The fast-food guy that did McDonalds in ‘Super Size Me’ and two seasons of ‘30 Days’ on the FX Networks, is back with an all new feature about none other than Osama Bin Laden. As the premise tells us, he is trying to locate the bearded man, who seems to have vanished from earth and is really nowhere to be found. To find him he travels trough Afghanistan, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Israel and finally Pakistan.
Seeing the trailer did not bring up the question of entertainment of this movie, but rather the depth. Being familiar with his other works, I'm pretty confident though that this documentary will have a nice balance between the two. Without getting too serious, Spurlock always strikes some good notes. So what to expect is probably not a dry movie about the whereabouts of Osama, but rather an interesting and funny pop cultural movie about America and its crazy cave hunt.
Juno is a 16-year old know-it-all who just got pregnant and… doesn’t really know anything. Looking for a good couple to adopt her future child, she meets Venessa and Mark, who can’t have children of their own. The couple seems to be perfect, but maybe that’s just on the surface.
It's always good to see a movie, where the only special effect is sketched texts, manages to impress you in the theatre. The story is told in chapters, just like 'Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring', but that's about the every similarity there is between the two.
The story about this girl getting pregnant is brought very much in the view of a teenager. And by that I don't mean the view that Hollywood has of teenagers. It's certainly not brought as a teen pregnancy doom movie, but in funny and lighthearted way without taking out the seriousness of the subject. A subtle and small movie with its accents at the right place.
Bridget Jones struggles with her weight, her age, her job, her many imperfections and mostly with living without a boyfriend. After spending a lonely new year’s eve, Bridget decides to change her life. She starts keeping a diary to change her lifestyle and to finally get a boyfriend. But when her boss starts flirting with her and she keeps running into old friend Mark Darcy, who saw her running around naked when she was still a child, things are only getting worse.
While watching Bridget Jones’s Diary you just start feeling much better about yourself… Bridget is just so clumsy and always speaks her mind, which is getting her in embarrassing situations (she actually kind of reminds me of myself in some ways). Those situations are making this move absolutely hilarious. Besides that, Renee Zellweger has done a good job playing her role, she shows herself in a sweet, enthusiastic and naive way.
Of course, this isn’t the best romantic comedy ever made, but as a real pink popcorn fan, you should definitely have seen it at least once!
A little boy lives together with an old Buddhist monk at a floating temple — this may sound very wrong after doing my last post about Capturing the Friedmans, but bear with me, this is something totally different. The old man teaches him the lessons in live. But at a certain point, one has to find out for himself, right? In five episodes we see what happens to the boy when he grows up to be an old man himself.
I'm sure this won't be the last movie by Kim Ki-Duk proposed on Asian Thursday. He must be one of the most critically acclaimed South-Korean directors. Outside his own country that is. Surprisingly, in his own country he's not popular at all and they'd say 'Kim Ki-Who?'. Well, that's what you might be saying too. But if that's the case, at least consider this pearl of his collection and stick with me.
The latest works of mister Ki-Duk are chuck full of amazing cinematography. And the drifting temple in the middle of this beautiful deserted place is certainly one of them. This perfect display is combined with a profound and touching story about the life of a Buddhist monk. It's one of those stories that keeps you silenced for a couple of hours after watching. One of those that makes you rethink what you are doing. Or what we are doing. I... this will be my last post. I'm going into the forest tonight and live in peace with nature.
The Friedmans are an upper middle-class family living their inconspicuous lives. But their ordinary lives get questioned when father Arnold and son Jesse get arrested for the suspicion of molesting children. The community is sure they were doing more than just teaching little boys how to use spreadsheets in their computer class.
If you are convinced your average documentary is manipulating you, Capturing the Friedmans should convince you otherwise. It's really only a documentation. And what really happened, that's up for you to decide. Neither side seems honest. And director Jarecki balances on the neutral line between both grounds, while perfectly grasping the controversy and essence.
Remarkable in this case, are the home movies the Friedmans made when all this happened. What follows, is an emotional document about a family that gets shattered. But did they all deserve it?
