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Giallo (2009) - Dario...stop. Please, just stop. Enough already. This was truly awful, even worse than the Third Mother. And why does everyone have big noses? And what's Brody doing in this? FFS he was in the oscar winning, The Pianist - and goes from that to this...and in this he just shuffles about non-commitedly, not making any sense at all and rubbing his chin thoughtfully (more like trying to work out the f*cking script).

The Italian courts should place an injunction on Argento preventing him from going anywhere near filmmaking equipment. The man has gone from genius to z-movie hack.

Aaaaarggh! My eyes! I can't take anymore!!!!! Someone make Argento stop!!


The Firm (2009) - Nick Love remakes the Oldman film and puts his own spin on it. It's basically Bex's story, the leader of a violent London football 'firm' and how he is idolised by a younger member of the group. Things quickly turn sour as the violence escalates and things get out of hand. Nicely done with some good observations on life in the 80's. Worth a look - and thankfully here's a Love film that doesn't star Mockney Danny Dyer.


Sherlock Holmes (2009) - Robert Downey Jr is Holmes and Jude Law is Watson in Guy Ritchie's lavish re-imagining of the Holmes character. Holmes and Watson are on the trail of a group of occultists who have evil plans afoot. Obviously, they save the day and all is not lost.

As extravagant as this was, I felt it lacked...something. There was no real depth to the characters and the script spent too much time on the sub-plot of Watson's romance with Mary (that Holmes is trying to ruin). It just felt awkward and Downey Jr was too obviously trying to mimic Basil Rathbone in some of his mannerisms. Still, not unenjoyable, I just felt it could have been better. At least it shows that Ritchie is capable of making films outside the cockney gangster genre.