Shotties 2011: "Your Ma Se King Cone"

UCT Film society presents....

A battle of wits ensues between a beligerent Ice Cream vendor and self-centred meat head on the beaches of Clifton.

Directed by: Laylaa Adam
Written by: Laylaa Adam
Cinematography by: Laylaa Adam, Lola Mashabane, Lwando Nteya and Nikola Milosavljevic
Edited by: Nikola Milosavljevic, Laylaa Adam and Lola Mashabane
Starring: Dylan Rademayer and Andrew Badhah, Ashleigh von der Hoven and Abigail De Waal

Malick is black

Brad Pitt and Sean Penn star in Terrence Malick's latest offering the "Tree of life". A coming of age tale set against two different generations and how both struggle through a battle of strengths between a father and son.
It looks breath taking and Malick is easily one of the most eloquent directors alive, so i'm shivering in by UGG boots in anticipation.

Simply the best crazy stupid love

Title: Crazy, stupid, love

Directed By: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

Written by: Dan Fogelman

Starring: Emma Stone, Steve Carrell, Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei and Ryan Gosling

The story opens with Ron (Carell) and Emily (Moore) a stagnating married couple who are in the midst of getting divorced, Emily’s cheated and broken Ron’s heart and left him with nothing but a size 44 suit when he’s actually a size 42. In walks mercurial lady’s man and tall glass of water Jacob (Gosling) who takes Ron under his wing and promises to make him better, faster, stronger and make his wife rue the day she ever cheated on him. Ron’s metamorphosis begins and in the process a number of new love interests develop including the baby sitter his son secretly has a crush on, a teacher (Tomei) and Hanna (Stone). Ron embarks on his journey of self-improvement which barricaded with comedic instances and a deep seated determination to get his wife back and prove that love really does exist.

Ficarra and Requa give a master class in directing Romantic Comedy and unpack an incredibly complicated love story in a matter of seconds, they don’t butcher Fogelman’s script either, but just let it be. Framing the most delicate moments intricately and allowing the mania of comedy and zest to explode in the same frame.
It’s filled with one million and one “aaah” moments and that tenderness and honesty you need in romantic films which make them believable yet at the same time enviable.

TKO

I give it 10 hoers.

Love these slippers

Grootboom's in Cape Town and he's raising hell and "sneaking some action".
I like it, it's Capetonian, it's 2011, it's funny and it doesn't exhaust my cap.
It's also got people i know or have seen in it.
Watch out for the dance section, classic!

"what you know about my juicy wors?"

Grootboom's at it again and this time he wants you to try his juicy wors....
Love this, and love this guy.
Check it out

Worst film of the year

Title: Captain America: First Avenger

Directed by: Joe Johnston

Written by: Chris Markus and Stephen McFeely

Starring: Hugo Weaving, Chris Evans, Stanley Tucci and Hayley Atweel

Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is a skinny guy with a big heart and an incredibly resilient jaw. In the dark boroughs of World War two he fights against the odds to get enlisted into the US army so he can do his part in defeating the Nazi scum. Armed with Jehovah’s Witness persistence and an undying spirit, chance pairs him up with a drafting and the mysterious somewhat paedophilic Dr. Abrahams Erskine (Stanley Tucci). Erskine and his bad German accent are out to create the ultimate soldier not only physically, but psychologically and mentally and with ass-kicking motor mouth general Colonel Chester Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones) they set out to find the perfect soldier for their pseudo-science experiment which will result in something comically predictable.

Steve Rogers the perfect candidate fills the role and in a matter of seconds goes from skinny wimp to Joburg Ghei Roid bunny and Captain America. But in the celebrations Erskine is shot and the mysterious formula for Captain America’s creation is lost with him. Setting Captain America on a journey to avenge his friend and doctor, but not before he prances around the USA trying to sell government bonds. But fate and a limited running time sees him travel to Europe in tandem with a bunch of other good hearted men to defeat the imminent HYDRA threat, which is headed by Red Skull the only notable performancve in this shit storm of crappiness by Hugo Weaving.

It’s crap, there’s no two ways about it, from the horrible over stated CGI, to the paper thin narrative, to the 1940’s optimism to the fact that the entire thing is void of any ambiguity to the fact that Chris Evans couldn’t play a convincing douchebage and he is one! Like the horribly average ugly girl with no personality in Biology class, this film’s got noting going for it.

I give it 1 Hoer.

Thrill

Manic mondays mean we're all dragging ass and moaning at the prospect of having to do it all again, in times like these it's good to look to the biggest society at UCT for advice and this what they had to say.