Haiku about Film
Film reviews seen in/ Japanese poetry form/ Brevity at best.
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Penguins of Madagascar, Simon J Smith, USA (2014)
Manic penguins rule,
Chased by a mad octopus.
Gagging on the puns.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
The Bletchley Circle, UK Crima Drama 2012-14
Deep crime has patterns.
Four female war code breakers
Solve, against all odds.
Saturday, December 13, 2014
The Magic of Belle Isle, Rob Reiner, USA (2012)
Panned by the critics,
Suggests interacial love:
Place as a healer.
Friday, December 12, 2014
Wild, Jean-Marc Vallee, USA, ( 2014)
Life is suffering
Told as flashbacks while hiking:
Finding her best Self.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Scott and Bailey, UK Crime Drama (2011-14)
Three ace female cops
With messy personal lives;
Pitching class stories.
Friday, November 28, 2014
On My Way (Elle S'en Va), Emmanuelle Bercot, France (2013)
Homage to beauty-
Frollicking through rural France;
Regrets aren't useful.
Thursday, November 27, 2014
The Book Thief, Brian Percival 2013
Narrated by death:
Nazi destruction again,
The magic of words.
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Fury, David Ayer, USA, (2014)
Unrelenting mud,
Is this an anti-war film?
And killed or be killed.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Whiplash, Damien Chazelle, USA (2014)
Buddy Rich returns:
Tyranny and giftedness,
Bleeding on the kit.
Monday, November 17, 2014
The Bridge, Hans Rosenfeldt, Season 1, 2011
Complicated crime;
Danish and Swedish sleuthing,
With power issues.
Sunday, November 16, 2014
The White Masai, Hermine Huntegbunth, Germany (2005)
Visually hot,
Emmersed in Massai culture:
Love story goes bad.
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Flame & Citron, Ole Christian Madsen, Denmark (2008)
Two Danish hit man:
Collaborators, Nazies;
Confused loyalties.
Friday, November 14, 2014
Hanna's Journey, Julia van Heinz, Germany (2014)
Inherited guilt,
In the context of romance.
Berlin/Israel.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Nebraska, Alexander Payne, USA (2013)
End of life frenzy,
With landscapes grey and striking:
A world unfulfilled.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Happy, Roko Belic, US (2011)
In the west, that is,
Fifty big ones is the bar:
It's all about clan.
Monday, November 10, 2014
Leviathan, Andrei Zvyagintsev, Russia (2014)
Full on corruption,
Vodka, sex, violence: too,
A visual feast.
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story, Grant Baldwin, Canada (2014)
Six months eat for free,
Market play creates hunger.
Start looking in bins.
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Jungle School, Riri Riza, Indonesia (2014)
Teaching man to read,
As poachers pillage and steal.
We've seen that before.
Wallendar, Philip Marton, UK, 2008
Topics with merit,
Existential detective,
Whose life is a mess.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Night Crawler, Dan Gilroy, US (2014).
Competition kills
Those who buy into the game.
US media.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Homeland, US TV Series, Seasons 1 & 2, (2011,12)
Cheesy love story:
Doublecross and doublecross,
Who's the terrorist?
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