Here are the movies that Tele have lately seen:
Non-Stop 2014 directed Jaume Collet-Serra.
Liam Neeson is a reliable actor who usually delivers, but all those later day action movies I at least have some trouble telling them apart.
This one takes place on a commercial airplane transatlantic flight and Liam plays an air marshall who get's text messages that someone has to die unless 150 million dollars is put into an account. It develops into a who-done-it plot in a specific place since the blackmailer sees everything and must be onboard flight.
Nothing wrong with this movie as it delivers the expected thrills, It's just that it's been done many times before. Good support from Julianne Moore who might be friend or foe.
Larry Crowne 2011 directed by Tom Hanks.
Hanks himself stars as Larry who suddenly get unemployed because of a lack of finished college degree even if he had recently been an Employee of the Month. I can relate to that since I've been unemployed too from time to time, they called it "Lack of assignments" for my special competences. Anyway Larry decides to get that College degree and starts school all over again, and make new friends.
Nothing really sticks out but it's a likable and friendly tuned story to follow.
Away We Go 2009 directed by Sam Mendes
A sort of road trip movie even if some parts go via airplanes and railways.
Expectant mother and father just learns that their parents is moving to Antwerpen, so the parents-to-be takes a trip to see if they have any other relatives to rely on in case something happens, to be godfathers and godmothers. Since all relatives are spread out, it is a bumpy ride.
Both funny and drama, with good actors, some parts are really good while some parts fall apart and becomes a bit embarrassing, but still worth a look if you have the time.
Last Embrace 1979 directed by Jonathan Demme and based on a novel by Murray Teigh Bloom "The 13th Man"
An homage or pastishe towards Hitchcock movies, including a climax at a famous landmark, Niagara Falls.
An intelligence agent who just had an emotional breakdown, returns to his bureau in hope of new assignments, but a wait-and-see answer, returning to his flat payed by the bureau, he is met by a woman, so was he expected to die...
Sure enough his old bureau did expect him to die and now tries to eliminate him again, but there is also somebody else trying to kill him for totally different reasons yet not known...
A good cast makes this worthwhile to follow plus a music score by veteran Miklós Rózsa, who once did a score for Hitchcock.
Profumo di donna aka
Scent of a Woman 1974 directed by Dino Risi and based on the novel "Il buio e il miele" by Giovanni Arpino.
I was looking forward to watch this movie, as i've read many postive reviews about it and one negative, This was to be honest a huge disappointment and the one negative review was exactly how I felt after watching it. Yelling, drinking and being abusive scenes stacked upon each others with no actual continuity than different locations. The smell or scents of women isn't much done about except a few times. Whatever humor there might have been was lost on me. Maybe it felt fresh once.
The 1992 American version with Al Pacino I wouldn't call a remake, more based on the same source material. Also learnt recently that there is a later Egyptian version from 2002
Amir El Zalam.
Casually recommended for those who wan't to watch every Oscar nominated Best Foreign Language Film.
Sammy Going South aka
A Boy Ten Feet Tall 1963 directed by Alexander Mackendrick and based on a novel by W.H. Canaway. Watched this one sometimes in the early 80's, and remember liking it, so my expectations were high now re-watching it, and this one didn't fail, my memories wasn't wrong this time.
During the Suez crises 1956 a boy's parents are killed during an air raid, so the boy decides to travel from Port Said Egypt to Durban South Africa to his only known relative, without knowing how long and how much time such a trip would be and could take, his only guide is a toy compass. As he travels south he becomes wiser.
As any movie would be, any movie with Edward G. Robinson is heightened with his bare presence, here playing an old man the boy meets on his way, who takes the boy under his wing. An illegal trader according to the law, or as he himself see it a free entrepreneur. Street wise transported to Africa, so maybe savannah wise.
My old positive thoughts about this movie still stands.
No, My Darling Daughter 1961 directed by Ralph Thomas and based on a play "
Handful of Tansy" by Kay Bannerman and Harold Brooke.
Never heard of this play but if so they did a good job opening it up.
Wealthy international industrialist (Michael Redgrave) want's his daughter (Juliet Mills) to stop behaving like a school girl at a posh private school and become a young woman that should see the world, see Paris, Hong Kong, New York and Venice, and then go to a posh private French School. The trouble with father's plan is that she might fall in love and get married or runaway and become a public scandal in the gossip press, and that happens.
It's an amusing little piece of fluff with a rather funny first half before a mistaken identity plot takes over. Having heavy weight (not in actual weight) actors like Michael Redgrave and Roger Livesey adds to the spice and Juliet Mills is so adorable.
Not a great movie by any means, but after a long day going through book ends, this was exactly the light entertainment I needed that evening.
Well that was my kind of week this time.
