Did I already mention the weekend movie hierarchy around here? Typically if we’re not watching one of the Tv series we go through, next request will be “Let’s watch a shit movie!”, so it’s either romcoms or disaster films, or
Killers
I’m not sure how we end up watching so many rom coms involving assassins, but my inability to lose myself in an actor’s performance and instead think of their past works had me thinking about Steve Jobs being an assassin.
The Gentlemen
Guy Ritchie seemingly signs on all his current cool acting mates for another convoluted extensively-casted crime caper, this time with Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Charlie Hunnam, Matthew McConaughey et al. Hunnam seems unable to deliver anything nuanced (albeit a much
Snitch
The combination of Dwayne Johnson, the phrase “based on a true story”, and an IMDB rating of 6.4 probably best convey what this tale of a construction company owner going undercover to free his wrongfully imprisoned son is going to
Big Trouble in Little China
Y’know what Jack Burton always says on a dark & stormy night, with the wind howling and the pillars of heaven shaking? Timeless classic that has all the ingredients of AWESOME. Why people even bothered making more films after this
Angel Has Fallen
3rd instalment in the “… Has Fallen” franchise, starring Gerard Butler (in this case, looking more like Russell Crowe). Really ought to have called this “Standards Have Fallen”. Liz fell asleep, and I can’t see her dialling back in to
Peppermint
Vigilante one-man-weapon film that’s a one-woman-weapon film starring Jennifer Garner. I really enjoyed this, although it was very interesting to me how much my brain kept wrestling with the concept that she’d gone from Ordinary Mom in act one of
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
I guess I’ve come to regard John Wick films as the really-violent-film equivalent of opera: there’s not usually much to the story, but the dressing is incredibly rich, and the quality & artistry’s all in the fight sequences. There’s a
Mr. Right
The Acting Range of Anna Kendrick heads up this oddball piece alongside Sam Rockwell, in which Rockwell plays a hitman with what can only be described as a fairly unconventional business model, and a very non-standard romcom situation comes into
A Good Day to Die Hard (Die Hard: Mission to Moscow)
Bruce Willis goes on holiday to Russia, and then some bullshit happens, and I don’t really know because I fell asleep a few times during it and it was nonsense. McClane protesteth many times that he was “only here on