May 8th, 2012
Lifelong comic-book geek and Avengers fan ccbaxter valantly attempts to wrest his fanboy subjectivity into submission (for a while) and produce a review that is both enthusiastic and even-handed. Mostly.
Tagged Joss Whedon Mark Ruffalo Robert Downey Jr Samuel L. Jackson Scarlett Johansson The Avengers | 2 comments
February 22nd, 2012
Thanks to Ruth over at Flixchatter for kindly inviting Filmplicity to take part in a mini blogothon she has come up with in honour of the impending Oscars. Only a few short days away now. The idea is that you pick a decade from the 50s to the 90s and then any film from that [...]
Tagged 1989 Dustin Hoffman Oscars Rain Man The Best Picture Project Tom Cruise | 32 comments
February 2nd, 2012
le0pard13 is the internet moniker of a father of two, spouse to one, who blogs on family and the popular arts out of The City of the Angels. If you ask him, he’d say this about himself: ‘Born in the 50s, grew up during the 60s, and survived the 70s.’ The late baby-boomer (or maybe [...]
Tagged It Rains You Get Wet! le0pard13 Memory Movie Nostalgia Theatre Time | 52 comments
January 23rd, 2012
‘Meryl Streep manages to create a credible individual out of all the contradictions surrounding the former Prime Minister’. PLOT For those who feel a little bored with celebrity biopics and their Oscar baiting ways lately, The Iron Lady proves that portraying a famous person need not begin and end with imitation. Meryl Streep manages to [...]
Tagged Conservative Eighties Feminism History Jim Broadbent Margaret Thatcher Meryl Streep Politics Tories | 9 comments
December 10th, 2011
“Man I wish that was a food baby!” ‘To quote one of my all-time favourite characters, “Why so serious??” Relax, smile, revel in the melodrama’. At this stage in the game, a review of a Twilight film seems to be a bit pointless. Whatever I say here probably won’t determine whether or not you see [...]
Tagged Breaking Dawn part one Kristen Stewart Michael Sheen Robert Pattinson Stephanie Meyer Taylor Lautner Twilight Saga | 8 comments
October 18th, 2011
Doranman looks at Von Trier’s latest and braces himself for more of the same. Only to be surprised by a new found maturity. Has Lars Von Trier finally grown up? Has Nazism finally become kitsch? These are the kind of famous last words that invite disaster, and as Lars learned to his detriment at Cannes [...]
Tagged Charlotte Gainsbourg Kirsten Dunst Lars Von Trier | 7 comments
October 8th, 2011
Ben Wheatly lives up to his literary namesake with Kill List, the follow up to 2010’s acclaimed Down Terrace. While adding a welcome element of verisimilitude to the familiar motifs of Dennis Wheatley’s campy scare stories, the movie kind of misses the point – these things are meant to be, y’know, fun right?
Tagged Gore Horror Wheatley | 15 comments
March 26th, 2011
I love everything Movie Posters related. I also love looking up badly Photoshopped images on the internet.. So I thought I would share with you some of my favourite Badly Photoshopped Movie Posters. It’s fascinating how we fail to spot even the most obvious errors unless they’re pointed out to us. (This post was partially [...]
Tagged Disasters Movie Posters Photoshop | 7 comments
July 6th, 2010
Filmplicity would like to welcome Roisin O’Brien from around the corner and down the road (sundryandco and Roisin Recommends, respectively) to our little blog. She has kindly agreed to share her movie musings on a little film you might have missed. It’s called The Saddest Music In The World, I really enjoyed reading her review, [...]
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May 13th, 2010
Details Dir. Pavel Lungin (2009) Cast: Pyotr Mamonov, Oleg Yankovskiy. Far East of the sleepy taverns where William Shakespeare conceived his Scottish tragedy, there ruled a real life Thane of Cawdor beyond even the bard’s dark imaginings. Ivan Vasilyevich, a.k.a. Ivan The Terrible, is the subject of a new film from director Pavel Lungin and [...]
Tagged Belfast Film Festival Guest Post Lungin Mamonov Russian film The Island Tsar review Yankovskiy | 4 comments