8:00 PM, 23rd February, 2007
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Kazakhstani TV personality Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the "greatest country in the world". With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson than in his assignment.Quite possibly one the funniest movies to come out in a decade, Cohendoes a brilliant job of making his character real as he tours the US talking toAmericans who do not realise how much he is mocking them.From inappropriately groping random gay men to throwing one dollar billsat evil Jewish cockroaches' (Cohen is Jewish), Cohen violates all barriers of social appropriateness. Definitely a great movie.'
9:23 PM, 23rd February, 2007
Based on the novel by Peter Mayle and adapted by Marc Klein (Serendipity), A Good Year tells us of Max Skinners (Crowe) old Uncle Henry (Finney), a winemaker and gadabout living on a vineyard in Provence, France. The two had a close relationship when Max was young. Now Henry has died and left the estate to Max, who spends his days terrorising London's economic community with his barely legal stock-trading techniques. Max figures to sell the old place and get it off his hands, but when he visits it, the memories come flooding back.The first shot of A Good Year looks like a Monet painting - all lily pads, aging architecture and magic-hour lighting - and the sights only get better from there. Director Ridley Scott takes an area filled with natural beauty and uses it to his advantage. Whether Scott is using his skills to create a sense of dread on a space station (Alien) or the confusion and chaos of battle (Black Hawk Down), he has a unique talent for making members of an audience forget that they're in a theatre. This is Russell Crowe's first attempt at comedy. He should play closer to his strengths. But at least this is an opportunity to openly laugh at Russell Crowe without fear of getting your head punched in. '
Jacinta Nicol