When an established and regular card game is robbed, for the second time in the game’s history, the mob send out Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) to find and punish those responsible. Continue reading
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Cinema Review – Happy Feet Two
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT FILMORIA
Dancing penguin Mumble (Elijah Wood) is back on our screens, and this time he has a family of his own. Mumble’s son Erik (Ava Acres) is too shy to dance with the other penguins, and becomes enthralled with The Mighty Sven (Hank Azaria), a Swedish ‘penguin’ who has set himself up as a messiah. When a mighty iceberg traps the Emperor penguins, it is up to Mumble and his friends to save the day and Erik soon learns the value of dancing with his kind. Continue reading
Cinema Review – Moneyball
Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) is a former baseball player turned manager. His team, the Oakland A’s, are failing miserably in every game, and at the end of the season his best players are bought by bigger teams. Just as Beane thinks all is lost and there is no way the Oakland A’s can compete with bigger teams who have over double his budget; he is saved by economics wiz Peter Brand (Jonah Hill). Brand suggests that Beane stop looking at the obvious qualities of players and use a computer programme he designed to choose his starting team. Continue reading
Cinema Review – The Tree of Life
In a nutshell, The Tree of Life tells the story of a small Texan family whose world is shattered when one of their members dies. In the film, the dead boy’s mother is described as Grace – calm, nurturing and patient – and his father (Brad Pitt) is Nature. Nature is the opposite to Grace; rough uncompromising, and willing to step on any one who gets in his way. While the story is essentially a microscopic look at this family, it is also the macro – a look at the universe, it’s formation and how Nature and Grace came to be. That’s where the dinosaurs come in. Continue reading
Cinema Review – Megamind
Megamind comes to earth as a baby – saved from the destruction of his planet by his parents who send him off in a spaceship with only his faithful fish Minion for company. Unfortunately another baby – Metro Man – is sent to earth at the same time and he is everything that Megamind is not; everything goes right for him, while every plan to make friends backfires on Megamind. The rivalry between the two continues into their adulthood – Metro Man becomes the foil to Megamind’s evil genius. By chance, Megamind achieves everything he ever hoped for and begins to wonder, what went wrong? Continue reading
