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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…
How this ever got described as a comedy is a bit of a mystery – but whatever the genre I found it a compelling (if absurd) watch. Having read nothing in advance about it, I really enjoyed the ongoing jaw-drops as the plot developed. And, VERY absurdly, this was the 3rd media property I’d consumed…
A gang of tropes wind up at a rich person’s home to be tormented and in the mix (IS he there by mistake, or not?!) is Daniel Craig channelling the chicken lawyer from Futurama to solve it all at the last minute. A useful illustration of how media positioning can give a consumer the impression…
Starting as a fairly fun social climb tracking the inner machinations of Queen Anne’s rule this piece develops into a manipulative and then dark drama on trust, vulnerability, love and power. It’s a film that’ll mainly be remembered for the disturbing/inconclusive ending, and providing a signature bit of avant-garde weirdness for the director to peg…
Complex whodunnit with quite the cast – certainly no linear solution for Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc to solve… I did find the Southern Gentleman accent a bit distracting, snapping my mind back to the chicken lawyer from Futurama. The characters were all richly defined and uniquely detestable, although I had a soft spot for the…
Pure wank. I mean, you’ve got the ingredients for a sure-fire winner of a film when you cast Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny, RZA, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, Danny Glover and Tilda Swinton in a small-town zombie flick. But somehow Jim Jarmusch managed to wrestle it into an attempt at a consciously quirky &…
We chose this totally at random off Netflix without having heard or read anything about it, purely on the strength of it having Frances McDormand in the lead role. Captivating film with some great performances, in a sort of Coen-esque story replete with moral ambiguity and people doing the best they could under the circumstances….