Movie Review: Push

Before I launch into a review of this movie, I should confess that I was on drugs when I saw it. Painkillers, that is, but it meant that I kept falling asleep while watching. This is not a comment on the movie, it's just that Morgan+painkillers+dark cinema=sleep.

So, Push. You know how trailers for RomCom always seem to put the entire movie into sixty seconds, so there's actually no need to actually see the film? Well, Push is almost the exact opposite of that. The plot synopsis given in the trailer (at least the one I saw) has very little resemblance to the actual movie plot...unless maybe I slept through more than I think.

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I would recommend this movie, but I'd recommend it as one to watch on DVD. The complex plot would be easier to follow in that format and unlike many movies I don't think it would lose much on the small screen.

Movie Review: Franklyn

Franklyn is a British-made, independent film. I didn't have high expectations: the movie poster makes it look like a crappy horror movie and the trailer, though intriguing enough to get me to see the film, makes it look like pretentious arthouse nonsense. But it's neither of those things and I really enjoyed it.

The film is set in modern day London and a parallel fantasy world called Meanwhile City. The plot is made up of four apparently unconnected stories: Emilia (Eva Green) is a depressed goth art student who films herself attempting suicide as an "art project"; Peter (Bernard Hill) is a father searching for his missing son; Milo (Sam Riley) is a young man whose fiancée left him at the altar (all of these plots are set in modern London) and in the dark world of Meanwhile City, John Preest (Ryan Phillippe) is a masked man planning an assassination in revenge for the death of a young girl.

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if you enjoy movies that play with reality, like Pan's Labyrinth or Vanilla Sky, or if you love the rusty-gothic visuals (think of a steampunk version of Chris Nolan's Gotham City and you'll be on the right track) you might like to give it a try. Definitely worth seeing on the big screen.