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Love and war This is my all-time favourite feel-good, feel-sad, feel-just-pretty-darn-emotional movie. The cast of characters is so alive, you’ll be whisked away in seconds to Britain at war and find yourself hanging on every twist and turn in the tales of three American soldiers who fall in love with local girls as they train for [...] Top Gere? Richard Gere was back in uniform just three years after Yanks (1979) as trainee naval aviator Zack Mayo in this blockbuster about the gritty life of officer training college. Mayonnaise, as his drill sergeant calls him, is determined to pass flight school and head off for a glittering career without a woman in tow [...] Lord of the dance? Hmmm. Emma Portier Davis returns with her thoughts on one of the chickiest flicks known to humanity. Rings a Belle? So, it was 39 years on, and someone decided to provide a follow-up to the classic cult film from Luis Buñuel, Belle de Jour (1967), without Catherine Deneuve returning to the role of Séverine that she made legendary. Instead of Bunuel’s surrealism, we are shown how people change. Henri Husson (Michel Piccoli, who [...] ‘Maid’ to measure Brit director Paul Weiland (a graduate from TV’s Mr Bean) and writers Adam Sztykiel and Deborah Kaplan manage to move this Patrick Dempsey vehicle away from what might justifiably have been predicted – God-awful trash – into something that’s just a little sharper and funnier than its set-up may give you cause to [...] Zut alors! I have never had a really guilty secret in my life, and that is why I need to get this off my chest. Another night in with The Divine P saw me take my eye off the ball and let her have possession of the remote control. The day I invent a remote control [...] Not quite a monarch, but never the knave There is a lot written about Cameron Crowe’s 2005 outing Elizabethtown that is negative, rubbishing the film and saying that all of it is bad. But this is wrong, as it is better than many critics have given it credit for. The photography is as fine as in [...] Blood ties Brussels-based journalist and editor Emma Portier Davis joins our happy crew, with her thoughts on the latest ‘vampire in love’ saga. This is the second instalment of The Twilight Saga, which, in case you missed the first in 2008, centres on the near impossible romance between a vampire called Edward – played by the dreamy [...] The best ‘bad’ film – ever Well, there we have it, ladies and germs – Picturenose reaches its 300th post. As ever, when these milestones occur, a big thank you is due to all our visitors and contributors, old and new. And, to mark this auspicious occasion, what better opportunity for me to finally present my [...] Noteworthy Here’s that rarest of treats – a perfectly formed confection of a film. Writer-director John Carney (On the Edge (2001)) takes us into the heart of a singer-songwriters dreams, in the heart of Ireland, and the star-crossed love (of a kind) that can be kindled at the rougher edge of existence. Glen Hansard plays [...] |
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