Entries by Hurtling17
Books
So Me by Graham Norton
TV's naughtiest presenter with an autobiography that actually may have been written by him....
Movies
Walk The Line
This is the story of one of country music's greatest artists, the Man In Black, Johnny Cash. It takes us from his childhood on a cotton farm, where he learns to love music from his hymn-singing mother, to his rise...
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Broken Flowers
Bill Murray seems to be back in fashion these days. God knows why. Yeah, Lost In Translation was a good movie but he doesn't seem to be capable of playing anyone else but that character - the older man who...
Movies
A History Of Violence
This has been called the best David Cronenberg film in a long time. Whilst I disagree with that statement (I think Spider was superb), this is very good film indeed. Viggo Mortensen plays Tom Stall, a family man living in...
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The United States Of Leland
Leland P. Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling) has murdered his junkie girlfriend's autistic brother. Pearl Madison (Don Cheadle) is a struggling writer who teaches at the juvenile detention hall and wants to find out the "why". "The worst part is knowing that...
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The Assassination Of Richard Nixon
A gripping story of an abandoned man driven mad....
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Closer
A film about people who don't know what love is....
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A Home At The End Of The World
Colin Farrell can do serious acting !...
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Alfie (2004)
Not as bad as the critics would have you believe. I think this was voted Worst Remake Ever in one of the movie magazine's polls. I haven't seen the original so maybe that's why I feel differently. I'm not saying...
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Birth
Nicole Kidman plays a woman, Anna, who is planning to get married after her first husband has been dead for 10 years. Along comes a boy of 10 claiming to be her late husband and who doesn't want her to...
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Layer Cake
A smart British gangster movie. Well worth seeing....
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Ae Fond Kiss
The new Ken Loach film....
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Hero
"Perhaps the most beautiful film ever made" it says on the poster....
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De-Lovely
"There's something wild about you child that's so contagious. Let's be outrageous ! Let's misbehave !" My favourite Cole Porter line....
Movies
Hidalgo
Snore. I'm too sleepy to write this review. Boring. First of all, what terrible special effects. This was meant to be an epic yet the backgrounds look fake (you can even see the outline of the actors) and as for...
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The Terminal
Tom Hanks is in this film !...
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The Motorcycle Diaries - Diarios De Motocicleta
Before Che Guevara became a revolutionary, he took a trip across South America with a friend on a motorcycle. This is based on the diaries he kept whilst travelling. This is a really interesting road movie, quite different from any...
Movies
Catwoman - by the numbers
OK, your standard superhero movie - you got your ordinary person before the superpowers arrive, shy, introverted, probably a bad dresser, maybe a bit ugly too. Check. Then you get the accident that turns them into a superhero, usually involving...
Music
Texas - The Hush
Here's an old music review I found that I did for Amazon a few years ago....
