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Review - Chalet Girl

  By dinglesurf | February 8, 2011 - 12:46 pm | Movies & TV
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Let’s get this straight. I don’t watch T4. I don’t have Twilight posters splashed all over my room. And I don’t navigate my iPod to my latest Lady GaGa playlist every time I turn it on. And therefore I am probably not within the target demographic for first time director Phil Traill’s Chalet Girl. But I do (don’t tell the lads down the pub this) enjoy a good rom-com, and one that is set upon the backdrop of extreme sports and has comedy legends, Bill Nighy and Bailey in the cast, I am willing to give a go… Chalet Girl sees feisty skateboard prodigy Kim Matthews (played with admirable spirit by Felicity Jones) propelled into the upper-class world of a glitzy Alpine ski resort when she is forced to become the breadwinner for her family after the untimely death of her mother. In the space of one winter season she … There’s more →

It’s Complicated: review

  By Niamh | January 29, 2010 - 9:31 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch
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I saw It’s Complicated last week and although Niall had already talked about it here, I thought I’d give you my tuppenceworth too. To put it very simply, Jane and Jake are married, have three children and divorce after twenty years of marriage. Fast forward ten years, Jake has a young wife and step son, both of whom he struggles to keep up with, Jane is single and has thrown all of her energies and passions into her business. They sleep together unexpectedly and the ensuing what will we do, will we get back together, will we tell the children, will we have an affair dilemmas form the basis of the film.

The Proposal. Here comes the bribe…

  By Niamh | July 17, 2009 - 5:00 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch
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With lots of thanks to Movies.ie, I won tickets to the Irish premier of the new romantic comedy, The Proposal. Starring Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock, The Proposal follows the story of Margaret (Bullock), a high flying executive for a publishing house in New York city, and Andrew (Reynolds) her over-worked assistant. When it comes to light that Margaret’s visa has run out and that she is about to be deported back to Canada, she is inspired to tell her bosses and consequently the Department of Immigration that she is engaged to Andrew. The movie follows the duo as they visit his family in Alaska for a weekend to tell them about the engagement, the family’s welcoming her with open arms, the warm fuzzy feeling of being accepted into a family, etc. It’s a simple, enjoyable tale of boy meets girl, boy hates girl, girl hates boy, boy and girl … There’s more →