This was a nice long weekend that I'm sure is gonna remain unchallenged in my personal annals of laziness for years to come. It also was a weekend of independent cinema...
- Fright Night, ****It has been ages without a vampire movie! This is a reboot of a 80's film with the same name. A vampire comes to town and its teenage neighbor has to fight it to protect his loved ones. One star is pure euphoria for finding a horror movie that involves mythological creatures and not a human serial killer.
- Beginners, ****A man's life after the death of his father trying to construct a relationship— fighting his impulses to always run away—while dealing with the past; his father came out the day his mother died and his take on the family makes him evade relationships. This is a great and dramatic romantic comedy. The characters are so fresh and lovable. And the pace is just perfect to get soaked with the photography and the music.
- Our Idiot Brother, ****Ned is a naive, honest, kind and idealist man who always tries to empathize with the neighbor (I like the Spanish word "prójimo" more but there exist no English equivalent) but manages to always screw things up, or so it seems like. The topic, honesty and idealism, really got me. It is a fresh and elegant comedy of situations with a big human factor on it.
- Lucky, ***A newbie serial killer inherits a winning lottery ticket from one of his victims and his newly won money gets the attention of his childhood love. They get married and manage not to kill each other for a few weeks. It has been ages since I watched a dark comedy and this one really got me smiling, it lacks a great script but it is morbid and funny enough.
- Texas killing fields, ***There's a serial killer on the loose in rural Texas and two cops get emotionally involved in the case. This crime drama is loosely based on a real case. The story is so dark that the film doesn't manage to show it most of the time, nevertheless the photography is good and the takes of the Texas bayou managed to give me the chills.
- The Art of Getting by, ***A lonely teen has to find himself or flunk high-school. I liked the opening: "you are born alone, you will die alone" which is a chopped paraphrase of Orson Welles' "We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship we can create the illusion for the moment that we are not alone." The rest of the movie can be considered an audio-visual rendition of the rest of Mr. Welles' phrase.
- The Son of No One, *A young cop is haunted and hunted by ghosts of his past when he killed two men. The crimes of past and present intertwine in this not so much of a thriller with the background of 9-11. It's a good idea but I guess you need to have some context that I lack to really appreciate the movie.
- Lone Wolf and Cub 6, *This film should have a three or four stars rating but I watched the first five parts in the last two weekends and the memory of them are too fresh in my mind. The lone wolf finally faces his rival the Ura-Yagyu and nothing happens. C'mon! Give me an ending! I read somewhere that they are planning a new movie for the series with possible release date in 2014.
What is happening with the television series, I have never followed a season in the past and it is very annoying that during this month some of them have been going in and out...
- Last Man Standing S01-E14, ****Mike screws it big time with the neighbors thanks to his honesty, leading to troubles with his socially active wife. In the end, well, Mike's proven right.
- Castle S04-E12, ****The shadows behind power reappear to keep the mayor of New York from running for governor and keep Beckett out of her mothers case.
- Big Bang Theory, (no episode?)
- Psych, (not yet back?)
- Phineas and Ferb S01-E01-46, *****This is a simple, ten minute long cartoon, about two creative and industrious kids trying to spend summer at their best and their teenage sister trying to bust their plans. It's so innocent and creative and full of stories in just 10 minutes. I really liked it, it just made me laugh again and again.
- Game of Thrones S01-E01-10,
(mini-series) ****Winter is coming! A land where winter brings shadows and horrors is involved in incestuous political intrigue and in the verge of an all out war. Stage and wardrobe design are awesome, the characters have personality and deepness. I only didn't like the slow pace at the beginning but then the epic scale of the plot may need such a pace to develop.
- Falling Skies S01-E01-10, (mini-series) ****An alien vanguard has taken over the earth and a ten percent of the original population survives. Some of these survivors have organized in a resistance trying to figure a way to bring the fight back to the aliens. Great effects, great alien designs, good episode progression, crappy season finale.
- The Borgias S01-E01-09,
(mini-series) **Rodrigo Borgia has been elected pope Alexander VI and the Borgia family reaches the apex of their political station which is gonna last just a few decades. A free take on the historical Borgia family and its influence in the geopolitics of the Papal States and Mediterranean Europe during the Renaissance. Jeremy Irons plays the role of Rodrigo Borgia! Awesome wardrobe and locations. I was not so happy with the episode design, it didn't manage to get me interested long enough but good to remember the old history lessons from high-school.
Sadly, we didn't have any Audrey Hepburn due to the fact that my cousin got married and Lyx went to the wedding but we are already planning next weekend.
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