Film Reviews by PT

The young Kinski is absolutely superb at breathing life into Hardy's Tess.

An innocent young lady, who through no fault of her own, suffers suffering on top of suffering. Beautiful countryside caught in panoramic shots compliment the beautiful Tess, culminating in the heart breaking ending. An emotional classic.

Clint is a baseball scout who's sight is degenerating. Some of the board members are unsure of his antiquated scouting ways, ie, not using a computer and relying on seeing the player in person and looking at stats from his mountains of paperwork. John Goodman who is on the board has got his back and tries to convince his daughter Amy Adams to go with him on what could be his last scouting trip, as his contract is due to end. Adams is a highly successful lawyer about to become a partner in the firm, which she has worked her butt off for, so is reluctant at first.

Father and daughter obviously love each other very much, although there are questions that Adams wants answered from parts of her unhappy childhood. Maybe the scouting trip will be the time for feelings to be resolved. Of course it's never the right time for the miserable old grouch Clint.

Eastwood and Adams are superb as the father who cannot face his feelings and the daughter yearning for love.

Justin Timberlake is a very good actor and great at playing a young up and coming scout who develops the hots for Mickey (Adams).

Being Welsh I knew nothing about baseball , now though I know everything. No seriously, I enjoyed the technical part of baseball discussed and now know a little. Very nice film.

Amy Shumer made me laugh with her outrageous humour. She wrote this comedy and I thought it was well funny, and she played the character who is terrified of a monogamous lifestyle excellently. Also really enjoyed Tilda Swilton in a great cameo as her nutty English boss.

Okay the humour is rude, so avoid if this offends you, otherwise give it a whirl. Good fun.

Clint is a DJ at a local radio station who has a quick fling with a fan. Jessica Walter is not happy with a one night stand and tries to become better acquainted, with normal courtship tactics to start, progressing to insane psychopathic measures when Clint rejects her advances. Of course he's got a steady girl whom he wishes to keep his infidelity from, which further complicate the relentless advances of the mental case Walter.

Great performance from Clint and Jessica Water.

If you liked the more modern Fatal Attraction, this film is for you.

A great film about a working class dysfunctional family and the two boxing brothers from it. Wahlberg is the current boxer, not really being well managed by his mother and older brother trainer. Fed up of being a journeyman fighter he is encouraged by his new girlfriend ( a brilliant Amy Adams as a tough talking barmaid, with a good heart underneath) to break from his domineering mother and his permanently off his face crack head brother. Bale won an Oscar for his portrayal of Dicky, and is superb as the older retired boxer who once fought Sugar Ray, but is now a total mess spending most of his time in a crack house.

Mickey (Wahlberg in a fine role ) begins to make better progress without his family, but their influence is hard to shake off and Dicky fresh out of prison wants his trainer position back.

Great performances made this true story a great film for me.

Cusack and Beckinsale meet in New York and spend an evening together, there is instant chemistry. Beckinsale gets cold feet though when she writes her number on a piece of paper and it is blown away by the wind in transition. She sees it as a sign that it's not to be there and then. Cusack's insistence that it was an accident prompts her to put into motion a few ideas that have lottery odds of them meeting again. Years later they are both destined to marry other people, but they both are still thinking of each other, although they have not set eyes on each other since that night. Their strong feelings lead them to take the more conventional way to finding each other.

Enjoyable rom com with good performances by Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack.

Amy Adams and Emily Blunt play sisters. Blunt is the wild child, whilst Adams is more responsible and ambitious (although to her annoyance she hasn't really made a success of herself yet).

Adams gets a chance to clean up crime scenes ( there's good money to be earned cleaning up blood and bodily fluids) and starts a business with a reluctant Blunt. Through working together and the events that ensue the siblings bond becomes stronger, and the tragic family event that happened to them as children is eased.

I enjoyed this movie and thought Adams and Blunt were great as the sisters, well supported by Alan Arkin as their father. Well worth a viewing if you like family dramas, with some laughs thrown in.

I seen this film in the cinema yesterday. I loved it, period.

Amy Adams plays Susan, a successful art gallery owner surrounded by the decadence of her materialistic lifestyle. Ironicallly, this love of the materialistic which she once sought to a tragic extent, is now something that she views as not so important. Unhappy in her current marriage, her husband's business interests in a crisis, which he really cares about and Susan is indifferent, set the scene for her to receive a package out of the blue. The package is a novel by her first husband, namely Jake Gyllenhall, whom she hasn't seen for 19 years.

Susan begins reading the novel, which we see in her minds eye in movie form. This fictional film runs alongside flashbacks of her first marriage, and Susan's current life.

This film is deep and meaningful and had me thinking for ages after leaving the cinema, ah that means that, ah that's what Gyllenhall novel is referring too there and there etc. Adams and Gyllenhall are superb in this movie, also Michael Shannon, very memorable as the cop in the fictional story.

I know when I watch it again I will see and understand more on the second viewing. A real touch of class.

Emily Blunt plays a terrific role as Kate, a law abiding police officer, who wants to play it strictly by the book. Volunteering for a covert operation against the drug cartels of mexico, thinking she has been offered the job for her experience in the field, the operation is far from the letter of the law which she wants.

Drafted in for this operation is the mysterious, loquacious, play by his own rules Del Toro (also excellent in the role).

A gripping film, with two great performances by the afore mentioned leads.

This film is very well acted by the four leads. Knightley and Worthington, a relatively newly married couple love each other deeply. After attending a party together, Knightly becomes jealous and upset at her husbands obvious attraction for his new work colleague (Mendes).

Swearing to her that nothing is going on, Knightly is left to stew when her husband goes away on a business trip with Mendes. On her own in New York, an old flame appears, whom Knightly agrees to have dinner with.

Worthington and Mendes also end up having a drink together the night they are away. The film watches both and their concious struggles with infidelity or fidelity.

I know I will remember this film, which to me says it all.

Fresh out of the joint George goes to see his old criminal employer Michael Caine for work. He gets a job chauffeuring high class call girl Simone. After an initial dislike of each other George starts to develop a soft spot for the beautiful Simone, and so becomes involved in looking for Cathy, a hooker who Simone used to work the seedy streets with, whom Simone obviously cares very much for.

This search leads to a devastating climax for all involved with the call girls.

Hoskins is in his element in these gangster roles and delivers a great performance. Cathy Tyson is fantastic (in her feature film debut here) as the tough, aloof Simone. Top British cinema.

Tom Hardy reminded me of Brando in this role, his acting is sensational. He plays Bob a quiet, loneley barman who runs a bar with his cousin Marv. The bar is used as a drop to launder dirty money. Hard to say much more without giving spoilers. Good story with unseen outcome.

Hardy is a brilliant character actor, slow to answer people, you can see Bob thinking of apt replies, also his not staring at peoples faces but other things as he thinks reminded me so much of Brando. Phenomenal performance and a good film to boot.

Deneuve gives an astonishing performance early in her career here. She plays Carol, a young innocent woman who lives with her sister in London.

A stunning young lady who is sexually repressed and as such this leads to a slow mental breakdown, culminating in an irrational fear of men.

Left alone in the flat, her brain begins to meltdown in the claustrophobic , haunting surroundings.

The going off of a cooked rabbit in the kitchen a symbol of her cerebral deterioration. Sexual hallucinations follow, which lead to actions in the real world.

Shot in black and white, which suits the film perfectly, this is a very arty piece of cinema. Fans of this genre should really appreciate this class film. Fantastic.

Really, really enjoyed this film about the Krays.

Hardy is phenomenal as both the twins. Thoroughly convincing as the two very different personalities of the identical twins.

I particularly liked the humorous side to the movie, and laughed out loud at many parts of the film. The humour and the laughs that Hardy provides as both the twins, in their different ways, makes it all the more realistic when they turn on the violence.

Emily Mortimer is great as the love of Reggie's life, Francis, played as a naive and fragile young lady. Strong cameo by Tara Fitzgerald as Francis's mother too, against her daughters relationship with the gangster.

In two days I watched it twice, liking it even more the second viewing, as I appreciated Hardy's extraordinary acting nuances even more.

Okay this is not the greatest offering from the coen brothers, but I enjoyed it anyway. The storyline that runs through the film is the kidnap of actor Baird Whitlock , Clooney , who is very funny as this dim witted actor.

This loose storyline is used to look at the Hollywood of a bygone age. There are some great cameos by a number of stars. Ralph Fiennes is great as Lawrence Lawrence (the second name pronounced differently) a posh English director. Scarlett Johansson lights up the screen as DeeAnna Moran, definitely supposed to be Esther Williams, indeed the water sequence is reminiscent of Million Dollar Mermaid. She is brilliant as the innocent star in front of the cameras and a diva off. Film buffs might be interested to know though that the adoption plan for Moran's baby in the film is based on Loretta Young though, not Williams.

Also great performances from Swinton, Channing and Ehrenreich. I'm sure fans of the so called golden age will know who these actors are impersonating in an over the top , fun way.

All in all, enjoyable.