Monday, February 21, 2011

An Ideal Husband: The first time that I saw this movie I didn't love it, but I really loved this movie when I recently saw it. The movie is adapted from a play by the same name by Oscar Wilde and the cast was superb. I love the witty language and characters.

Much Ado About Nothing: This is my favorite of Shakespeare's works and I don't think it could be done better. Kenneth Branagh both directs and stars in this movie as Benedick. This movie has a wonderful cast including Emma Thompson as Beatrice (a very great pairing as the couple was married at the time and are both wonderful actors). This movie is funny, dramatic and romantic, all the things it should be.

Another Thin Man: The third in the Thin Man series. I think that in most cases the movies in an extended series don't improve as they go, while this movie was pretty good, and even possibly better than the second, I don't think that it was better than the original. It was quite an intriguing mystery plot however.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Toy Story: I haven't watched this movie in ages, it was fun to see it again and it was still very enjoyable, however I was watching with two little boys, one who's learning English and there were more "stupid"s etc. than I would have liked this little boy to hear, those are of course the words that little boys pick up.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Amazing Grace: This movie's been on my to see list for a while, and recently I've been reminded of it a few times to where I finally watched it and it's a wonderful movie, both a well crafted movie and a wonderful story being told of William Wilberforce and the abolition of slavery in England.

About A Boy: I thought I'd posted about this movie already but perhaps it was one of the ones that got accidentally deleted. Anyway it's a movie about life, about growing up, and about needing other people in your life. Hugh Grant plays a man who doesn't have to work, who deems himself to be an island and essentially has not responsibilities in his life... that is until he meets a boy named Marcus. Marcus' life is pretty much the opposite, he and his mother live alone and live a more hippy lifestyle. Marcus is miserable in school where he doesn't fit in and miserable at home where his mother seems to suffer from depression and attempted to take her life. Together Marcus and Will (Grant's character) help each other, to grow up or to be able to be a kid. It's a movie that's quite funny despite the seriousness of some aspects.