The biggest compliment I can pay The Bounty Hunter is (and this is a genuine compliment) that it is exactly what you’d expect it to be, nothing more nothing less. The latest offering from director Andy Tennant (Hitch, Fools Gold) is a fairly typical rom-com which see’s Gerard Butler’s down on his luck bounty hunter tasked with tracking down his ex-wife played by Jennifer Aniston who, for all you trivia fans out there, previously worked with Tennant twenty years ago on the much maligned Ferris Bueller Tv series.

Not really a taste of paradise

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Jennifer Aniston vs Rachel Green

Posted by in Blog, In Our Humble Opinion
25/03/10

After catching a couple of the one hundred million reruns of Friends on E4, something quite obvious occurred to me; Jennifer Aniston is a damn good actress. I was always a fan in the late nineties and early noughties but Friends just like my favourite cheesecake, gets a bit sickly after a while so I gave it up for a bit. My recent revisit however reminded me just how funny she is with her exceptional comic timing, she won a Golden Globe after all. So after seeing a poster for The Bounty Hunter I wonder what on earth is she doing making these rubbish films?


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Jeffrey Lewis Talks Film

Posted by in Favourite films
22/03/10

In the second of our “find people we love and ask them to talk about movies they love” piece its Jeffrey Lewis!

I’ve always heard that the man’s ridiculously approachable and good to fans but wasn’t quite expecting an instant affirmative reply and interview. Cheers Jeff!

Oh yeah, he’s also an awesome song and comic-writer who does a great line in Watchmen analysis. He’s damn funny to boot.

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Laura Marling And Friends

Posted by in In Our Humble Opinion, New this week, The Sound Of Movies
22/03/10

On the back of plaudits aplenty, including a nomination for last years Mercury Prize, Laura Marling is in an enviable position as the darling of the nu/pop/anti/whatever-folk scene. Supporting Neil Young and being likened to every female songwriter goddess from Joni Mitchell to Joan Baez, are accolades that most career musicians would give their eye teeth for. That this bright young thing hasn’t even reached the age of 20 yet is nothing short of remarkable.

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Using this new found notability Laura Marling chose to share with the London crowd the people and music that shaped her career so far. From the moment Ian McKellen’s dulcit tones informed the audience to switch off their phones, the congregation was settled into a very special evening indeed.

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Finding Neverland

Posted by in Favourite films
22/03/10

How do you go about deciding on your favourite film? It’s likely that the first film that comes to mind is something you decided on a while ago and haven’t thought over for a while, or something you watched recently that you remember you enjoyed. Does that make it the one?

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And what should be the criteria? When I started thinking about this, I immediately came up with five or six candidates. Then I realised I was trying to ignore the blockbuster (Avatar, Star Wars, Titanic etc), or the traditionally more niche favourites (see Garden State, Eternal Sunshine) to try and show I’d really thought about it and wasn’t picking the obvious.

Then, trying to stop myself doing this I looked at the list of films that sprang to mind. They were all great films, to be sure, but my favourite film of all time? The film I was going to nail my cinematic preferences to the internet mast with. Was I really considering these ones?

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How To Be A Role Model

Posted by in In Our Humble Opinion, The Sound Of Movies, Uncategorized
22/03/10

A few weeks back Britain woke up briefly to notice the state of its underage offspring, scattered around like trussed up refugees from a Paul Gadd pyjama party. But after a few hours a shinier and more interesting ball of political shit slinging hoved into view and the whole issue was dropped faster than Lindsay Lohan’s knickers.

For the media to ignore this problem for whatever reason is one crime and certainly a reprehensible one but to conveniently pick it up, fondle it for a few hours to fill some 24 hour news and then repress it the next moment like o so many drunken mistakes is horribly irresponsible. And the upshot of this complete lack of moral responsibility is Lady Blah Blah’s new range of porn films for children.

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I Love You Philip Morris Review

Posted by in Reviews
19/03/10

Jim Carrey is a gay. (No he isn’t – Legal Ed) For proof of this lawsuit-baiting sentence we need look no further than the titles of his films. For starters Liar, Liar confidently exclaims the closet led nature of his life, as does The Mask. The Cable Guy is basically a very unsubtle ‘gay for pay’ porn star’s nomenclature. Then there’s Yes MAN, The TruMAN Show and MAN On The MOON (as we all know ‘MOONing’ is presenting one’s bum for display purposes).

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You get the idea. And continuing the pattern, here’s Carrey’s latest, I Love You Philip Morris.

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Four Lions Trailer

Posted by in Uncategorized
18/03/10

Very few people have the Midas Touch when it comes to comedy; Chris Morris is one of the few. From his radio days outraging BBC bosses, to cameos in I’m Alan Partridge and The IT Crowd, to his full-on shows The Day Today, Brass Eye and Jam, there isn’t a bum note to be found.

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His tendancy to take people for the proverbial ride (see ‘here’ and ‘here’) may have made people sceptical of his first foray into feature films when it was announced that he’d be writing and directing a British-set, Jihadist Comedy. Thankfully this is no prank.

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Corey Haim. Death. By Stereo.

Posted by in In Our Humble Opinion, News
18/03/10

Yesterday 80s icon and actor Corey Haim was laid to rest at a small ceremony in his hometown of Toronto. He was pronounced dead in his apartment last week. Pending toxicology reports, the cause of his death is unknown but surmised as a result of prescription drug overdose. Corey Haim was 38 years old.

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His untimely death comes in a string of celebrity passing in the last couple of years and serves as a sad reminder that for every Drew Barrymore success story, there is a counterpoint of tragedy rinsed through a ruthless industry when children are denied their childhood to succeed.

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