The Girlfriend Experience (***)
as an experience, Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience is ultimately as fake and superficial as would be a date with an expensive escort girl, and I suspect that its glossy contemporary exterior is going to date pretty fast - despite that, it has much to admire: she, Sasha Grey, is impressively laconic and charismatic throughout in the lead role and only falls somewhat short in the two scenes in the film where some real emotion needed to be displayed - and the vagueness in plot development and timelines giving it its distancing effect was refreshing; dare I say, however, that there just wasn't nearly enough sex?!
Obsessed (*)
poorly executed, laughably miscast, hopelessly generic garbage
Mum & Dad (*)
staggeringly amateurish even by the UK's anthologically woeful standards - my words cannot even begin to communicate how atrocious this drivel is (in truth, 'Lottery-funded' and 'BBC' should be warning enough)
Vinyan (*)
Vinyan is a directorial disaster terrifying only in how catastrophically it implodes before your very (tired) eyes - it's a mess that simply should never have been released in its current form
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (**)
while it has all the right heartwarming Spinal Tap moments and caricatures, at its heart Anvil is a fraudulent piece of work - a manipulative piece of PR for what is - and this is painstakingly left unsaid throughout its 90 minutes - an eternally dreadful heavy metal band
State Of Play (*)
a tedious and contrived political thriller
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I'm glad you mentioned the scene in Prague, Thomas - very true what you say; added to that is the smug note at the end of the film that they took the guy to court to win a 100 measly euros
I thought the girl who played the Eastern European "victim" in Mum and Dad was fantastic. Can't say the same about anyone else.
Is anyone else bored of the inevitability of Sasha Gray's ascent to hipster icon? So far all I have seen from her is that she can read into a microphone, stare blankly into space and take multiple insertions at once. Is that really a criteria for credibility and success?
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