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Definitely worth a look. Oldboy is one of the best films of the last decade: Korean revenge thriller meets Greek tragedy. Brilliant visual touches. Sympathy is also excellent, a wonderful look at perspectives and guilt. Lady Vengeance is the weakest of the three, overlong and messy. But again it has...

Hmmmm 14 sounds like J-Lo in the Cell

The White Ribbon 6/10 This is actually a good score for Michael Haneke, who I usually find pretentious beyond belief. Even Cache, which was critically lauded, is a film I found to be ambiguous just for the sake of being ambiguous, and not to represent anything higher. The White Ribbon is similar, in...

EP2 of V really doesn't make me want to continue watching it

Phew, Spielberg doing Oldboy sounded like the worst film on the planet

Whatever Works: 4/10 Not particularly funny, nor interesting. Larry David is a poor actor when he's not playing himself. Evan Rachel Wood actually wasn't bad, but her character was merely a caricature, and when she's that one-dimension there's really no point in caring about her. As NSPan said, the ...

Yeah I really hoped Cronenberg got paid for the Mohinder storyline. I watched the premiere of Season 4 and was so uninterested in the carny storyline that I've yet to return. Only 5 more days until the "modernised" version of The Prisoner is shown on AMC. I'll be eagerly watching it (once it's avail...

I've seen it years ago, and really liked it. Mitchum's character becomes such an unstoppable and shady force that he almost becomes an abstract image of fear (or, if you are to compare the film to No Country for Old Men, violence)- perhaps that's why you make the connection with David Lynch, NSpan?

It's an interesting point about Scott being that you'd call a salary director, someone who takes on multiple genres and adapts multiple styles. Perhaps its from his early days as an ad man and so HAD to take on different styles, tones, visual sets, etc. But it is worth noting that while Scott has ma...

I thought Inglourious Basterds is the most polarising film around. Never have I had friends who love a movie so much and other friends who hate it. And Boosch, from what I've read, the main criticism about WTWTA is that the story is too insubstantial to warrant its 100 minutes, but I haven't seen it...

49 is The Wedding Singer, Billy Idol

You know, I had such high hopes for Kaufmann after BJM. And then I saw Adaptation, and felt as if he was already out of ideas. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was quite good, and I've mixed feelings about Eternal Sunshine.... But if you realy want to prove Kaufman has not lived up to expectations, w...

I hope you're in the minority, Shrykester, I loved Being John Malkovich. It's one of the best of the 90's as far as I'm concerned. It's a brilliantly twisted love story that takes on our obsession not just with celebrity, but our obsession to be another person, to not accept ourselves. I haven't see...

The Men Who Stare at Goats 5/10 While the trailer seemed amusing there realy wasn't much else to the film. There's the scraps of a plot but mostly it's a gently funny film about military insanity. But even though the film spends the first 2 acts mocking the delusions of these soldiers, it spends the...

Well Land of the Dead must have been an exception as he was awful in it