Change Your Image
garbgarms
Lists
An error has ocurred. Please try againReviews
Judy (2019)
Call it a comeback
As embarrassing as it sounds i had never heard of Judy garland before , my excuse is my age(27). Therefore I had not been dying to see this feature but it did grab my attention of course when Rene Zellweger won the Oscar for best female actress and after seeing this film I can see why .
Judy is set during her 1968 Visit to London which like the Marilyn Monroe film; " a week with Marilyn " works very well as it doesn't leave that awful typical biopic pattern where they try to cramp too much into nothing. This on the other hand allows us to take our time with Judy enabling us to get to know the character and with the support of timely flashbacks it begins to help us understand Judy and her crazy life in Showbiz .
Although the film is slow at times it is truly made up by how amazing Renee's performance is , a comeback of the ages.
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
Velvet? More like microfibre
Velvet buzzsaw has all the potential to be a hit , with a great cast with actors such as Jake Gyllenhal , John Malcovich , Toni Collete and Renee Russo. As we are thrown into the High end art exhibition world as artists ,dealers buyers compete within the same walls whilst dressed to the T. Never the less the set up is there but the execution fails to deliver as you never really know your place , it almost feels like a cross between final destination and a Halloween movie as the art pieces kills its victims one by one . The only thing that made this film entertaining was Jake Gyllenhals performance.
American Honey (2016)
A true tale of life on the road
More times than often especially now a days I find myself more entertained and persuaded to watch either a 40-50 mins T.v. episode or an hour and a half film, So when I found out this film was almost 3 hours I put it off as long as I could, saying to myself ill save it for a lazy Sunday afternoon.
However that lazy Sunday never came instead I found myself watching it on a Saturday night, my original thoughts going in was Ill stick with it as long as I can take and give it a chance and if its no good ill simply turn it off.
Within the first few minutes I was in, I have always been a fan of "traveling" roadie type films such as Into the wild. American Honey is like a modern take of "On the Road" yet better in every aspect, the shots finds its beauty within its simplicity that being the perfect combination of the outcasted youth as they coast from gorgeous American landscapes, rich suburbs and white trash ghettos.
In regards to the acting every now and then a film will come along with apart from Shia an unknown cast, this film sometimes finds yourself convinced they found these actors from similar backgrounds as there character, some what like the film "This is England"
All in all if you enjoy a film where you can switch off for a few hours and enjoy an emotional beautiful ride, in a story not often told then this is it