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Latest diary entries by filmfan tagged with "ratatouille"
By filmfan
on Mon, 25th Feb 2008 at 21:52
I saw The Bank Job and Be Kind Rewind. Here's what I thought. Oh and the Oscar results are in. The Bank Job - Jason Statham and friends rob a bank and find themselves the targets of a conspiracy when they find that they've stolen some incrimating photos. Everyone's out to get them before the photos go public. This is a pretty entertaining, but ultimately forgettable, heist movie. Its funny and violent where it needs to be and the acting's all fine. A fair way to spend an evening if there's no footy on. Be Kind Rewind - Jack Black and Mos Def recreate some classic films when the stock of their video store is wiped. This is funny and feel good. Director Michel Gondry is the guy behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, another great film. Be Kind Rewind is about loving movies and hating being told to hate piracy. For official sites and what's next on my list, check my last blog. The Oscars happened yesterday, despite all that writers' strike stuff, which seems sorted now anyway. For the full list of winners click here. As you might have guessed I'm happy that Juno got an Oscar for Diablo Cody's script - hard to believe its her first. Watch out for more great stuff from her. Check my last blog for links. I'm happy that the Coen brothers did so well with No Country For Old Men and well done to Javier Bardem for winning best supporting actor - that was a really creepy character. Good to see Ratatouille and Sweeney Todd pick up an award each too.
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By filmfan
on Thu, 6th Dec 2007 at 14:08
Unedited versions as sent to pugwashnews, one made it, the other didn't. Ratatouille Make dinner plans, you’ll want a feast after this foodie-film. Like Disney/Pixar’s recent offerings, this Paris-set tale of Remy, a rat with Gordon Ramsay’s skills and the looks of a young Roland Rat opens with a cracking short. An appetiser-with-aliens it perfectly introduces the gentle humour and visual style of director and writer Brad Bird. He directed and wrote ‘The Incredibles’ and ‘The Iron Giant’, worked on almost 200 episodes of The Simpsons and directed the music video ‘Do the Bartman’. With that CV, Bird faced an audience hungry for more. Thankfully, Ratatouille (pronounced, the Remy-guided trailer tells us ‘Rat-a-2-e’), doesn’t leave a bad taste in the mouth. Instead, as Remy follows his culinary ambition by helping a lowly kitchen worker become a chef, the recipe is sweet, the journey smooth and the characters exquisitely moulded. With a smorgasbord of voice talent, not least Peter O’Toole as a ghoulish food critic and Bird himself as his butler, Ratatouille c’est magnifique!
Kate Nash – Wedgewood RoomsLeft me very, merry happy. On Sunday, the iconic venue on Southsea’s Albert Road (which recently celebrated a fun day), played host to the chart-topping pop starlet. With the entry queue snaking past The Edge of The Wedge and round the corner, the small, standing-room only venue was soon packed. The support, Talk Taxis (a band so now they’ll probably be cutting edge for years) and Peggy Sue and The Pirates (friends of Kate Nash and with the same influences but different style) are excellent, but it’s the lyrical pop pixie we came to see. Arriving to Play (probably the best album intro ever) and singing her way through Birds, Merry Happy, Shit Song and all her other hits, Kate Nash bobs joyfully at her piano or strums elegantly on her guitar. The combination o... About 108 more words in this entry about me"Web Junky, Media-Monkey and Telly Addict"
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