My Week with Marilyn (2011)

Anna saw it at the cinema and said it was shite, which was a shame because I'd fancied seeing it because I wanted to see how Kenny tackled being Larry- to me it seemed the perfect casting.
My dad rented it and we watched it together. I thought it was brill! A great British ensemble piece and I actually managed to enjoy Judi Dench (there's a first!)
Also, just as I expected, Kenny nailed it. At some points I forgot he wasn't Olivier.

Anonymous (2011)

Good take on the 'who wrote Shakespeare's plays' theme. Nice acting and good story even if the script was a bit terrible, and I love it when acting families play older and younger versions of the same character. See photo of Joely Richardson playing young Queen Elizabeth and her mum Vanessa Redgrave playing older Bess. Thumbs up from British-actor-geek Amy!

Midnight in Paris (2011)

YES. A Woody Allen film made just for him like his good ones were, but without him, and with a charasmatic and handsome leading man, but still playing the Woody Allen part and it working.
Brillianly nerdy and indulgent and intellectual but at the same time not really, and above all affectionate, romantic and beautiful but not sexy and never trying to be. Just lovely.
What I loved most about Midnight in Paris was that the present day bits could have been any time really in the past forty years. There was nothing topically specific, rich republicans have always been like that and always will be. It wasn't ever about a time really, just a place. Predictable ending, but what a nice film. And the opening sequence of just views of Paris was great too.

My Dog Tulip (2010)

Rob and I watched this animated film online, I think it was on BBC4 a couple of months ago. The animation styles were wonderful, something about them reminded me of cartoons of my youth, ones like Padington Bear and King Rollo, very British and nostaglic. And after spending the day with Polly (Rob's dog) it was very fun and appropriate, though not so fun when we went downstairs to find Polly had ben sick on the carpet...

Travelling Light, National Theatre Live

I liked the girl, I liked the use of film and projection but I'm glad I didn't see this one for real and it was just a cinema trip because it was schmaltzy and sentimental and comparing it to She Stoops to Conquer which was put on at the same theatre on the same stage just a month or two later, well it was just forgetable.

The Artist (2012)

I was one of the people who saw the Artist without first seeing the spoiler-laden trailer.
I thought it was wonderful and a brilliant experience.
Everyone should see it at the cinema.

Sherlock Holmes 2 (2012)

SHITE.
I liked one scene, the scene three minutes before the end when Moriaty and Holmes chuck themselves over the Reichenbach Falls. And then what? They bring Holmes back instantly!? Didn't the original fans of the books have to wait ten years or something before he was brought back to life? I think that was a bit more dramatic.