The Beaver (2011) Review
Walter Black has a few problems when splitting up from his wife, struggling to cope with depression he adopts The Beaver as his means of communication. With a different accent he communicates with everyone through the beaver.
A Dangerous Method (2011) Review
The relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud helps launch psychoanalysis but Russian patient Sabina Spielrein comes between them.
Why The Artist is a Truly Fantastic Cinema Experience
It’s 2011 . . . it’s in black and white . . . it’s a silent film . . . it’s ‘The Artist’ . . .
A very risky move to make not only a black and white movie but also a silent movie. In the world of current cinema, with the high budgets for action sequences and having the most famous actors in them. All about box office and how popular films are with critics. Then came ‘The Artist’ which would ask the question: Do actions really speak louder than words?
YES
Top 10 – Best Films of 2011
This is my list of what I thought to be the top 10 films. I have not seen every film released, so please take that into consideration! Remember this is what I saw in the cinema in 2011. All of the films on this list may have slightly different reasons for being on it, but I will try to give my reasons as we count down. Mainly they are on the list because I enjoyed them and they left a lasting impression.
No Strings Attached (2011) Review
Emma and Adam have known each other for years and their paths keep crossing at different stages in their life. This leads to them deciding to have a strictly physical relationship, but is that actually possible?
The Muppets (2011) Review
The much-loved Muppets are back on the big screen! They must reunite to save their old theatre from a greedy oil tycoon, with the help of three fans.
The Descendants (2011) Review
Matt King’s world is turned upside down when his wife ends up in a coma after a boating accident. This sees him reconnect with his two daughters and start the grieving process.
The Artist (2011) Review
Silent movie star George Valentin has his world turned upside down when talking pictures are introduced. We are taken on the journey with him in an incredible film which really does show that actions speak louder than words!
The Iron Lady (2011) Review
A look into the life of the first female Prime Minister in Great Britain. An old Margaret Thatcher who is suffering from dementia, we see her story in flashback form.
Haywire (2011) Review
An agent working for a private company suddenly finds herself outcast after she is betrayed and set up on her latest mission.
The Adjustment Bureau (2011) Review
A Politian and ballerina feel destined to be together but something is keeping them apart. All because it is not in the plan . . .
Top 10 – Worst Films of 2011
This list is pretty explanatory, the 10 films I found to be the worst in 2011. Don’t forget though I have not seen every film which was released last year. So choosing from this list of films I went to see at the cinema.
10. Larry Crowne (Review)
I hate that I have put a Julia Roberts film in my 10 worst films of 2011, but I was so disappointed by this film! I was expecting too much from it and it really didn’t offer anything at all.
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) Review
Ethan Hunt is back for the fourth time and must work with his time rouge, when IMF goes into ghost protocol . . . meaning none of them even exist anymore.
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 160,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 7 days for that many people to see it.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Review
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig) is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander (Mara), a young computer hacker.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) Review
The second installment of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. in the lead role with Jude Law as his trusted friend Dr Watson.
Arthur Christmas (2011) Review
What if Santa Clause went hi-tech and one little girl come Christmas morning was not going to have a present to open from Santa?
Dream House (2011) Review
A family moves into a new house but everything is not as it seems when it unfolds that a family was killed in the house years earlier.
New Year’s Eve (2011) Review
This film shows us how different people in New York spend their New Year’s Eve. We share the laughs and nice moments, maybe even a few tears shed as well.
My Week with Marilyn (2011) Review
Colin Clark spent a week with Marilyn Monroe when she was in England filming The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier.
Breaking Dawn: Part I (2011) Review
The beginning of the end for the Twilight Saga see’s the first part to Breaking Dawn released at the cinema. This one is a strange one for myself as I stopped reading the book halfway through . . .
Anonymous (2011) Review
What if William Shakespeare did not write any of his works and Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford had instead . . .
Machine Gun Preacher (2011) Review
The story of Sam Childers who was a drug addict biker who found god and became a crusader for hundreds of children in Sudan.
Real Steel (2011) Review
In the near future in a world which wanted more than human boxing – as it was no longer seen as violent enough, robots now compete in the fights. Destroying each other into lots of pieces.
