Movie catch up weekend so
Year Of the Dragon - Michael Cimino’s excellent Chinese gangster movie with a superb performance from Mickey Rourke - unrecogansible from the ravaged being we now know and love - admittidly the romance with the Chinese TV star is laughably preposterous but very effective none the less.
Twilight Eclipse - better than the second one but still fairly dull - all that teenage mooning is beyond tedious- and the scene in the tent was defintaly straying into Brokeback land - if you wern’t a vampyre I’d take you firmly from behind….and was reminded of Date Night with Jacob - for God’s sake put your shirt on…...
In a Dark Place - modern update on The Turn of the Screw - creepy and very atmospheric - with good performances from both leads and a curious enigmatic ending - well worth it
Toy Story 3 - everything I expected and more - from that great Western opening to Ned Beatty’s evil bear and the whole Indiana Jones sequence in the landfill site - it was terrific - and Buzz turning Spanish is one of ther funniest things I’ve seen in ages…..and did I cry at the end? - what do you think…..
Frozen - dear god as an exercise in pure terror it takes some beating - simple idea - 3 college kids get stuck on a chairlift when everyone goes home but so much tension is built you are a gibbering wreck by the end - not for the faint hearted - several scenes will have you more than wincing….
