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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…
Can’t say I really enjoyed this, or agreed with the critics who gave it a good writeup. Yes, in many ways it was a compelling story about a talented young drummer being pushed towards excellence by a domineering, abusive conductor. I know I’m no world-class musician, but I’m enough of a musician to know that…
Event biopic (?) of the GameStop penny stock explosion bringing a seemingly ludicrous story to life only to reveal that it was pretty accurate. Jaw dropping in concept and something which doesn’t bear thinking about too much before you start wondering why you bother going to work at all. Damaged for me by a massive…
I’m all for an apocalyptic nightmare, and this bit featured some particularly strong facets – however what DOES leave my cheese out in the wind is this modern predilection for stories that don’t really have a conclusion. Less a story, and more of a series of things happening.
Enjoyable piece centering around the relative shoe minnow Nike’s campaign to woo Michael Jordan as their figurehead basketball star. I love watching Affleck/Damon at work, with their easy friendship stretching back decades – and the addition of Jason Bateman was a wonderful extra bit of seasoning. Couldn’t help but notice though how for what was…
Cinematic presentation of the 1970’s seminal Judy Blume book about coming of age, religious freedom and bodily autonomy: and I only agreed to go to this because I was thinking of a totally different story when asked. In hindsight, nobody’s going to remake 1977’s “Oh, God!” – who the hell would you cast in the…
Good choice of film for in-flight watching, cos it translates well to the seatback screen. Pretty bleak stuff but very emotional and well-told. It’s incredibly fortunate that Brendan Fraser was cast (as he does a stellar job) rather than an earlier choice of James Corden. And I thought it was very coincidental that Hong Chau…
You’d think taking the story of The Judgement of Paris (the 1976 blind wine tasting where California beat France) and putting Alan Rickman in one of the key seats alongside Bill Pullman would be an instant classic – but this was a masterclass in squandering some great cloth. It’s like the note was, “Hey Alan…
In summary this sounded like a fairly hapless teen-rock journey to confidence type story, so during the opening credits I was a bit surprised to see the monikers of Weiss & Benioff (of Game of Thrones fame). Don’t remember much about it other than battle of the bands… metal band… errm… nerds? Yeah, probs not…