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Category Archives: True story
Frost/Nixon
9/10 (2008) Next week, Oprah Winfrey, the human car alarm, will sit down with disgraced cyclist and all-round egomaniac Lance Armstrong to discuss the unravelling of his recent web of lies. Unfortunately, instead of giving Armstrong a deserved grilling, I … Continue reading
Posted in All Reviews, Drama, History, True story
Tagged Frank Langella, Kevin Bacon, Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Sheen, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Ron Howard, Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones
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Argo
8 / 10 Have you ever heard of Lasse Viren? He was a 23-year-old Finnish policeman who qualified for the 10,000m run at the 1972 Munich Olympics. In the final, he tripped and fell, Gillard-style, just before the halfway mark. All … Continue reading
Posted in All Reviews, Drama, History, Thriller, True story
Tagged Alan Arkin, Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Clea DuVall, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, Scoot McNairy, Tate Donovan, Victor Garber
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SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden
3/10 Also known as Cazando a Bin Laden / Hunting Bin Laden Spoiler alert: Osama Bin Laden is killed at the end of this movie. Now I’m as happy as the next guy, that they finally killed Bin Laden (assuming the … Continue reading
Changeling
3 / 10 2008: Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich. The newspaper I get delivered at work is coming with a free DVD every day this week. That’s 7 free movies for those unfamiliar with weeks. During … Continue reading
Posted in All Reviews, Crime, Drama, True story
Tagged Angelina Jolie, Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich
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Red Dog
7 / 10 2011. I arrived at my mum’s house yesterday to see a DVD on the kitchen bench. “What’s this?” I asked. “Red Dog!” she replied, as if I had just asked her what planet we were currently on. … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, All Reviews, Australian, Family, True story, Underdog
Tagged John Batchelor, Josh Lucas, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Loene Carmen, Luke Ford, Rachael Taylor
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The Intouchables
9 / 10 (2011) Directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano. Starring Omar Sy and Francois Cluzet. The normal reaction to finding out that a Frenchman has lost the use of his body is, of course, hilarity. So it shouldn’t be such a surprise that … Continue reading
Machine Gun Preacher
5/10 Directed by: Marc Forster Starring: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon Did you know that when you get baptised, God sends an angel straight down to Lowes to pick you up a nice pair of chinos and a crisp chequered shirt so … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Biopic, Book-to-Film, True story, War
Tagged Gerard Butler, Marc Forster, Michael Shannon, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Childers
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
8/10 Directed by: Julian Schnabel Screenplay by: Ronald Harwood Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Max von Sydow “I can imagine anything”, utters former editor-in-chief of Elle, Jean-Do (played by Mattieu Amalric), before we are taken on an exhilarating jaunt of … Continue reading
Moneyball
6 / 10 (Read Dicker’s review – 8/10) 2011. Directed by Bennett Miller (Capote). Screenplay by Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List, Gangs of New York) and Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network). Starring: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman. In this film adaptation of … Continue reading
Posted in All Reviews, Biopic, Book-to-Film, Drama, Sport, True story, Underdog
Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Bennett Miller, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steven Zaillian
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Cool Runnings
9 / 10 1993. Disney. Starring John Candy, Leon Robinson and a couple of others who you’ll remember when you see them. ’nuff people say, you know they can’t believe, Jamaica, we have a bob-sled team! They just don’t make them … Continue reading
Posted in All Reviews, Comedy, Sport, True story, Underdog
Tagged Disney, John Candy, Leon Robinson
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