clubbed

here's one more film to see asap...

"Now here’s something you don’t see every day. A gritty Britty gangster film with an upbeat you-too-can-change-your-life message. That’s right: make fear your friend, ’fink positively, don’t forget to kick your foes in the goolies and you, my son, will become a real ’ard geezer. Divorced and self-loathing loser Danny (Mel Raido) decides to fight back after life and local gangsters give him a going-over. The setting is Coventry in the 1980s, the suits are sharp, the soundtrack is cool and the first part of the director Neil Thompson’s film is an engaging single-dad drama, but it soon descends into the usual batter-and-blood gangster fare. Still, it’s a good first feature effort from Thompson." from the sunday times (18 jan 09)

Find out more about the film on the official website: www.clubbedthemovie.com.

1939 vs 2008

'I won't defend the Cukor film as one of his best, because Luce's play doesn't like the idea of feminism much either. But at least, in his hands, it zipped along with wit and an ace cast, and didn't sit there stinking up the screen.' (Tim Robey)

in the new version, 'Meg Ryan stars as Mary Haines, whose husband is having an affair with a spritzer girl from the perfume counter of Saks (Eva Mendes, struggling in the Joan Crawford role). Annette Bening handles the Rosalind Russell part well enough, but only Candice Bergen, as Mary's mother, has anything witty to say: 'Don't be bitter, it leads to Botox.' (Jason Solomons)

directorspective : david lean

to start a season dedicated the british film director David Lean's classics at the barbican here's the trailer from 'brief encounter'.

'Born in Croydon in March 1908, Lean worked his way through the ranks of the film industry, from clapper boy to editor to director, to produce some of the greatest works in the history of British cinema.'

and if you book 3 or more films you'll only pay for £5.00 each!