10s Movie Review - Magic in the Moonlight

Director: Woody Allen
Genre: Comedy/ Drama/ Romance
Runtime: 97 minutes
Year: 2014
Starring: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, Simon McBurney, Hamish Linklater

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Description: A romantic comedy about an Englishman (Colin Firth) brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue.

Review: Woody Allen is most often either a hit or miss for me. “Magic in the Moonlight” falls somewhere in between.

This movie follows Stanley, a British illusionist, who is given the task to unmask the medium Sophie. Stanley himself is a master of deceit, since in his act he performs as an Asian man. He seems the perfect man to pierce through Sophie’s scheme. Sophie knows from the start Stanely is skeptic about her job, but he can also not resist her charm.  

Nothing really happens in this movie. It is for Emma Stone and Colin Firth that it works. Although they don’t always seem to be believable as love interests. It’s a tale of opposites attract that has been done some many times and so much better.

“Magic in the Moonlight” is not a movie I would remember for long.

Rating: 2,5/ 5

Movie Trailer Sunday (140)

Here are this weeks trailers.

Foxcatcher

Description: We follow Olympic Wrestling Champion brothers Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) and their relationship with the eccentric John du Pont (Steve Carell), heir to the du Pont Chemical fortune that led to murder.

Director: Bennett Miller

Starring: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave, Sienna Miller and Anthony Michael Hall

Trailer: Trailer "Foxcatcher"

Comment: I'm impressed with Steve Carell already!

Happy Christmas

Description: Jenny (Anna Kendrick) is an irresponsible 20-something who comes to Chicago to live with her older brother Jeff (Joe Swanberg), a young filmmaker living a happy existence with his novelist wife Kelly (Melanie Lynskey) and their two-year-old son. Jenny's arrival shakes up their quiet domesticity as she and her friend Carson (Lena Dunham) instigate an evolution in Kelly's life and career. Meanwhile, Jenny strikes up a rocky relationship with the family's baby sitter-cum-pot dealer (Mark Webber).

Director: Joe Swanberg

Starring: Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber, Lena Dunham, Joe Swanberg

Trailer: Trailer "Happy Christmas"

Comment: I love these kind of movies and I love Anna Kendrick.

 

Life of Crime

Description: Ordell Robbie (Yasiin Bey) and Louis Gara (John Hawkes) have lots in common - time in the same slammer, convictions for grand theft auto, and a plan for a big score. They're going to snatch the wife (Jennifer Aniston) of a Detroit developer (Tim Robbins) and collect some easy ransom money. They don't figure on a bum of a husband who has a secret mistress (Isla Fisher) and no desire to get his wife back. Or on his crazy, beautiful broad of a housewife who's going to join Ordell and Louis in the slickest, saviest crime of all.

Director: Dan Schechter

Starring: Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey, Isla Fisher, Will Forte and Tim Robbins.

Trailer: Trailer "Life of Crime"

Comment: I love Jen, this movie looks interesting.

Magic in the Moonlight

Description: An Englishman (Colin Firth) is brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue.

Director: Woody Allen

Starring: COlin Firth, Emma Stone, Eileen Atkins, Marcia Gay Harden, Hamish Linklater, Jacki Weaver

Trailer: Trailer "Magic in the Moonlight"

Comment: Emma Stone and Colin Firth look surprisingly good together! And I like the poster

Clouds of Sils Maria

Description: At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant (Kristen Stewart) to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal (Chloë Grace Moretz) is to take on the role of Sigrid, and Maria finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an ambiguously charming woman who is, in essence, an unsettling reflection of herself.

Director: Olivier Assayas

Starring: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz

Trailer: Trailer "Clouds of Sils Maria"

Comment: I wanted to see more of Juliette Binoche after her small role in "Godzilla".