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If you like movies like In Bruges, Perrier's Bounty, and Snatch then I cannot recommend highly enough that you go out ASAP and see The GuardI just saw it tonight and it was awesome! Funny, snarky, clever, well-written, intelligent, and oh so very wrong in all the right ways. :D No surprise that lead actor Brendan Gleeson, one of the main reasons ( Read more... )

And I'm being exceedingly slow about it this year. I managed to write 47 reviews (or pico reviews) out of the 70 some odd movies that I managed to see this festival. I hope to finish up, catch up and have reviews for everything this coming week or so, though obviously that won't be of much use to most people now. ;) Still, there are some movies ( Read more... )

Well, I have to say that I'm extremely disappointed in the Best of SIFF lineup for next weekend. Most of the films are ones that I either saw (and those are good choices) or had little to zero interest in seeing. There were definitely far better films that could have been picked than were picked, alas. There are, of course, a few exceptions, but in ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a weird SIFF for me this year. Not sure why writing reviews has been more of a chore than a pleasure, but such is life I suppose.

Here are some quick recommendations for the final day. They're barely even pico reviews, but there ya go.

Poupoupidou - Definitely one of my favorite films of the festival. The trailer is amazing and ( Read more... )

Yesterday I lamed out for the most part. Didn't feel like dragging myself out for press screenings, and nothing I really felt like going out to that evening either. It was really quite nice, actually, to just have a relaxing day at home doing nothing to cleaning and reading and napping. Ahhhhhh ( Read more... )

Well, Wednesday was all kinds of disappointing. We were supposed to have a press screening of Norwegian Wood (which was really the main reason I went to the press screenings in the first place), but the copy they showed didn't have subtitles. Gee. Thanks. Second movie was okay, but the third movie (which was supposed to be Spud got replaced by a ( Read more... )

Love Crime - A smartly wicked retelling of All About Eve, this film is a strong proponent of the saying, "All is fair in love and war". This time the war is in the business arena, the battlefield the office, and the order of the day is take no prisoners. In a style that faintly recalls the conflict in a far fluffier movie, Working Girl, a demanding ( Read more... )

Saturday was Day 16! Only one movie for me. I had work and then was completely exhausted and needed SLEEP! ;)

Boy - The trailer for this film would lead you to believe that it is silly and playful, with flights of fantasy and foolishness. And while it does embody these aspects, it's also a much more serious and at times sad film about what happens ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Day 15 at SIFF in my estimation (Day 16 in theirs - bah!) and was a mixed sort of day. Two meh films and two really fun and excellent films!

EDIT: Whoops! I totally forgot that I saw a press screening today - the closing night film! Review to come soon. Yeah, yeah, I know, I say that all the time! :P

Life in a Day -

Juan - A ( Read more... )