Daviehaybhoy

I think it was primarily a film about relationships and how when two people connect, it might be down to something you can't translate. I love having a couple of glasses of wine and take it in again and again. I love hearing Jim Reid signing at the end; it's a great choice of soundtrack

Sorry?

That's why I don't read your self-indulgent posts

Aberdeen - Engaging and haunting road movie about a young woman hotshot London lawyer (Lara Headey) whose mother (Charlotte Rampling) who lives in Aberdeen contracts cancer. The lawyer; Kaisa; has a Norwegian father (Stellan Skarsgard) who's an alcoholic and she has to collect him en route and see her mother. Kaisa is a car crash and appears to have inherited her father's personality; casual sex and cocaine addiction mirror his alcoholism. Added to that the relationship with her mother is fragmented and involved lengthy separation early in Kaisa's life which she spent with Skargard and her Grandmother. The film is unrelentingly downbeat but all of the pain that occurs to the father and daughter are self-inflicted wounds. It's an emotional film without being sentimental and it is very subtle; we don't need to see what happened. The characters are superbly drawn and the acting is faultless. 9/10

Property

Wolf

Bedlam

YES! Roses in the hospital!!

I'd go for La Tritessa Durera, Roses in the Hospital or From Despair to Where. I liked that album

I loved it. Rush was superb. The central theme of forgiveness and starting life again was a particularly Catholic Christian theme.

Those two spanners from Blairgowrie were a pair of smug idiots. Good to see them lose

I read your posts and I see you. No need for any statements. I pray you remain veiled and get the place. Health care funding is a lot better now

Lawless 7/10 Luggy thinks he's the man

Typical of yoda to reject a film because of a hint of religious belief and the benefits that has for those of suitable faith. The narrow mindedness of some people astounds me

For Greater Glory Decent historical account of the Cristeros rebellion in Mexico which took place in the 1920's. The aggressively secular atheist government banned religion and in the light of the modern climate; i.e the hostility towards Catholicism in particular, I found the film particularly disturbing and chilling. The people protested against the federal government which led to the regime becoming more violent and executing clergy and shooting church goers. The armed response from the rebels includes hiring a general to try and defeat the federalists. The editing was poor, as were parts of the screenplay but the emotional heart of the film is that sacrifice in non-violence and debate ultimately effects change and not violence. 6/10

Yep just above average imo

The Sweeney Average remake of the 70's cop show which lacks the "charm" and grittiness of the original. Ben Drew should forget acting imo; he just does a mockney wide boy act which is Plan B becomes a policeman. I like Ray Winstone and he's been excellent in "Sexy Beast" and "Edge of Darkness" but he swears and growls his way through what he thinks is a John Thaw imitation. He's sadly mistaken. Decent action scenes, especially a shoot out in Trafalgar Square save it from being bad. 5/10

Lantern

^Selective hearing^ Future doesn't look good eh Bensta?

I have my hopes for Cloud Atlas but I hope it doesn't follow the by now very predictable line taken with time travel or films where the same actor plays different characters at different times in history. What's done is that there are events that are very similar so that your mind works with the film and links things together. I enjoyed that aspect of "Twelve Monkeys" and the more obvious example of history repeating itself with "Back to the Future" but with "Looper" for example I was disappointed. Very stylish film but derivative.