by Felipe Rosa
The Palm Beach Story: what a delightful little farce by Preston Sturges, one of its old masters. The cast is great at throwing those zingers as they were the most natural things to be said, and what wonderful dialogue that is. And, again, a 60+ year old movie that sounds modern even today.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: comedy
by Felipe Rosa
Desk Set: in spite of the rushed and unconvincing romantic element introduced late, this is just such a great pleasure to watch. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are characteristically great, the dialogue zings, the story makes sense (and still today resonates).
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: comedy
by Felipe Rosa
Happythankyoumoreplease: out of the 7 or 8 relationships in this rushed, underdeveloped, badly written film, about half of one is worth paying attention to. The characters are uninteresting, too. And I wonder why the decision to go handheld/steadicam was taken: it doesn’t make sense to the story. Unhappythankyoucanigohomenow.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: bottom, romantic comedy
by Felipe Rosa
Megamind: it’s typical DW animation fare. Fun and completely forgettable. There’s nothing here, storywise or aestheticswise, to differentiate it from most of their other movies.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: animation, super hero
by Felipe Rosa
Take Me Home Tonight: one would think that 20+ years later something new would be added to that 80’s teen movie formula. Not here. Someone not familiar with faces could watch this in 20 years and think this was indeed done in 1987. It borrows everything, adds nothing (almost: the drug use is more honest here). In fact, I think that the blonde girl drives the same car the blonde girl drove in License to Drive.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: romantic comedy
by Felipe Rosa
Sunshine Cleaning: this could have been interesting, in particular with this principal cast. However, the story and the characters seem to belong to different movies, and the story just goes from nowhere to nowhere passing through nowhere as well. At least it’s consistent in that regard.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: comedy, drama
by Felipe Rosa
Rango: just to make it unequivocal, great! One has got to love the odd mix of (mostly) Leone’s “The Man with No Name” series, Chinatown, visual cues out of Star Wars, just to name a few of the more obvious things. The character design is different, risky and wonderful. The end result is an animated movie with brains, heart and soul, a rare presence in (US’) landscape today.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: animation, comedy, fantasy, western
by Felipe Rosa
Animal Kingdom: what a little, quaint movie this is. It’s emotional dettachment is enormous, which may as well be, since the characters in this are not deserving, for the most part, of any connection. I was expecting a little bit more of Jacki Weaver, after reading so much about it, but hers is for sure the best character in this.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama
by Felipe Rosa
The Adjustment Bureau: as it’s usually the case with (good, it’s true) science fiction, it has something to say about the human condition. While it falls a bit in the pitfalls of preachiness at the end, it must be commended by going for a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” path. Good cast, too.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: sci fi
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