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We picked this because the Netflix preview showed Bryan Cranston and Tina Fey in a stupid film – turned out it was Megan Mullally in a VERY Tina Fey hairdo. Genuinely (wonderfully) stupid film, with the most impressive Chekov’s Gun I think I’ve ever seen. I mean, when in Act 1 you *see* the moose…
Taron Egerton looks different to me in every film he’s been in – if I find myself looking at an actor & wondering who it is, I’ve started just assuming it’s him. Suitably ludicrous airport-thriller centred around getting a suitcase with a frankly absurd amount of Novichok onto a plane, and Jason Bateman as the…
My antipathy towards Marvel franchise continues. I’ve loved the Deadpool films because they seem like (though inevitably they’re carved out of some sort of canon) they’re the kind of Marvel films which just focus on the character (and boy does that character have character) rather than getting bogged down in all the lore and being…
I’d read that Anna Kendrick had gathered some kudos for this one, so I was keen to see how many times she smiled or acted. Not at all what I expected, although I’m not clear where I got my expectations from because clearly I didn’t actually read a damn thing about this film before watching…
Mandatory watching after going on a trip to Bruges, if only to figure out wtf the others were all prattling on about that whole time. Decently quirky Martin McDonagh film about a couple of hitmen holed up in a place their boss remembered fondly from childhood holidays – peering at the gallows. VERY distracting should…
An inspired bit of silliness in the stable of “feels like these streaming services are just grabbing 2 actors and then finding something for them to act in together because audiences will love whatever it is” programming that’s so prevalent at the moment. You watch this because it’s got Clooney and Pitt in it, not…
Suitably ludicrous train/murder film which we put off watching for ages because it looked like either Snowpiercer, or a ripoff thereof. Good fun to watch one we decided to though.
Good example of the nonconformist comedy that the Coen brothers are renowned for. The sad truth however is that this is one of those “Jason” films that got watched post-bedtime, and so definitely involved falling asleep/rewinding and definitely losing grip on elements of the plot at times. Pretty sure I enjoyed it though.
Icons making films about icons. This time, Ron Howard on Jim Henson. Hard to be surprised by a story you know backwards, but it was nice to see all the footage of Jim, the sketchbook and diary content, and so much from the experimental films I’d only read about (Idea Man, Time Piece).