Paul is the new movie from comedy supremos Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. It’s directed by Greg Mottola, the bloke who shot Superbad, and is currently filming in the Nevada desert. You find out all about via the blog here or watch the video below. Looking forward to this one.
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Goodbye Lenin
Sat down this evening to watch a film I had hoped to catch in the cinema but didn’t. Goodbye Lenin tells the story of Alex, a young man growing up in East Berlin whose mother falls in a coma after a heart attack. She wakes a number of months later but East Germany she knows has disappeared with the fall of the Berlin wall. Alex needs to keep the awful truth from her as any shock could give her another heart attack. The film strikes a great tone through moments of genuine comedy, the family dynamic and what we perceive others to be able to handle. I’d recommend catching it on DVD if you get the chance.
Now this, looks damn interesting. Paul Giamatti as Paul Giamatti who gets his soul extracted cos it’s weighing him down. Bear with me and watch this:
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Dear Zachary
I’m wiping tears from my eyes as I write this. Last month, Green of Eye, wrote an amazing post on Culch.ie about a documentary film she watched called ‘Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father‘. I bookmarked the entry and made a point of contacting the film’s director Kurt Kuenne to see if it was available in Ireland. Having received an email back from him within a few days, I learned of the fact that while it is available via Amazon.com it wasn’t in the shops here as yet. As I have a multi-region player I picked it up and it arrived a couple of weeks ago.
Andrew Bagby (28) was discovered with fatal gunshot wounds in a parking lot in western Pennsylvania in 2001. The prime suspect, his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, fled the United States to St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. It was here, shortly after the incident, that she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew’s child. She named the little boy Zachary.
Kurt Kuenne, one of Andrew’s best friends sets out to make a film chronicalling his life so that his baby boy would some day know how much his father was loved and respected. I’ve never been floored by a documentary as much as I have by this film. I’d implore you to seek it out as it illustrates the immense good and love in people whilst contrasting with the narcissism and evil in others. Stunning.