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 [...]
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 [...]
‘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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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?
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Disclaimer: This time the views and opinions expressed in the post by the author do reflect the official policy or position of Filmplicity Dir. Francoise Romand Mix-Up, a 1985 “documentary fiction” film from French director Francoise Romand, describes the story of Margaret Wheeler and Blanche Rylatt, two strangers whose daughters were switched at birth in [...]