nowanunome Reviews

The Woman in Black (1989 TV Movie)

A Classic Cult Movie????? WHAT!!!!!

[12 February 2012]

OK, so there is a new version in Cinemas right now. Its what made me go find this the original version of the book brought to the big screen. Please don't think me a spoil sport awarding the score I have as I do own a formidable library of what I hope are some of the best films made! I try daily to find and see great movies. OK...the movie...It is filmed in what looks like video for a start. The style also lends somehow to the period. It looks OLD! It starts well enough with great sets, clothes and locations. Everyone so far looks and sounds the part. Its eerie. Its misty. It has the right weird locals (see American Werewolf in London) It builds nicely. There is some suspense there. There is no sign of it being bad for quite a while....there is a graveyard sequence that only helps stoke the imagination into thinking this could be a gem. I mean it is being re made by a big Hollywood studio an a massive budget. It moves to a house on an island where the recently deceased lady who's accounts the solicitor has to root through and make sense of lived. This is when it all becomes quite apparent that the effects and acting department...I mean producing and Direction is blatantly not on the ball. The small budget spent on actors shows through. It goes from bad to worse. When does this happen? Well in what I have read to be the most chilling scene in the movie. THE ONLY chilling (can you call it chilling after seeing it) scene in the movie. The make up is so awful!! The acting gets worse. The story more unbelievable. Maybe it was heavily edited or just badly. It starts to make little sense. The ending which I won't spoil is...well...it left me open mouthed as to why I had bothered to watch a movie that I should have first looked up properly in critics reviews. As I have seen no really great critics had said anything on it! OK it got a 7.4! That is why I felt obliged to warn some other poor viewer not to waste time seeing this! The new 2012 movie looks great, it also seems to be truer to the original book. Watch this at your peril!!!

Unthinkable (2010)

One Word

[22 June 2010]

Shoddy! I am seeing Samuel L Jackson in frequently more lower budget movies. I had faith in Carrie-Anne Moss as she was truly brilliant in the Matrix. In this shes OK. Now the real surprise is how, along with Michael Sheen they all thought this was quality product! The script smells of cliché and there is no budget. But hey budget means nothing of all the rest works. It does not here. Jackson does what EJackson does most of the time. I think he has probably 5 characters in him. Which is a whole lot more than most. Sheen has more than proved himself also in all he has done. Character actor. Hey I hate to be the one to spoil the party. I sat through it coz of the actors. I would not recommend it. If your into the kinda movie that says 'save America' etc etc......basically this is Team America but played by real peeps. Be prepared for boredom an gasps of 'how did they agree to this'.

Face (I) (1997)

One of the all time British greats!

[5 March 2008]

This is one of the best British Gangster movies of all time! Sadly overlooked. Robert Carlyle is brilliant and authentic in his delivery as a gang leader with a conscience. Like 'Clockers' this is a movie that makes you think. This is not just a gangster/robbery movie. It looks into the lives of each character and their interaction with society and each other. It looks at trust and conscience. The dialog is the best I have heard in this sort of movie and very real. Brilliant performances from all! Great story and ending. Why this was not promoted properly at the time I don't know. Its better than the middle class made Lock Stock, and on a par with The Long Good Friday. Watch and enjoy.