27/07/2013 The Film Review


27/07/2013

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News. To take us through this week's releases Jason is with me. We have

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the Wolverine is the big blockbuster of the week. Will my clause be out

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for Hugh Jackman as he moves from Les Miserables to just miserable. We

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have a Mexican drama called Days of Grace where everyone is football

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mad. It's a crime drama. Will I like it? And a monochrome

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love letter to New York and to its star. I'll find out if there's

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anything to laugh about. Now Wolverine, people who like

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Wolverine will like Wolverine is the motto for most of the films I would

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say. He seems to be one of those superheroes with very nondescript

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powers of superness. I don't know what he does. He has claws that come

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out. I don't know what use they are. They are good... For scratching your

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back. He's like an angry pen knife. Hugh Jackman plays this with his top

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off a lot. In this film it starts with a bang. It's the A-bomb at

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Nagasaki. He's immune from the devastation. Everyone has got

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samurai swords and they can come up samurai swords and they can come up

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swords. It should be quite good fun were it not for the fact that

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Wolverine is so miserable. I don't know what the thing is now for

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Hollywood blockbusters that the superheroes have to be on a search

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for their dark side. It's a superhero. You're based on a comic

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strip. Why not use the clause to shave off your silly beard. I do

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like Hugh Jackman. He doesn't quite submit to them. There's a lack of

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any fun in this movie. There are really good set pieces, there's one

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atop a speeding bullet train in Japan, which is breath taking. The

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rest of it is cliche and fighting. It's difficult to care for the

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Wolverine because we don't know him at all. Going to be another summer

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blockbuster that Hollywood will find disappointing? I think so, the

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blockbusters have been disappointing. The one thing I say

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for Wolverine, it doesn't have a big climax in New York where all the

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buildings are thrown. That's the best thing I can say. A bit

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negative. Days of Grace I would like to see this. Mexican crime films

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sound pretty good. Ever since the Latin Americans are on the new wave

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of cinema and burst onto the scene at the beginning of the millennium,

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they have a reputation for vibrant, style stylish crime films about the

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corruption of the big city, how police and gangsters are drawn into

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this fate, this intwined existence that they have. The Days of Grace is

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the title of the film are the 31 days of the World Cup Finals, where

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police and gangsters and politicians are so distracted by the football

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that they take their eye off the ball to watch the ball being played

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and the drama is played out at talk eye stands. This is played -- taco

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stands. This is played out over past world cups. It's a bad time to get

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kidnapped in Mexico. If you're kidnapped before the World Cup,

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you're un like unlikely to be ransomed or helped. Nobody can be

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bothered. The serious thing is that unfortunately, this is daily life in

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Mexico. I think there are amazing scenes in here. Brilliant

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photography. Amazing shots of the shanty towns, just wonderful stuff.

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There is a time where I wish the camera would stay still. There are

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too many stylistic flashy bits. He's quite a good director. It's his

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first time. He's done music videos and there's flashiness involved. But

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actually it's a smart film about a cop that we follow through these

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World Cups who becomes eventually corrupted. Francis Ha is a puzzle.

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It's black and white and the posters are in colour. That seems a very odd

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thing to do. Yes, it's a monochrome film set in Manhattan. One

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immediately thinks, if you've been watching the documentaries on the

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BBC this week and one think of rom-coms in New York of Dianne

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Kea-to-n in Anni Hall. Any cookie New York character owes something to

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Oh, I'm so glad you're here. Yoo you were great, really great. Could you

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see me? Yeah we were on the risers so we could see at the back. Sorry,

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I had to take a leak. Congratulations. Thank you.Shall we

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all go fout for a quick drink? quick drink? We have to get up

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early. We're catching a flight and meeting my parents. I haven't packed

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friend Sophie who is Sting and Trudi Styler's daughter. They're best

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friends and the girlfriend has gone off and got herself a rich boyfriend

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who is a banker. Greta realises her life is passing her by. She's still

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trying to be a dancer in New York and nothing much is happening. It's

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one of those dramas that the chapters of the film are prefaced by

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different postcodes where she ends up living. People in New York, do

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you like girls, Gavin? I mean the HBO TV series? Obviously, yes.It's

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like that. People have flat mates and they're always moving around.

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They are in Brooklyn and move. is a buddy movie for girls. There

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aren't a lot of those. There are TV series, Girls is one example. Buddy

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movies for girls are not so usual. There's another one coming out

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called The Heat. It's a new trend to get these girls to play what used to

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be just men buddy movies. This is a sort of soromance. That doesn't

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really work, we have bromance. She does it charmingly here. It's a film

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that's very slight but has a bit more impact. It's got that Woody

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Allen-ish newer rose is going on here. -- nurosis going on here. Your

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threshold for it will depend on how charming you think Greta is. I think

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some people will fall in love with her and some people will want to

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throttle her. Your best of the week is the Bling Ring, the other side of

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the United States. Back to the other coast for what I think is Sophia

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Coppola's best movie. Some people say it's shallow and dim. I thought

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it was terrific and funny and smart and very good at satirises youth and

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sympathising with youth. She really gets it. It's about the true life

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story about a group of LA girls who steal from stars' houses. Stars are

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always on Twitter telling you that they're not. There they go into

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their houses. What's charming and interesting about it is that it's

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about the ultra-materialism as much of the stars, culture and the

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society. In a way though you don't condone the thefts, there's a bit of

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you which thinks well, they're asking for it. Slightly Robin

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Hoodesque. Paris Hilton won't miss another pair of knickers. They shoot

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in her house actually. It was fascinating about celebrity culture,

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saying it's got a bad effect as a drip down. People don't want to be

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celebrities. They want to live in their houses. It's going to be a wet

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Saturday. DVD choice of the week is Side Effects. This was supposed to

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be his last film. I like Stephen Soderberg. This is a pharmaceutical

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satire thriller starring Jude Law on his best Foreman many years. Also --

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best form for many years. Also starring Rooney Mara. It's very

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smart. There's a bit where it's a bit careless. It's like you know

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what, I want to go home. He's made quite a few. And he's very good.

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You'll miss him. There is a slightly unfinished business with this film.

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This is about yuppy chulure as well. It is. -- Culture as well.It is. It

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