I couldn’t BELIEVE that the original Zombieland film was 10 years old – hell of a long wait for a seemingly inconsequential sequel, and while it’s true this film isn’t going to change lives, it IS a wonderful & fun
The Hitman’s Bodyguard
MASTERPIECE. Liz was convinced we’d already seen this, but as it didn’t appear in my Media Roundups anywhere it’s clear that there’s NO WAY I could have already seen it. Even despite how familiar lots of bits in it were.
Miss Congeniality
Can’t believe I hadn’t seen this – and I think it unlocked a bit more of an understanding for me about why people are so interested in Sandra Bullock. I’d always found her a bit beige as an actor, however
The Hunt
Is it dystopian, or COULD IT ACTUALLY BE HAPPENING? Ultra rich people pay vast sums of money to hunt live poor people for sport: instantly goes a little “Hunger Games”, with shades of familiarity due to its supposed setting. There
The Brothers Grimsby
This is possibly cinema’s new low-point. I’m weirdly defensive of the work of Sacha Baron Cohen, believing him to be a far more intelligent social commentator and exposer of peoples’ prejudices than a perfunctory skim of his work would suggest…
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
OH MY GOD. This turd of a film was the sequel that nobody needed. Like millions of people, I was captivated by Ang Lee’s 2000 martial arts masterpiece, and so held disproportionately high hopes for this film… albeit with a
Faster
We weren’t really paying attention in this – it’s got The Rock, but he’s playing a sort-of-bad-guy (as you’re constantly reminded by the prosthetic scars) on a revenge mission: it makes a tilt at moral ambiguity but you never really
Walking Tall
No, we’re NOT obsessed with The Rock. We can stop watching his films any time we want… no, YOU’RE crying. etc. So, this one’s BASED ON A TRUE STORY (credible), where an ex-marine goes back to his hometown but doesn’t
Skyscraper
Standard awesome Dwayne Johnson fare – set in a 130+ storey high bleeding-edge-tech building, the titular “skyscraper” – and just for shits & giggles Johnson’s character has an artificial leg. Which, y’know, I’m sure was a centrepiece of the original
Rampage
When someone bases a film on the giant-mutant-gorilla/lizard/wolf-centred video game which the designers famously described as “a game that there was really no wrong way to play”, this is exactly what you end up with. Granted, the film had much