Category Archives: cinema

>Bridesmaids

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Victor

> Occasionally I see films without any foreknowledge of what they are about or what to expect. This was one of them. I noticed from the poster that Aussie actress Rose Byrne features and so, always happy to support films with Aussie … Continue reading →

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>Water for Elephants

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Victor

> A young veterinary science student (Robert Pattinson) joins a circus and falls in love with the star performer (Reese Witherspoon) who is the wife of the circus owner (Christoph Waltz). The plot of Water for Elephants is a bit of … Continue reading →

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>Source Code

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Victor

> Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a military pilot serving in Afghanistan who finds himself unexplainably on a train to Chicago with an unknown commuter companion (Michelle Monaghan) who obviously believes him to be someone else. Eight minutes later the train is destroyed … Continue reading →

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>Something Borrowed

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Victor

> Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is secretly in love with Dex (Colin Egglesfield) who is engaged to her best friend Darcy (Kate Hudson). When Rachel inadvertently admits her love to Dex he reveals that he reciprocates her feelings. Not an unusual situation in Hollywood … Continue reading →

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>A man named desire

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Victor

> Colin Egglesfield This picture of Colin Egglesfield was taken in New York in November 2009 when Cate Blanchett and the Sydney Theatre Company were on tour, (I assume) with their production of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Egglesfield features in … Continue reading →

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>I Love You Phillip Morris

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Victor

> Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) is a brazen and astonishingly successful con artist with a wiley ability to get himself out of as well into some amazing situations. Despite his success Russell is imprisoned where he falls in love with fellow … Continue reading →

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>Brighton Rock

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Victor

> Continuing the British theme of recent posts. ‘Brighton Rock’ is a new film version of Graham Greene’s novel. The earlier film version was made in 1947. In this version the events are updated to 1964 when Mods and Rockers are flexing … Continue reading →

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>*Remember me to Herald Square

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Victor

>(*‘Give My Regards to Broadway’ by George M Cohan) There is an interesting coincidence with the reference to Herald Square contained in the famous old tune celebrating New York’s theatre district, Broadway. Herald Square took it’s name from the New York Herald … Continue reading →

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>Barney’s Version

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Victor

> Life hasn’t been kind to Barney. A short lived, ill fated first marriage is followed by a second marriage which delivers Barney to the love of his life. Unfortunately that love isn’t his second wife. And so to the … Continue reading →

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>Just Go With It

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Victor

> Adam Sandler is an unmarried plastic surgeon who pretends to be unhappily married as his means of befriending women without commitment in ‘Just Go With It’ but when one of them asks to meet his wife he enlists his secretary Jennifer Aniston to take … Continue reading →

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