Hereafter

Title: Hereafter
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Written by: Peter Morgan
Starring: Matt Damon, Cécile De France, Frankie McLaren, Steve Schirripa

Clint Eastwood’s latest offering “Hereafter” is an applaudable effort but doesn’t strike as one of his best and sees the Hollywood’s hardest men take a dip in form. Focusing on death and the afterlife the film follows three characters and their search for what happens to us after we die. It’s unlike most Eastwood’s other films as he uses the multinarrative technique to construct the film, which at times is as effective as one would like it to be and at times seems a bit flat. The film follows George Lonegan a mercurial psychic haunted by his gift, Marie a French news reporter who dies for a few moments and then comes back to life and James who loses his twin brother to a hit and run. The three trudge through their existence in loneliness, anxiety and insecurity in their search for a definition of the afterlife. It’s filled with some out of this world directing especially the scene wherein Damon’s Lonegan character and Melanie – plated by Bryce Dallas Howard - discuss themselves whilst blindfolded and conducting a tasting test. Outside of that it fails to succeed where many other multinarrative films succeed it essentially lack the bang of Innaratu Gonzalez’s “Babel” or “Amorres Perros” and Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia” but does show glimmers of Eastwood’s mastery.

All in all its pleasing but not spectacular, and makes perfect sense as to why Eastwood chose the subject matter considering he’s about 80 and knocking on Death’s door. Ja Eastwood’s so effing hard he knocks on death door not the other way around.

I give it 6 Hoers.

We like to party, we like to party!

With o-week a matter of days away the excitement seems to be eating away at my butt hairs like a moth to a flame and i can't stop thinking about all the things i won't remember! So much so that i've gone and brought out some old memories like that wicked affair at Chevelle last year!

Rememeber?

No?

well check it out for a second look!

BEST THING EVER

We're bringing sexual harrassment black!

Film Society presents

Presents the ultimate O-week experience to ensure the time of your life.
Film Society in association with Golden Guerilla bring you o-week 2011: the will to thrill, 5 nights 5 pre-matches tons of give aways and a host of treats which will have your tongues wagging till the 15th of February.

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2011 Releases: Green Hornet

Indie kids love Michel Gondry like Fat chicks love asthma pumps! And rightly so, he’s just so effing post-modern and he oozes everything we’d love to believe is cool and artistic, right?
Well Gondry makes the comeback of the millennia with “The Green Hornet” the multimillion dollar block buster is well out of Gondry’s usual budgetry range. But it does have some familiar unfamiliar faces, which include Seth Rogen ( a thin Seth Rogen) Cameron Diaz and Jay Chou. It looks a lot like a menu in a Morrocan restaurant helluva interesting and colourful, and with Gondry steering this hip, I’ve got a sneaky feeling it promises just that!

Trolley Races from the future

Their very few things as important as Trolley Races, seriously, not religious holidays, not exams, not even the munchies and we love the munchies.
Its epic, bizarre, so much fun, bordering on homo-erotic and one hell of a UCT tradition, which brings a tear to many a graduate's eye.

Check it out hope it does the same for you.

Black Swan!

Darren Aronofsky's back with a new film, which i hope is as good as the last flick he gave birth to, the epic "Wrestler".
It's a psychological thriller set in the New York City Ballet revolving around the production "Swan Lake". the film sees Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman square off against each other as Ballerina's in this production under the creepy watchful eye of the dextrous Vincent Cassel. The premise of the film is whether or not Portman's character can embody the good and evil of the Swan Queen in the "Swan Lake" production. This may be the bread but not the filling of the sandwich, which is intrigue, seduction, violence and some pretty intense hallucinations.

It recieved a standing ovation at its opening at the Venice Film Festival and promises to be one of the more "Stuck up it's own arse" releases of the year which we just love!

Check it out at a theatre near you!

You'll meet a tall dark stranger (who wont mug you)

Title: You’ll meet a tall dark stranger
Directed by: Woody Allen
Written by: Woody Allen
Starring: Josh Brolin, Antonio Banderas, Naomi Watts and Anthony Hopkins

Woody Allen of old is back with his latest offering in “You’ll meet a tall dark stranger”. The film is essentially about the folly and short-sightedness of people in 21st century London and how instant gratification always trumps sense and rationality. The film follows 6 people as they toddle through their existence with temptation knocking on their door in the form of sexual and romantic bliss. It features a star-studded cast who give fantastic performances and insight into arrested development with a sincerity and tenderness which make their performances wholly believable and covertly humorous. It’s a comedy geared at an older generation, not because its jokes stink of the 20th century but rather because the characters themselves embark on foolish escapades which seem wholly feasible until actually embarked upon. These include, adultery, researching the occult, intellectual theft, midlife crisis and living beyond your means. A mention must be made of Gemma Jones, whose balls to the walls hilarious as Helena Shebritch a recently divorced older women who seeks advice from a fortune teller and takes everything she says as fact.

It’s Allen at his best sprinkled with a self-reflective humour only someone as narcisstic as fans would enjoy.

I give it 8 hoers