Posts Tagged ‘Bruce Willis’

Action!

I have seen the best film ever made. The only problem is that this wasn’t it. It is, however, an action movie that tries quite hard to make you believe it’s a spoof of an action movie – but I certainly don’t mean that in a bad way. Yes, there certainly will be people out there who will enjoy picking holes in this movie; the cheesey dialogue, the seemingly endless supply of bullets and grenades available to our heroes, a plot so thin you can see daylight through it and an array of über-macho blokes doing what the Americans so fittingly describe as ‘blowing shit up’. Did I like it? Yeah, of course I did.

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Festive faves

Following our take on the turkeys last week, we present a selection of ten movies without which Yuletide simply couldn’t exist. A very happy Christmas to all our readers!

Not all of them have a festive setting, but there are no apologies – in terms of mood, memories and magic, these are the films that this reviewer always seeks out in the festive schedules. I hope you don’t have a problem with that? Do let me know, won’t you…

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Not-so picture perfect…

It’s time for Hollywood to get all introspective again – thankfully, director Barry Levinson is something of an old hand at being scurrilous about Tinseltown. His genuinely scathing and frequently hilarious Wag the Dog (1997) takes its rightful place among ‘films about filmmaking’ classics that include Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950), Robert Altman’s The Player (1992) and Spike Jonze’s Adaptation (2002).

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Past-it action hero

All good things…Except in Hollywood, of course, they frequently don’t come to an end, do they? With franchise ‘three-quels’ and fourth installments now all the rage, the time seems wearily appropriate for catching up with John McLane (and, this time around, his grown-up daughter) and booing and hissing at the latest evil villain, with whom he must match wits.

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Cutting hedge humour

We at Picturenose have a mind to bring you the best in films, so I make no apology for the subject of this review. Those who complain that it doesn’t count or is not highbrow enough may not only be missing the point, but also a very good movie.

Over the Hedge (2006) is apparently based on a comic strip, although I have to admit to never having read it. No matter, because it delivers laughs, a not-too-contrived story (as if talking woodland creatures were not by their nature contrived), some subtle gags for the grown-ups and a very interesting reworking of Chuck Jones’s Pepé le Pew routine.

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