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Only You, a review by KinkyCyborg

Only You



Title:Only You
Year: 1994
Director: Norman Jewison
Rating: PG
Length: 108 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1, Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, French: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Marisa Tomei
Robert Downey, Jr.
Bonnie Hunt
Joaquim de Almeida
Fisher Stevens

Plot:
A love story written in the stars.

An irresistibly romantic comedy from the director of Moonstruck, Only You stars Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. as lovers destined to meet and fall in love. Tomei stars as Faith Corvatch, who, at age 11, asks her Ouija board the name of the man she would marry. As a teen, she asks a carnival gypsy, and receives the same answer: Damon Bradley. But when Damon Bradley never shows, the grown Faith decides to marry an earniest podiatrist. Just 10 days before the wedding, Faith's fiance receives a message from a high school alum- Damon Bradley. On a wing and a prayer, Faith flies to Italy with her best friend in search of Damon.

Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Closed Captioned


Silly romantic comedy with Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr.

The highlights... Marisa Tomei is deliciously gorgeous in this early role of hers, more so than in any other movie I have seen her in. Bonnie Hunt plays her best friend and I've always liked her and her ability to deliver witty quips and biting retorts. The backdrops, Rome, Venice and the beautiful rolling countrysides of Italy are amazing and I'd love to visit there some day.

The lows... Marisa Tomei's silly performance counters her beauty as she is flippant, ditzy and ultimately annoying. Fisher Stevens inclusion in any film automatically tarnishes it to a a certain degree and lastly, while I don't mind romantic comedies this one was just way too sappy for me.

Won't be revisiting this one again any time soon...

KC


Rating:

(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2011 on April 3rd, 2011)

Touchez pas au grisbi, a review by Antares

Touchez pas au grisbi





Year: 1954
Film Studio: Les Films Corona, StudioCanal Image, Antares Films
Genre: Suspense/Thriller, Drama
Length: 96 Min.

Director
Jacques Becker (1906)

Writing
Albert Simonin (1905)...Novel
Jacques Becker (1906)...Adaptation
Albert Simonin (1905)...Adaptation
Maurice Griffe...Adaptation
Albert Simonin (1905)...Dialogue

Producer
Robert Dorfmann (1912)

Cinematographer
Pierre Montazel (1911)

Music
Jean Wiener (1896)...Composer

StarsReview
       By 1954, the gangster film in Hollywood was as dead as a doornail. It had prospered in the decade prior to World War II, but post-war, had evolved into a more stylized form of crime drama coined by the French, Film Noir. In Noir, the gangster is not undone by the astute and relentless crime solving techniques of the police, but by his own weakness of character. The underworld of organized crime is a murky universe with a diverse array of flawed individuals, who must fight constantly to retain their status amongst their brotherhood of brigands. Just as in real life, with time, comes wisdom and respect. A successful criminal who has survived into their fifties, is revered by his friends and envied by his enemies. But always, there are young and ambitious newcomers who are impatient with the status quo, and who will upset the apple cart by using force to unseat what they perceive as an easy, aging target.

       In Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot), Jean Gabin plays Max, a longtime mover and shaker in the Parisian underworld. Max is respected throughout the underworld as a man of principle. A brethren soul who honors his partners and friends with undying loyalty. When tensions arise between rivaling factions, Max is always brought in to mediate the problem and keep the streets free from bloodshed. But Max has tired of the burdens that are associated with being a wizened aristocrat of the underworld, and as we learn in the beginning of the film, eight gold bars have been stolen from a shipment at Orly airport. Of course, Max is behind the theft, and he sees this as his final job, his last still holds true. Max will have to wait if he wants to retire, maybe, just maybe, after the next .

       Jean Gabin and Lino Ventura give outstanding performances as the protagonist and antagonist respectively. For Gabin, it would be his greatest acting performance since his heyday in the thirties. The suave nuances he brings to his character reminded me of Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief or North by NorthwestReview Criterion
5 Stars - The pinnacle of film perfection and excellence.


(From Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) on November 12th, 2010)

The IT Crowd: Version 3.0 - (mini) marathon, a review by Tom

01. From Hell (2008-11-21)
Writer: Graham Linehan (Writer)
Director: Graham Linehan
Cast: Chris O'Dowd (Roy), Richard Ayoade (Moss), Katherine Parkinson (Jen), Matt Berry (Douglas), Chris Morris (Denholm), Tom Binns (Nolan), Togo Igawa (Mr Yamamoto), Jonathan Ryland (Gary)

Great start to a new series. Everyone had a fun storyline.

Rating:

(From The IT Crowd: Version 3.0 - (mini) marathon on July 31st, 2009)