Magic Mike (15)
(Steven Soderbergh, 2012, Us) Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Cody Horn, Matthew McConaughey, Olivia Munn. 110 mins
The roles are reversed but the themes are familiar in this rise-and-fall tale of male strippers, making and losing their way in a (sort of) woman's world. It's like a cross between The Full Monty, Boogie Nights and Showgirls, sketching a landscape of exploitation and desperation – even as it participates in it by serving up the barely clad Tatum and other beef products.
Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World (15)
(Lorene Scafaria, 2012, Us) Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Patton Oswalt. 101 mins
Do passion and the apocalypse mix? Or Carell and Knightley? This faltering effort tries anyway.
Detachment (15)
(Tony Kaye, 2011, Us) Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden. 98 mins
No provocation left behind in this scathing schoolroom drama with a starry cast.
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (U)
(Steve Martino, Mark Thurmeier, 2012, Us) Ray Romano, Denis Leary.
(Steven Soderbergh, 2012, Us) Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Cody Horn, Matthew McConaughey, Olivia Munn. 110 mins
The roles are reversed but the themes are familiar in this rise-and-fall tale of male strippers, making and losing their way in a (sort of) woman's world. It's like a cross between The Full Monty, Boogie Nights and Showgirls, sketching a landscape of exploitation and desperation – even as it participates in it by serving up the barely clad Tatum and other beef products.
Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World (15)
(Lorene Scafaria, 2012, Us) Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Patton Oswalt. 101 mins
Do passion and the apocalypse mix? Or Carell and Knightley? This faltering effort tries anyway.
Detachment (15)
(Tony Kaye, 2011, Us) Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden. 98 mins
No provocation left behind in this scathing schoolroom drama with a starry cast.
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (U)
(Steve Martino, Mark Thurmeier, 2012, Us) Ray Romano, Denis Leary.
- 7/13/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Debut film-maker Guy Browning occasionally achieves a homespun, unassuming daftness with his rural romcom
There is a sprinkling of gags in this modest romantic comedy from debut film-maker Guy Browning. Occasionally, it achieves a homespun, unassuming daftness. Tom is a young man who chucks in a big-city job and comes back to his home village and takes a lowly position as a gardener. As played by Tom Mitchelson, Tom does a fair bit of Hugh Grant-ish stammering and flinching as he falls in love with a pretty Polish au pair, Anya, played by Alice Zawadski. But silly Tom is as slow as a tortoise when it comes to plucking up the courage to ask her out. The comedy locals have to jolly him along. It's gentle, well-meaning, a bit watery.
Rating: 2/5
RomanceComedyPeter Bradshaw
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use...
There is a sprinkling of gags in this modest romantic comedy from debut film-maker Guy Browning. Occasionally, it achieves a homespun, unassuming daftness. Tom is a young man who chucks in a big-city job and comes back to his home village and takes a lowly position as a gardener. As played by Tom Mitchelson, Tom does a fair bit of Hugh Grant-ish stammering and flinching as he falls in love with a pretty Polish au pair, Anya, played by Alice Zawadski. But silly Tom is as slow as a tortoise when it comes to plucking up the courage to ask her out. The comedy locals have to jolly him along. It's gentle, well-meaning, a bit watery.
Rating: 2/5
RomanceComedyPeter Bradshaw
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use...
- 7/12/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★☆☆☆☆ Made on a shoestring budget in the sleepy Oxfordshire village of Kingston Bagpuize, and featuring an unknown cast incorporating local residents, humorist Guy Browning's airy-fairy rom-com Tortoise in Love (2011) undoubtedly has a great deal of goodwill on its side. Unfortunately, amateurish performances, turgid dialogue and a sexist streak more at home in the dark days of 1970s dismantle this admirably-funded project from the inside out.
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- 7/12/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
On Thursday 24th May the streets of the picturesque Oxfordshire village of Kingston Bagpuize will be deserted as nearly the entire population will be in Leicester Square to see the fruition of a dream: the premiere of Tortoise in Love and we have two tickets to giveaway to one lucky HeyUGuys reader! Tortoise in Love is a charming and genuinely funny romantic comedy which has been specially selected to have a Premiere in the newly re-opened Leicester Square and will form part of the events to mark the occasion! In the year of the Queen’s Jubilee this is a true celebration of British creativity, community spirit and something everyone in Kingston Bagpuize is rightly proud of and you could be there to celebrate this!
Tom, gardener at the big house, is not a fast mover with women. In fact he’s glacially slow. When beautiful Polish au pair Anya arrives for the summer,...
Tom, gardener at the big house, is not a fast mover with women. In fact he’s glacially slow. When beautiful Polish au pair Anya arrives for the summer,...
- 5/21/2012
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
When Guy Browning wanted to make a film, he got the whole of the Oxfordshire village of Kingston Bagpuize to help – as financiers, extras and even stars
Snow lay thick over the little village of Kingston Bagpuize in Oxfordshire when the fateful decision was made to produce a feature-length romantic comedy and take it all the way to Leicester Square. Three years later, 800 villagers are about to walk up the red carpet to see Tortoise in Love have its premiere this Thursday.
When I finished the last of my regular columns in the Guardian, I set myself the challenge of making a movie. The script was written. A gardener in the big house falls in love but is agonisingly slow to make a move. So the whole village gets together to speed things up.
That's the plot, but it's also how the film was made. It was too late to...
Snow lay thick over the little village of Kingston Bagpuize in Oxfordshire when the fateful decision was made to produce a feature-length romantic comedy and take it all the way to Leicester Square. Three years later, 800 villagers are about to walk up the red carpet to see Tortoise in Love have its premiere this Thursday.
When I finished the last of my regular columns in the Guardian, I set myself the challenge of making a movie. The script was written. A gardener in the big house falls in love but is agonisingly slow to make a move. So the whole village gets together to speed things up.
That's the plot, but it's also how the film was made. It was too late to...
- 5/20/2012
- by Guy Browning
- The Guardian - Film News
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