Mr. Pikko rarely asks to see a movie, so when he requested we actually go see Sucker Punch in IMAX, it really says something about the movie’s marketing. Not that I needed persuasion, as the movie looked like it had a fascinating premise, scads of eye candy, and actually starred an actress I’m quite fond of: Emily Browning.
The only other movie I’ve seen her in is Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Anyone who’s known me since high school knows that I used to have a rather unhealthy obsession with Romeo and Juliet, particularly Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet
Ever since I dragged my dearly beloved to Black Swan a couple of weeks ago, he’s made this warped and pained face whenever I talk about going to the movies again, so to smooth things over I decided to pick something that might be a little more his type of movie as a peace offering. I do, after all, need a movie partner.
He didn’t really want to see Unknown, so I went for the one that was pitched during the last UFC: The Eagle.
Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis dance their hearts out in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, a film 10 years in the making.
Review of Golden Globe Best Picture winner ‘The Social Network’, starring Jesse Eisenberg, about the founding of Facebook.
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