Lope is a movie about Lope de Vega, an extremely prolific Spanish author and playwright in the time of the Spanish Armada. This was a fun movie that bends historical fact to create a good story.

7/10

Stephen Frears returns to the big screen with the adaptation of Tamara Drewe. This is a delightful comedy with a host of interesting characters.

7/10.

Vanishing on 7th Street is the latest horror movie by Brad Anderson. There were moments of truly creepy brilliance in this movie offset by lots of failed attempts to be creepy and uneven plotting. Brad Anderson made the darkness too concrete.

6/10

Submarine is brought to us by Richard Ayoade. This movie was described as a Wes Anderson movie set in Wales and that was what we got. Very good

8/10

The Illusionist is Sylvain Chomet's followup to his Triplets of Belleville. The story of a vaudevillian in a dying business this is a story of loneliness and failure. This depressing content is handled with some lightness and the movie itself is beautifully constructed and painted.

8/10

Bunraku is oh so flawed. I think Guy Moshe was trying to ape Robert Rodriguez's Sin City and it didn't work. The style was tedious, the plot was uneven, the editing was weak. Ron Perlman was Ron Perlman; he did the same sort of character he normally does. His character was similar to what he did in I Sell the Dead. Josh Hartnett did a credible job as the Drifter. Demi Moore, Woddy Harrelson and Gackt did credible jobs of their roles. K

The Trip is an improvised comedy starring Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan as themselves touring through fine restaurants in Northern England. It was brilliant. Bitterly sarcastic, these two share the interactions of two people who have been friends for a long time and take pleasure in making eachother laugh. It was a Brilliant movie.

8/10

Camp Armadillo is a base for military operations in Afghanistan. This documentary follows a squad of men through a 6 month deployment into a combat situation. Tearful farewells gives way to the dusty, tedious fear of existing in a guerrilla war 1000m from Taliban living among your neighbours. The highlight of the film was a firefight followed by the aftermath.

8/10

A Night for Dying Tigers is director Terry Miles' meditation on jaded excesses and troubled interactions of a quartet of siblings. The eldest is about to go off to jail which forms the pretext for an evening of eating, drinking, fucking, hate, and love. There are no innocents in this movie and all the performances are good. Most of the action takes place in the family home - soon to be sold off - which acts as a character in the show. The

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