True Grit

This is the definition of cinematic.

Absolutely sublime. it is extraordinary in every sense. Top of the list has to be the cinematography which is just perfect. then there's the script, the pacing, the tone, the story an the performances.

Ahhh the performances - normally i'm against little kids being up for Oscars as i think it's all a little bit pathetic. However, Hallie Steinfeld deserves all the credit she is getting - a brilliant "gritty" performance and all this from her first feature, lets hope she doesnt turn into a drug addled slut like lindsay lohan and a load of other child stars.

Not gonna go on too much about how good it is. just go see it and wallow in its immenseness.

perfection
5Stars

A SERIOUS MAN

This film is mildly enjoyable, but certainly isn’t the amazing film that has been written about. it appears to me a very Jewish film with a fair bit of Jewish humour that I think passed over my head. There are some wonderful moments in the film but they are short lived, and the great characters that are so often prevalent in Coen brothers films just aren’t here. My favourite character is one of a schoolboy constantly calling everyone fucker and fuck this and fuck that. Sadly he is in the film nowhere near enough me.

The film centres around Larry Gopnik played brilliantly by Michael Stuhlbarg in what is his first major film role, and how his life is crumbling around him with his wife leaving him and his children and his brother all causing him hassle not to mention a South Korean student (another brilliant character I wanted to see more of) trying to bribe him.

All in all it is a nice film, but not the classic it has been touted as.

3 stars