FAQ About Time Travel

Director: Gareth Carrivick

Cast: Chris O’Dowd, Anna Faris, Marc Wooton

Year: 2009

Genre: Comedy

Rating:

Cinema-Reader – 7.2

IMDB – 7.2

FilmAffinity – 6.6

Cinema-Reader Synopsis:

Whilst drinking in their habitual pub, a group of 3 outcasts made up of a guy obsessed with time travelling (Chris O’Dowd), a frustrated scripwriter full of lousy ideas within his brain and a guy which main concern is to drink as much pints as possible; find a time hole in the toilet that will make them leap back and forward in time with no control.

Helped by a hottie time-leaks official came straight from future (Anna Faris), they will try to come back to their regular lives and time frame avoiding futuristic psycho killers, uncertain future situations and encounters with their past and future selves.

Cinema-Reader Review:

FAQ... is a smart comedy about time travel based on a chain of actions that will lead the starring (among which is the funny Irishman Chris O’Dowd known for his work on "IT Crowd" or "The boat that rocked" and the "Scary Movie" actress Anna Faris) to tricky situations with continuous leaps in time.
Nowadays comedies just look for a loud laugh among the audience; however this comedy tries to get (and gets indeed) a smile through the entire movie, with hilarious situations but with no silly humour (as the crap saw on such lousy films as "Scary Movie", "Spanish Movie" or all those "Bullshit Movies"...). Something to be happy of.

Low budgeted movie that works around a superb idea, with ups and downs but worth to be seen if what you are looking for is a different and fresh comedy in the same line of the unclassified and awesomely hilarious "Shaun of the Dead".

Clash of the Titans

Director: Louis Leterrier

Cast: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton

Year: 2010

Genre: Action

Rating:

Cinema-Reader – 5.2

IMDB – 6.7

FilmAffinity – 5.3

Cinema-Reader Synopsis:

Gods oversee human from the Olympus with a sense of disappointment. What Zeus (Liam Neeson) figured out when creating human kind is vanishing due to a growing feeling among mortals that Gods forsaken them long time ago.

This defying behaviour will cause Gods rage encouraged by Zeus’ brother’s tricks, Hades (Ralph Fiennes), who’s hiding second plans for human race and for his own brother Zeus.

However Perseus (Sam Worthington), a demi-god son of Zeus raised as a fisherman, will start a journey going all the way to hell in order to stop the fury unleashed by Titans over the city of Argos.

Cinema-Reader Review:

I define myself as an action kind of guy when talking about cinema. I do enjoy as a kid all actions movies with a sustainable plot. Coz I reckon a decent story is as important as frenetic and jaw dropping action scenes.
Something this movie lacks at all.

For all those who saw in a first place back in the 80’s the original Clash of the Titans, here is my piece of advice; try to erase out of your mind the idea of a remake which at least equal what we saw (at least I did) in that classy movie. Much more X effects but with an absolute gap in the plot.
A waste of a great story based in the always handy Greek mythology which has already risen in boxes worldwide same money that spent when filmed.

That means a fuck to me.

I felt like throwing away an entire evening (and 22 € of my pocket) on a movie with a disjointed script. Even more in a pointless 3D... (I should have followed the advice I read on TOTAL FILM Magazine that highlighted the 3D version was made against the watch with no a great outcome).

By the way, any of ye guys agree with me about how Sam Worthington plays in exactly the same way as in Terminator 4: Salvation?
Shame on my, I had forgotten robots in the far future acts in the same way like a demi-god in the ancient Greek civilization... He even keeps the same hair cut, quite suitable for that period of time...

She's out of my league

Director: Jim Field Smith

Cast: Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, T.J. Miller

Year: 2010

Genre: Comedy

Rating:

Cinema-Reader – 6.7
IMDB – 6.7
FilmAffinity – 6.0

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Cinema-Reader Synopsis:

Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is what commonly is known as a looser.
He still trapped in a job as a custom officer whilst his dream of being pilot start to vanish. And what’s more, his life time girlfriend just dumped him.

However, everything changes when in a boredom day in his workplace knows by change Molly (Alice Eve), a smoking hot Blondie that, in order to change her own life punished by loads of one night stands and awesomely gorgeous and random guys, decides to give a change to that skinny guy who seems of that kind which never let her down.

Ever since that encounter, Kirk freaks out with the possibility of having a steady relationship with his dreamt girl even if everybody wouldn’t bet on it.

Cinema-Reader Review:

First appearance of Jay Baruchel, a stand up comedian well-known among this circle that so far had had small roles in such movies as Tropic Thunder or Dollar Million Baby. A next door guy, really funny that from now on I dare to foresee will be in the spotlight due to his hilarious skills to make us laugh.

Beside Baruchel, the story ain’t a big deal. The story describes how a regular guy (looser in this case) that falls for an unreachable as well as insultingly beautiful girl, struggles against all handicaps to success with this odd relationship. Obviously this couple will end up working out living happily ever after.

However, countless funny and embarrassing situations take place in half way, making this movie being a good entertain that causes more than a laugh.