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Small Miracles (The Testimony of Taliesin Jones)

By CJ on March 4, 2008 6:39 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    • John-Paul Macleod ... Taliesin Jones
    Jonathan Pryce ... Tal's Dad
    Geraldine James ... Tal's Mum
    Matthew Rhys ... Jonathan
    Griff Rhys Jones  ... Caesar
    Ian Bannen ... Billy Evans
  • Director:
    • Martin Duffy
  • Genre:
    • Drama / Family 
  • Plot Summary
    • Also known as "Small Miracles", released by Questar, Inc in 2004. This quietly lovely film won Best...
  • Comment:
    • Again, Welsh accent.... It's a little hard for me to understand. I think the main stream is all right though, sometimes I can't catch small conversations.
    Anyway it starts with a very happy scene of a family taking a photo in their garden. They look so happy and satisfied. But a little later, perhaps the day after Tal's twelfth birthday, we realize his Mum's living somewhere else. It sounds like there are some good reasons why she has to live far away from her family, but actually she met someone and is going to marry him. I kind of understood that feeling.
    On the other hand, Tal experienced a miracle with his piano teacher Billy. So he believes in God and attends church, and also tries to heal someone with a miracle. There are a lot of small things that happen and finally he loses his faith because of Billy's death. At school a boy who bullied Tal all the time wanted him to heal his cut right middle finger with prayer. Of course he can't fix it,but the boy comes to trust Tal.
    As a story, I didn't get much satisfaction. I mean I wasn't satisfied with this story, this film got some prizes but I didn't really see why.   It was good but not that great.   I learned Tal's dad was in Very Annie Mary, he also played the Dad of the heroine. I'm sure he is one of the most famous actor in Wales.
     

Peaches

By CJ on February 10, 2008 5:44 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Matthew Rhys ... Frank
    Kelly Reilly ... Cherry
    Justin Salinger ... Johnny
    Matthew Dunster ... Pete
    Sophie Okonedo ... Pippa
  • Director:
    Nick Grosso
  • Genre:
    Comedy
  • Plot Outline:
    Frank leaves college and faces a Summer of discontent.
  • Comment:
    Actually I didn't get nearly half of it because of their accent and slangs. They speak young men's words so mostly I couldn't guess. And their way of speaking is young's one, so it was very difficult to me.

    If they had an English subtitles, it helps me, I suppose.

    Story itself was OK though, I'm not satisfied with.

The Contender

By CJ on January 6, 2008 7:20 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Gary Oldman ... Rep. Sheldon Runyon
    Joan Allen ... Sen. Laine Hanson
    Jeff Bridges ... President Jackson Evans
    Christian Slater ... Rep. Reginald Webster
    Sam Elliott ... Kermit Newman
    William Petersen ... Gov. Jack Hathaway
    Saul Rubinek ... Jerry Tolliver
    Philip Baker Hall ... Oscar Billings
    Mike Binder ... Lewis Hollis
    Robin Thomas ... William Hanson
    Mariel Hemingway ... Cynthia Charlton Lee
    Kathryn Morris ... Special Agent Paige Willomina
    Kristen Shaw ... Fiona Hathaway
  • Director:
    Rod Lurie
  • Genre:
    Drama / Thriller
  • Plot Outline:
    Sexy secrets from a womans past come to light as she runs for Vice President.
  • Comment:
    It was interesting though, I felt dissatisfaction somehow. A lot of actors were involved in this film, but I don't think this film was able to use all good points of the people who were appeared in.

Nurse Betty

By CJ on November 21, 2007 6:47 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Morgan Freeman ... Charlie
    Renée Zellweger ... Betty Sizemore
    Chris Rock ... Wesley
    Greg Kinnear ... Dr. David Ravell / George McCord
    Aaron Eckhart ... Del Sizemore
    Tia Texada ... Rosa Hernandez
    Crispin Glover ... Roy Ostery
    Pruitt Taylor Vince ... Sheriff Eldon Ballard
    Allison Janney ... Lyla Branch
  • Director:
    Neil LaBute
  • Genre:
    Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller
  • Plot Outline:
    Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.
  • Comment:
    It's very comedy.   It says crime or thriller or romance though, I think just a comedy.

Chocolat

By CJ on May 12, 2007 6:26 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Juliette Binoche ... Vianne Rocher
    Alfred Molina ... Comte Paul de Reynaud
    Carrie-Anne Moss ... Caroline Clairmont
    Judi Dench ... Armande Voizin
    Antonio Gil-Martinez ... Jean-Marc Drou
    Hélène Cardona ... Francoise Drou
    Johnny Depp ... Roux
  • Director:
    Lasse Hallström
  • Genre:
    Comedy / Drama / Romance
  • Tagline
    One Taste Is All It Takes
  • Plot Outline
    A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
  • Comment
    Actually I'm a little confused about story.   I'll watch this again later.

Gun Shy

By CJ on May 9, 2007 4:30 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Liam Neeson ... Charles 'Charlie' Mayeaux
    Oliver Platt ... Fulvio Nesstra
    José Zúñiga ... Fidel Vaillar
    Michael DeLorenzo ... Estuvio Clavo
    Andrew Lauer ... Jason Cane (as Andy Lauer)
    Richard Schiff ... Elliott
    Paul Ben-Victor ... Howard
    Gregg Daniel ... Jonathan
    Ben Weber ... Mark
    Sandra Bullock ... Judy Tipp
    Mary McCormack ... Gloria Minetti Nesstra
    Michael Mantell ... Dr. Jeff Bleckner
  • Director:
    Eric Blakeney
  • Genre:
    Comedy / Crime / Romance
  • Tagline
    The Agency's best has a bad case of nerves.
  • Plot Outline
    An undercover DEA agent brings down the Mafia.
  • Comment
    It was fun!    Actually the beginning of this film, I thought it was a very serious gang film, but I found it's comedy soon.    These words are very match to this film "Refreshingly and delightfulness".    I love it.

Gangstar No.1

By CJ on January 22, 2007 5:21 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Malcolm McDowell .... Gangster 55
    David Thewlis .... Freddie Mays
    Paul Bettany .... Young Gangster
    Saffron Burrows .... Karen
    Kenneth Cranham .... Tommy (as Ken Cranham)
  • Director:
    Paul McGuigan
  • Genre:
    Crime / Drama / Thriller
  • Tagline
    It's not who you know, it's who you kill.
  • Plot Outline
    Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster.
  • Comment
    Because it is an English film, I watched this, but to tell the truth, I didn't get satisfaction.

Dancer in the Dark

By CJ on July 7, 2004 4:33 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Björk .... Selma Jezkova
    Catherine Deneuve .... Kathy
    David Morse .... Bill Houston
    Peter Stormare .... Jeff
    Joel Grey .... Oldrich Novy
  • Director:
    Lars von Trier
  • Genre:
    Musical / Drama
  • Tagline
    You don't need eyes to see.
  • Plot Outline
    An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.
  • Comment
    I didn't notice that it included a musical. Basically I'm not a big fun of musicals. But I've read some articles about this film and I found that it had something serious. I like heavy films. Anyway I think this film is good. I wasn't able to understand several scenes, so after watching film, I checked that scenes with English subtitles.
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