Movies We Watch

Charming Australian film about 3 friends, possible riches, and how friendship means more than money. and you get to hear Eric Bana using his real voice instead of the American accent he uses most of the time. imdb.com ‘The Nugget’ looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class men – [...]

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Craig Ferguson continually delivers sweet little UK films with a happy ending. You can count on it. And as we have come to do so, we decided to watch this film. We knew it wouldn’t be too heavy and that everything would be great in the end. And it was. A musician knocks up a [...]

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I like Kate Winslet. Though the first time I recall seeing her was in Titanic, the work I have seen since then has impressed. I also came to a whole new respect for her after her guest appearance on “Extras”. If you haven’t seen it, you must. So we put this film in our queue [...]

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We had been looking for a nice charming British film to follow “Saving Grace” from a couple nights ago. This was the closest we could find. The film is about a young girl and her campaign to try and get Queen Elizabeth to come to her small town in New Zealand when she made her [...]

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We have a major weakness for small town films from the UK, especially if they have Brenda Blethyn in them. Why? Because the characters are always someone you can give a crap about, do something out of character, and are generally light. This film was no exception. Grace finds herself a widow and that her [...]

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We put off watching this movie for quite a while because it is about a guy that discovers he has Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Not known for being a kind disease we figured this would be quite a downer. We were pleasantly surprised. It isn’t the most upbeat film, but it deals with the situtation in [...]

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I wish I had recorded this film in HD. The scenery was amazing. Beautiful shots of his travel, amazing views of the garden, long flowing looks at the village he visits in Japan. The scenery was the best part of this film. It wasn’t bad, it was just slow. Really, really slow. And I guess [...]

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Often I find Australian films endearing and often they have a sweet edge to them, even when they discuss really sad things. Lantana was not a usual Australian film. It was long. Took forever to get to any type of action. The idea behind the film is that one woman’s death connects a variety of [...]

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