November 20th, 2009 01:16pm

Absent lovers makes THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON slow. Actors make PRECIOUS as precious as an Oscar.

by Cinema.Toast

When Bella and Jacob finally get back together in THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON, you realize that this is the spark that was missing for over an hour and the sudden appearance of characters played by Dakota Fanning and Michael Sheen just make you wonder why the middle part wasn’t just filmed in fast-forward mode.
November 13th, 2009 04:22pm

AN EDUCATION makes Carey Mulligan a star, PIRATE RADIO filled with 60 sixties songs

by Cinema.Toast

Newcomer Carey Mulligan gets it just right in AN EDUCATION as she plays an intelligent young woman who must chose between the safe and sane road suggested by school counselors and parents or the seductive lure of jet-setting, do-nothings who fly to Paris for dinner and drinks. Actually, I’ve said too much. This coming of age film, and Mullligan’s performance, should be experienced rather than described.
November 6th, 2009 02:08pm

THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS were real “psychic warriors,” THE FOURTH KIND is a marketing hoax

by Cinema.Toast

THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS is based on reality—there really were men in the US military convinced they could dissolve storm clouds or walk through walls if they could just run fast enough.