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NOT: The Time Traveler’s Wife

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ November 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I dithered a bit about whether to give The Time Traveler’s Wife a HOT or NOT. It was a moderately pleasant experience and I didn’t feel like I’d wasted 2 hours of my life, but would I encourage my friends to see it? Probably not – basically because it could have been so much better. [...]

HOT OR NOT? The Boys are Back giveaway

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ November 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Welcome to the first BNE: HOT OR NOT giveaway! I have a couple of double passes for the new film The Boys are Back which are valid for all major cinemas during the film’s theatrical season, even with ‘No Free Tickets’ listing. I reviewed the film recently and gave it a NOT, but that’s not [...]

NOT: The Boys are Back

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ November 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The Boys are Back is director Scott Hick’s (Shine) latest film about family, fatherhood and boys. The movie is based on ‘The Boys are Back in Town’ the 2001 memoir of The Independent columnist Simon Carr, and it was shot on location in South Australia, turned into an almost unrecognisable romantic landscape of swaying golden [...]

HOT: Genova

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ November 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

On the surface The Boys are Back and Genova are both films are about men who lose their wives in tragic circumstances and have to cope with being a single parent to two children. However, I’ve been trying to work out the differences between the films which meant that I gave The Boys are Back [...]

HOT: The Brothers Bloom

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ November 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The Brothers Bloom is a light-hearted caper film filled with lovable characters, fiendish rogues, an outlandish cross-continental storyline and sight gags galore. The story starts with Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) and Bloom (Adrien Brody), two orphaned brothers who first discover the satisfaction of conning others as young kids. Shunted to yet another foster home in a small [...]

HOT: Moon

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ November 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I thought that Moon might end up being an unreviewable film. Thanks to an errant alarm clock and coding-induced insomnia, I found myself dozing during key moments of the film, leaving me in a fog of confusion for most of it. That’s not to say that the film was sleep inducing, as everybody else in [...]

HOT: Julie & Julia

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ October 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Of course I enjoyed Julie & Julia. I love to eat, I love to cook, I love to blog. I have a very understanding partner. I work in an office and I’m a Francophile. The only difference is that I’ve never lived in Paris or New York City and I’ve never deboned a duck. Julie [...]

HOT: An Education

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ October 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

[Spoiler alert] On paper, the storyline to An Education sounds very trite. A pretty and smart 16 year old girl from the suburbs ditches school and the possibility of attending Oxford in order to marry an older, richer man who shows her the ways of the world…but who’s hiding a mysterious past. That’s until you [...]

HOT: Mao’s Last Dancer

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ October 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I have no idea why Mao’s Last Dancer has only received middle-of-the-road reviews. I was on the brink of tears for most of the film, until the end when the dam burst into an ugly-screwed-up-face fit of uncontrolled bawling. RM admitted even he was getting teary. So, five stars for emotional effect. The rich, lush [...]

HOT: Valentino: The Last Emperor

By Jetsetting Joyce ⋅ September 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In Valentino: The Last Emperor, legendary Italian haute couture fashion designer Valentino pronounces that he knows what women want – women want to be beautiful. After watching a documentary filled with Valentino’s jaw-droppingly glamourous dresses, I confess I think this short perma-tanned gay man might just be right. Stuff paid maternity leave and workplace equality [...]