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Few films can stand out as being “truly dire” – but this was one of them. Basically forcing the “different generation” trope as a woman who’s been in a coma for 20 years returns to her high school to complete senior year, but bringing with her all the attitudes of a 90s teenager. 👎👎
I loved this. Richard Ayoade directs an off-kilter Gilliam/Brazil-esque vision of a Dostoyevsky story in which an inadequate man encounters, covets, interacts with, worships, and is plagued by a much more successful clone of himself. Making films is such a lottery, isn’t it? This was a gem. 👍👍
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…
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…
What a great little film! Although it’s pretty easy to see why it sat on top of a screenplay blacklist for years (getting made only when Taika Waititi became one of the hottest properties in Hollywood). A delightful piece about the importance of not following the crowd, told through a pretty harrowing and at the…
The main things I took from this were: being impressed at how Timothy Spall was able to keep his facial expression looking exactly like a dog’s anus for the whole film, thinking that Diana’s chambermaids ushering her along a corridor looked like volunteer stewards at a CAMRA beer festival, and empathising with Diana’s feeling of…
Bit of intense war drama here: and definitely not a PR piece for the allies, with Jeremy Irons’s Chamberlain coming across as something of a tit. Some nice stuff about adolescent bonding overcoming contemporary politics and a few nice tense moments to pique the interest.
Christ, I don’t even remember watching this. Vaguely recall something with Affleck in it, playing a troubled-yet-serious-regretful-type. Hey ho, that’s the downside of leaving a few months between watching average films and writing about them. 👎
Quality bit of acting from Sandra Bullock in this one – you want to empathise with her, whilst at the same time being wholly unable to relate to her situation (unusual, as it is). Throw some personality quirks in as well as presumably some learned behaviours, as well as what turns out to be a…
The film that everyone’s calling “the most insightful bit of satire in years”, and which the critics are complaining about – I think it was just excellent. Some great performances by A-listers in non-blockbuster roles, spinning a tale dripping with the kind of inanity our governments & institutions are hurtling towards. The worst thing is…