Bank holiday weekend film reviews

26 May 2009 Rob Buckley Film, Film reviews 1 Comment

We caught up on a few movies over the Bank Holiday weekend. Here’s a few one line reviews.

  • The Da Vinci Code: Possibly the longest, silliest film made in human history
  • The Changeling: Excellent, with that Mad Men-eque quality of “I can’t believe sh*t like that really happened”
  • The Yes Man: Fun, perfectly cast and Zooey Deschanel is as wonderful as always, but the 18-year-age gap between her and Jim Carrey was just so icky
  • Kate and Leopold: Otherwise known as “Sabretooth and Wolverine: The Early New York years”, this was gentle but sweet, well researched for its historical details but daft in modern times
  • Star Trek: The Motion PIcture (Director’s Edition): Lots of Robert Wise/Douglas Trumbull repeating their classic work on The Andromeda Strain et al, but still desperately boring – and there’s almost minimal difference between director’s edition and regular edition as far as I can see.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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