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Watching old films is really like opening a time capsule, and this Pam Grier opus was really something – a no-nonsense woman, in a chauvinist world. I feel like the story raised more questions than it answered, but it was a reminder of just how ad-hoc the 1970s were. Also how the discipline of filmmaking…
Once I’d gotten past the eeriness of a younger Alec Guinness being very reminiscent of the face of Kevin Spacey, I really enjoyed this little larcenous romp. Also deligthed to recognise the bloke from My Fair Lady as well (although then got further distracted by humming the songs every time he came on screen). I…
This was a film I was convinced I’d watched loads of times, but gave it another watch because I tried REALLY hard to remember what it was about, and couldn’t. It later occurred to me that I never actually watched it – I just used to watch the opening credits Over and Over and Over…
A product of one of my occasional whims to watch something on Netflix that has a 7.0-or-higher IMDB score (if only to stem the incessant flow of shite), and I realised I’d never seen this! GREAT cast working a multi-layered story of 1950s police racketeering amid sleazy LA. How in the hell did I miss…
I’ve seen this a few times before (incl. the Swedish original, and reading the books), but rewatched cos we were on a boat sitting around in a harbour and there was jeff-all else to do. I suppose the thing that struck me was that the film is mercifully free of the author describing the furniture…
4 goes to finish this (interrupted by couch-snoozin), which is no way to give a film an objective go at being received well, is it? For starters, I’m not someone who generally gives a monkey’s about comicbook films. Then there was the hype… I guess I just found this REALLY unedifying. Neither rooted enough in…
Turns out the world needed another Batman movie. Who knew. This time it’s (naturally) a bit grittier than the previous ones. I enjoyed the home-grown sensibility of some of the costumes & gear, and there’s little point in focusing on which bits seemed contrived given that THE WHOLE THING IS MASSIVELY CONTRIVED. Bad guy The…
I’ve no idea why. Not Kristen Bell’s finest film, tbh. Actually, though it was “inspired by true events” (which sounds like some kind of weaselly way of getting out of some kind of corner that “based on a true story” paints you into) there was a lot in this film that clearly wasn’t based on…
This film was basically the same concept as The Hitman’s Bodyguard: that is to say, take a couple of fun-to-watch actors, then loosely give them a plot to hang from as they fanny about being over the top & ridiculous at each other. I’m SURE it’s a total coincidence Ryan Reynolds was involved in both. …
There’s a lot of shit out there on the streaming services, isn’t there? I mean – you FEEL like you’ve got all the media in the world at your fingertips, and yet you find yourself going “Muuuuuh… I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO WATCH!”. So you start spelunking through lists curated by god knows what halfwitted…