The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
✪✪✪ or in my language 3/5 Twees
(opens 26th Feb) – Screens Everywhere
My thoughts

Where it suddenly collapses is in the
middle third with Richard Gere arriving as the suspected hotel inspector. He’s
just too Richard Gere, and they’ve given him this horrible monologue that’s
meant to be romantic, and it just comes off dull. After that I found his
dullness seeped into the rest of the plot, only lifted by some glorious clothes
and wonderful, energetic dancing.
However, I temper my opinion in that, as I
said, I didn’t love the first, and I’m not a twee lover as opposed to a tea
lover (which I am of the latter). So, if you loved the first and were one those
running around telling everyone, go see it. If you weren’t a fan, this one
won’t do anything to change your mind. I imagine if this one does well, then
there will be 3rd Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and, heaven forbid, we
may end up with a chain of them. It seems the action heroes have The
Expendables to which to retire, and the romance leads have the Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel.
Film Blurb
THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL is
the expansionist dream of Sonny (Dev Patel), and it's making more claims on his
time than he has available, considering his imminent marriage to the love of
his life, Sunaina (Tina Desai). Sonny has his eye on a promising property now
that his first venture, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and
Beautiful, has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament
for fresh arrivals Guy (Richard Gere) and Lavinia (Tamsin Greig). Evelyn and
Douglas (Judi Dench and Bill Nighy) have now joined the Jaipur workforce, and
are wondering where their regular dates for Chilla pancakes will lead, while
Norman and Carol (Ronald Pickup and Diana Hardcastle) are negotiating the
tricky waters of an exclusive relationship, as Madge (Celia Imrie) juggles two
eligible and very wealthy suitors. Perhaps the only one who may know the
answers is newly installed co-manager of the hotel, Muriel (Maggie Smith), the
keeper of everyone's secrets. As the demands of a traditional Indian wedding
threaten to engulf them all, an unexpected way forward presents itself. (c) Fox
Searchlight
Project Almanac ✪✪✪ (opening
26th Feb) Screens Everywhere
My Thoughts

The beginning is very slow. My
twelve-year-old leaned over a good 45 minutes into the movie and said, “When is
it starting?” Finally, when they do travel back in time, they don’t do much,
except go back again and again to help one of teenagers pass an oral test, and
the requisite win the Lottery. Although, there was a glaring plothole with the
lottery, when they mistakenly miswrite one of the numbers and only get 5 out of
6 correct and win $1.8 instead of $43 million, or some huge figure. So, they
all decide they can’t be bothered going back again to get the $43 million. Say
what!!! After they’ve gone back so many times just to pass a test or secure
revenge on a bully. It’s stuffed full of teen angst and romance, and that will
certainly limit the audience.
If you’ve seen The Butterfly Effect, then
you’ve seen this film, and you’ve seen a better version.
Film Blurb
A brilliant high school student and his
friends uncover blueprints for a mysterious device with limitless potential,
inadvertently putting lives in danger. (C) Paramount
Girlhood ✪✪✪ (opening 2nd March at Lotterwest Film Festival only)
My Thoughts
This is a Lotterywest Film Festival movie,
and it’s foreign language, set in France. Not to be confused with the brilliant
Boyhood, it’s about a teenage girl, ,
and her metamorphous from a quite,
retiring girl into a tough, gang member. Then it becomes a story of girls
becoming women and finding themselves and their position with the various gangs
within their school and neighborhood. Then it becomes another film entirely
with the main character making some dark choices and becoming involved in the
drug business. There’s a lot to enjoy in this film, although there’s also a few
dead spots. It’s French, and if you enjoy French films then this is a solid and
interesting one. They have a feel and style all to their own. My main take from it was that in having two
boys I’m quite relieved. Not that I haven anything against daughters, it’s just
this film certainly depicts the cattiness and bullying that can occur in these
girl groups that form in high school.
Film Blurb
A brilliant high school student and his
friends uncover blueprints for a mysterious device with limitless potential,
inadvertently putting lives in danger. (C) Paramount
FILM NEWS
SPECIAL EVENT CINEMA
The Merry Widow - Opera at the Met
Sat 14th March - Sun 15
Mar at Luna Leederville & Luna SX
My Thoughts
I haven’t seen many operas except for the
school productions like the Mikado. I think these films are a great opportunity
to expose yourself to culture. We don’t get many operas through Perth. If you
are an opera fan, why not check it out.
Film Blurb
The great Renée Fleming stars as the
beguiling femme fatale who captivates all Paris in Lehár’s enchanting operetta,
seen in a new staging by Broadway virtuoso director and choreographer Susan
Stroman (The Producers, Oklahoma!). Stroman and her design team of Julian
Crouch (Satyagraha, The Enchanted Island) and costume designer William Ivey
Long (Cinderella, Grey Gardens) have created an art-nouveau setting that
climaxes with singing and dancing grisettes at the legendary Maxim’s. Nathan
Gunn co-stars as Danilo and Kelli O’Hara is Valencienne. Andrew Davis conducts
THAT SUGAR FILM 5/5 stars (40 stars out of 5 number of teaspoons the
average Australian consumes a day of hidden sugar)
Showing at
Luna Leederville & Luna SX & Event Cinemas

Q&A Screening Event
on Monday 23 March at Luna on SX at 5.30pm
& 6.15pm (6.15pm SOLD OUT) and Tuesday 24 March at 6.45pm at Luna
Leederville (due to popular demand!) with Australian actor, TV star Damon
Gameau (Underbelly, Balibo), who presents and talks about his revealing
debut documentary feature that looks at the effects of sugar on our
health following the evening session. Joining Damon will be a health
professional and health food advocate.
Film Blurb
THAT SUGAR FILM is one man’s journey
to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique
experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body,
consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’. Through this
entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that
plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves. THAT
SUGAR FILM will forever change the way you think about ‘healthy’ food.
OUTDOOR CINEMA
CURRENTLY
SHOWING:
·
Salt
of the Earth 16th Feb to 1st
March Documentary:
·
’71 (UK/Irish) 4 ½ / 5
stars Reviewed last week 23rd
Feb to 1st March Somerville – 3rd March to 8th
March
·
GIRLHOOD 2nd to 8th March at
Somerville Reviewed above
LUNA Outdoor Cinema Leederville
For Tickets and Times: CLICK HERE
· A MOST VIOLENT YEAR - Thriller starring Jessica Chastain
CAMELOT Outdoor Cinema
For Tickets and Times: CLICK HERE
·
FlickerFest – Best of Australian Shorts
running
5/3 to 8/3
·
Birdman – Check out what
all the Oscar awards are about
·
Theory of Everything
·
Pride – I loved this
small British film. Well worth catching. A real feel good film.
McDonalds Community Cinema
CINEMAS are at Burswood, Mandurah, Murdoch, Bassendean and Curtin
Highlights showing at Burswood:
·
AMERICAN SNIPER Wednesday 4/3/15
·
Screening
on behalf of the RSL of WA as part of the 100th Commemoration of ANZAC.
·
Penguins
of Madagascar Saturday 28/2
·
Paper
Planes Sunday 1/3
JUPITER
ASCENDING – I caught this at a general session. It’s not as bad as the
critics would have you believe. It’s just not as good as expected.
SELMA – Martin Luther King
Jnr bio-pic
Paper Planes - This has been a huge
box-office success and rightly so.
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