a thinking-person’s quick guide to current cinema

 

• “The Secretary dramatizes the healing power of the one who gives in.”

   

• “In Blue Crush, a teen-age girl doesn’t just do the usual and come of age. She becomes a woman.”

   

• “Memento rides Oscar momentum so, hurry, catch it up on the big screen. See if you can figure out who killed Lenny’s life —— oops, I meant wife.”

   

• “Worried about your weight and feeling sorry for yourself? Put all the bad stuff in your diary and take all the good stuff to the office!” Bridget Jones’s Diary

   

• “No Man’s Land tells you everything you never wanted to know about war, making you shake your fist at the sky and shout ‘there’s got to be a better way’.”

   

• “Romance, by definition, ends in tragedy. Think Romeo and Juliet. But love lasts forever. Think Casablanca.“

   

• “Forget the critics, Vanilla Sky is a wake up call you don’t want to miss.”

   

• “Honey, take your honey. Amelie is a four star date movie.”