Harley Davidson House Slippers

Whatever I start with the crowds

Year: 2011

Directed by: Giulio Manfredonia

Distribution: Distribution o1

has the merit of being an instant movie that "any" directed by Giulio Manfredonia and starring the South's political Cetto The matter, played by Antonio Albanian. The De Santis

political "threat" Calabria with the weapon of the law. Unheard of, especially if your name is La Cetto Whatever your curriculum and can boast a long period of hiding in South America. Just got back in his homeland, Cetto wants to bring his country on the right path of organized crime. To do so, De Santis will compete for the office of mayor ...

A little 'step back Antonio Albanian playing well that we had used sophisticated comedies (" Days and Clouds" and "Matters of the Heart"), and now they want return to a speck of his characters, Cetto, already appeared in comic strips television. And if one part is undeniable that it is useful, in a time like this for Italian politics, play down the hardships of a politician with only one thought in mind, the other Manfredonia's film fails to go beyond the mere sketch . In the end, then, has the feeling of having lost a good opportunity to say something new and clever about events that affect our (no longer) young Italy. Tap

put up yet another film that idles instead. And Antonio Albanian was reasonable to expect something more.

Diego Altobelli (01/2011)

Why Do I Keep Getting Zits In My Nose

Year: 2011
Director: Todd Phillips

Distribution: Warner Bros.

Back after Todd Phillips success of "The Hangover " wacky and zany comedy that two seasons ago had done (almost) a miracle.

Architect Peter Highman is located in Atlanta on business when his wife informed him by telephone from Los Angeles on Friday will give birth to their first child. Peter, happy, want to go back immediately, but the encounter with the bizarre series of misunderstandings Ethan and force him to get off the plane. To arrive in time for the birth, then, man is forced to be accompanied by Ethan own, rather eccentric character by the way ...

It 'always good Todd Phillips, even when as in this case is a nice person, but very incisive. The director relies on the experience of Robert Downey Jr. and all'istrionismo Zach Galifianakis, but the result is variable. The odd couple might not work as it should, and the film looks more like legendary echo coupled as Matthau-Lemmon, rather than the Martin-Lewis. We expected something more, well, especially after the aforementioned "The Hangover". There, there was perhaps a carelessness that is missing in this "I'm leaving with the crowds, partly because the genre buddy-buddy, in contrasting two opposing characters in order to extract a laugh, also assumes a certain underlying melancholy. And this, or you can handle - Landis and Hughes in this sense act as a benchmark - or you end up chapter in the comic vein.

Diego Altobelli (01/2011)

Chetna And Prithvi Blogs

Green Hornet

Year: 2011

Director: Michel Gondry

Distribution: Sony Pictures

director Michel Gondry returns to serve the comic genre. After wandering among the feelings of love ("If Spotless Mind"), dreams ("The Science of Sleep") and film ("Be Kind Rewind "), now goes to touch the strings of 'Entertainment taking the characters of a (not so) famous radio series before and after graphic novel, whose origins date back to 1936 no less than by the duo George W. Trendle and Fran Striker.

Britt Reid is the dissolute son of one of the largest publishers of Los Angeles. When his father died, Britt inherits the Daily Sentinel and makes friends with Kato, the gardener to do all of his old. Thanks to Kato, Britt finds himself caught in a night raid that led him to step into the shoes of Green Hornet, a masked vigilante. The advertising on their paper, however, pushes the problem of crime to be interested ...

E 'physiological. Comes to everyone on the day of truth. The moment when the genre exhausted all its cartridges - the inspiration, enthusiasm, trials - and become a cliché. That 's what perceived watching "Green Hornet", yet another unconventional fumettone, fracassone, full of jokes, chases, fights and references to other movies and comics. A film is not bad nor boring, where you really enjoy thanks to the good dose of humor that enriches the writing, but where there is the inevitable lack of real ideas.

In "Green Hornet" (a historical paradox that makes him a forefather of the superhero, before Batman and Superman for instance) there is really everything. They range from references to Sin City, Batman and Robin, the Pink Panther, and even in action films like "Lethal Weapon" or "Beverly Hills Cop." The protagonist is a strange mix between Peter Parker and Bruce Wayne, while co-star is called Kato, does martial arts and emulate Bruce Lee in the late sixties he had played (really) in the homonymous TV series. Citing short circuit in which the director Michel Gondry loves to splash around, but the final effect is, however, that the mere decal.

Gondry, on the other hand, takes its director and visionary, especially in a couple of sequences, demonstrates character and desire to renew. One must also mention the scene where the underworld is the word of the vigilante killing, or the moment when the protagonist relates everything that happened until birth Green Hornet.

short, "Green Hornet" is a film well directed, well played and fun, but sin in the absolute lack of novelty. Only for fans of the genre.

Diego Altobelli (01/2011)

West Coast Choppers Bicycle For Sale

As God commands

Year: 2008

Director: Gabriele Salvatores

Distribution: 01

Based on the novel by Niccolo 'Amman, winner Strega Prize, "As God commands," reports Gabriele Salvatores behind the camera after "Quo Vadis Baby?". The outcome of this new direction is fluctuating, due to a script perhaps too brief compared to the long novel that inspires.

Northern Italy. Rino Zena is a violent father, but very close to his son Christian who tries to grow despite the boy's shyness and social services that they would split. During a late night a friend of theirs, Quattroformaggi, rapes and murders a girl friend of the school of Christ. Rino racing to the rescue of the girl but it's late and took a moment of anger, he suffered a heart attack. It is a Christian, then, to fix the ugly face of blood ...

For the second time after "I'm Not Scared" Salvatores inspired by a novel in Amman, but this time with results not so happy. Salvatores's film, in fact, is too fragmented models of various parts together. A first in which we witness of Christian education, a second micro-universe in which we know the characters, and a third dedicated to the act of violence, until the final, taking away much of the intimate nature of the novel Twilight, in a blatant prejudice all happy end, not in tune with the tenor of the story. In short, the director, trying to catch the many aspects that made up the whole novel loses sight of the main themes of the plot, or the incomprehensibility of the act and the lack of total security man, placed himself in front of their own destiny on which does not have any control.

Good actors, however, Filippo Timi, very persuasive. Weaker interpretation of Elio Germano, a bit 'too smug.

Diego Altobelli (2008)