Mario Dhingsa's Blog - Posts Tagged "silverscreenblack"

(Supra) Mario's rating: 4.5/5 (unopened letters)

F(e)ar & Away: Astonishing and uplifting, Ronan's lonely Irish immigrant discovers the depths of affection and the weight of regret.

- Best quote🥇:
"One day the sun will come out. You might not even notice straightaway. And you'll catch yourself thinking about someone who has no connection with the past, someone who's only yours, and you'll realise that this is where your life is."

- Best travel quote 🚢:
"Homesickness is like most sicknesses. It'll make you feel wretched, and then it'll pass."

- Best depressing quote🙁:
"I can't buy you a future."

- Best Catholic quote⛪️:
"A giddy girl is every bit as evil as a slothful man."





#saoirseronan #nickhornby #johncrowley @BFI @20thCFlicks @empiremagazine @mariodhingsa

'The Babadook' (2014, AUS, 94 mins)

(Supra) Mario's rating: 5/5 (midnight knocks)

The Parent Trap: Suffocating single mum sinks below the surface as a demon mangles her days and erases her nights.

- Best quote quote🥇:
"I know you don't love me. The Babadook won't let you. But I love you, Mum. And I always will."

- Best advice from a child:
"Life is not always as it seems. It can be a wondrous thing. But it can also be very treacherous."

- Best promise ever:
"Don't worry Dad. I'll save Mum."





#babadook #australiancinema #horrormovies #jenniferkent @20thCFlicks @empiremagazine @mariodhingsa

(Mexico, 108 mins)

(Supra) Mario's rating: 4/5 (cantina calls)

The Noble Salary: Rich Dad saves brat children through two months of low-wage living. Guess there's still hope for Ivanka and Jared.

- Best quote🥇:
ANWAR: "So you plan to tell your children that you lied and put them to work because you thought they were a lazy bunch of morons?"
FATHER: "Not exactly with those words."

- Best Brad Pitt conversation💪:
DOCTOR: "Your father had a mild heart attack. But he's fine now. We dissolved the clot with nitroglycerine."
JAVI: "Isn't that what they use to make bombs? I saw it on 'Fight Club'."
CHARLIE: "We're asking about Dad and you ask about retards fighting each other?"
JAVI: "The film is way deeper than that!"
BÁRBARA: "And Brad Pitt looked amazing."
CHARLIE: "Of course he did! Personal trainers prepare them before shooting!"
BÁRBARA: "But he was cut in 'Thelma and Louise'!"
CHARLIE: "Then how did he get so strong for 'Troy'?!"





#nosotroslosnobles #mexico #comedy @20thCFlicks @empiremagazine @mariodhingsa

(UK, 91 mins)

(Supra) Mario's rating: 3.5/5 (loaded muskets)

The Stoat Locker: Four deserters flee the English Civil War, and find just as much violence and witchcraft in their wandering.

- Best quote🥇:
"Whilst we live in fear of hell, we have it."

- Best depressing quote 🙁:
"I never had so many friends as I do in this field."

- Best bookworm quote 📔:
"'Tis true, I have been mostly amongst books. I find pages easier to turn than people."

- Best hygiene quote ✋:
FRIEND: "You're a wise sort, you. You think about a thing before you touch it."
WHITEHEAD: "Is that not usual?"
FRIEND: "Not in Essex."

- Best survival advice 🌳:
CUTLER: "How did an idiot like you come to stay alive for so long?"
FRIEND: "My commanding officer says I have fresh air between my ears. And fresh air is good for a man's constitution, is it not?"

- Best 17th century lullaby 💤:
# I dreamed a dream but yesternight,
Thy father slain in foreign fight.
He, wounded, stood beside my bed.
His blood ran down upon thy head.
He spoke no word but looked on me.
Bent low and gave a kiss to thee.
Baloo, baloo, my darling boy,
Thou'rt' now alone thy mother's joy.





#moviereview #filmreviews #englishcivilwar #afieldinengland @benwheatley@mariodhingsa

(121 mins)

(Supra) Mario's rating: 3/5 (symptoms)

Sophie's (Worst) Choice: This is horror without hope, kinship without kindness, and solutions without resolution.

Superbly acted and sickeningly realised, watching this is like skydiving without a parachute, because all you'll do is plummet.

- Best quote🥇:
"You have beautiful hands. But so what if they're beautiful? They're lifeless. Sometimes Steven, you're just an incompetent man who goes on and on saying stupid things."

- Best spaghetti quote 🍝:
"Not long after my dad died, someone told me that I eat spaghetti the exact same way he did. At that time, I thought I was the only one who ate spaghetti that way. Me and my dad. Later, I found out that everyone eats spaghetti the exact same way. This made me very upset. Maybe even more upset than when they told me he was dead."

- Worst time-to-ask quote ⌚️:
"Our two children are dying in the other room, but yes, I can make you mashed potatoes tomorrow."

- Worst quote ever 😢:
MOTHER: "I believe the most logical thing, no matter how harsh this may sound, is to kill a child."





#nicolekidman #colinfarrell @20thCFlicks @empiremagazine @guardianfilm @totalfilm @mariodhingsa

New cover art released for my film review articles at #SilverScreenBlack.
The finest NZ chocolate to the first one who recognises the original film from the poster 🍫⏱️

(Denmark, 115 mins)

Mario's rating: 4/5 (leading questions)

Get Out (Of Our Community): Falsely-accused teacher sees the worst of human nature. Best Mads Mikkelsen acting. Worst Christmas movie choice.

Best quote 🥇:
"It's always assumed that children tell the truth. And unfortunately, very often they do."

Best hunting quote 🦌:
"Take good care of this rifle. Your grandfather has missed many deer to feed his family."

Best way-to-avoid-painful-decisions ☹️:
"The world is full of evil. But if we hold on to each other, it goes away."

Best inaccurate quote 📰:
"The whole town is listening."






#madsmikkelsen #thehunt #denmark @20thCFlicks @empiremagazine @guardianfilm @totalfilm

(100 mins)

Mario's rating: 4.5/5 (permissions granted)

Robo-'Memento': Tight, tense, tragic, and terrific, a quadriplegic is given the chance to stand, and with each step he avenges, whether he means to or not.

High tide: The electrifying, balletic 'robotic' fights; the film's futuristic world (from tablet coffee tables to bio-guns via pet clouds) on a $3m budget; the buddy-cop chemistry between the protagonist and STEM, his A.I. implant; and the film's ending...

Low tide: There's no sequel yet.

Best scene: Pick a fight, any fight.

Best quote 🥇:
STEM (on drinking alcohol): "It does not make sense that humans deliberately malfunction."
GREY: "Yeah, that's because your memories are filled with ones and zeros, pal, and our memories are filled with every mess up we've ever made."

- Best depressing quote 🙁:
GREY: "I'm not looking to restore my life. I'm looking for the off switch."

- Best ninja quote:
GREY (to his attacker): "See, you thought I was invalid, but you didn't know that I'm a freaking ninja."
STEM (to GREY): "While I am state of the art, I am not a ninja."





#20thCFlicks #empiremagazine #guardianfilm #totalfilm #kanopy #upgrade @mariodhingsa

(95 mins)

Mario's rating: 4.5/5 (starry nights)

'Paints Out': Astonishing to watch and aching to hear, despite van Gogh's death and loneliness, a most beautiful light seeps into every painted scene, and eventually, your soul.

👍 The Sunflowers: The incredible artwork (that took 125 painters six years to achieve); the impeccable acting by the Polish, Irish and British cast; and the immediate absence of snobbery - you will love this film, even if you don't see the point of paintings.

👎 The Crows: The film lost to 'Coco' at the 2018 Academy Awards. Can the UK still be involved as well as this in such trans-European productions under Brexit? And don't expect this film to have an 'alternative history' happy ending - this isn't directed by Tarantino.

📽️ Favourite scene: The start of the end credits, where the actual portraits, photos and destiny of the film's real characters are revealed.

🥇 Best quote: "But in this death nothing is sad. It takes place in broad daylight, with a sun that floods everything with a light of fine gold."

🙁 Best depressing quote: "[Vincent] looked so happy that this dirty crow was coming close. He didn't seem to care that it ran off with his lunch. And, I thought to myself how lonely is this guy that even a thieving crow brightens up his day?"

⏳ Best lockdown quote: "Days seem like weeks to me. Days are weeks."





#20thCFlicks #empiremagazine #guardianfilm #totalfilm #kanopy #vangogh #saoirseronan @mariodhingsa

(96 mins)

Mario's rating: 4.5/5 (natch)

Whisky Galore: An alcoholic tries quenching the unquenchable, and breaks beneath the unbreakable.

👍 Bottle full: Ray Milland's portrayal of a heavy drinker, who goes from deceit, panic, mania, malevolence, confidence, calm and bliss; and back again. Frank Faylen likewise shines as the cynical, smiling hospital orderly, who has heard every lie, and has sat through every scream.

👎 Bottle empty: The film won four Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay) and co-won the Grand Prix at Cannes, but is largely forgotten. Only 'Marty' (1955) and last year's 'Parasite' have since won both Best Picture and the Grand Prix.

📽️ Favourite scene: The NYC alcoholic ward, where Milland sees how many are like him, and for how many decades they've been trapped.

🥇 Best quote: "I'm not a drinker. I'm a drunk. The reason is me, what I am. Or rather, what I'm not. What I wanted to become but didn't."

🙁 Best depressing quote: "You know, once I even got myself a gun and some bullets. I was going to do it on my 30th birthday. Here are the bullets. The gun went for three quarts of whisky. The flop suicide of a flop writer."

🍊 Best Trump quote:
"I've never done anything! I'm not doing anything! I never will do anything! Zero, zero, zero!"





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