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The Jesus Bombs, rather. So I’ve been anticipating this character spinoff from The Big Lebowski for AGES now, and Liz being out one night provided the perfect opportunity – and, casting the film’s 4.3 IMDB stars to one side, in I went. If there was ONE takeaway from Pirates Of The Caribbean 4: On Stranger…
36 hour timeframe and 4 or 5 overlapping stories/lives/interactions set in LA, hinging around racism and frustration. Strong performances and quite a confronting series of issues, really. And fascinating to look at this film made in 2005 through the lens of BLM. I guess we’re not making quite the progress that we ought to be,…
What would you call her – an anti-daterape vigilante? Quite a well-assembled if somewhat confronting film centring around the notion that even the niceguys behave like total dicks when they think they can get away with it. Important points to talk/think about? Yeah. Depressing comment on the state of humanity? Fuck yeah. Triggering defensive feelings…
Ben Affleck as former-basketball-superstar turned coach of church high school team. Felt a bit like a by-the-numbers underdog-comes-good tale with a mixture of tragic father figure. I don’t think I’m ever gonna think of this other than “a film I saw”. Made me think a lot more highly of The Accountant, I guess.
I love a good “girls strike back” film, only it genuinely pisses me off that this kind of female empowerment has to come as a result of guys being complete dicks. Why can’t we have a story where the alpha-jock types are supportive and respectful of women from the get-go? I suppose it doesn’t leave…
It’s been a while since I saw a film this genre-ambiguous. Seemingly a comedy lining up Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro & Jackie Weaver in the prime roles, Jennifer Lawrence tangents in and all of a sudden the film switches orbits, resulting in a very odd plot that goes nowhere near where you thought you were…
Atmospheric World War 1 drama seemingly captured in a single shot (it wasn’t, but it seemed to have been), with a cast that was either great actors or less-great actors whose presence made you think “I bet they were thinking they’d prefer to have [great actor’s name] there”. Co-starred King Tommen for most of it,…
Totally didn’t recognise Renee Zellweger in this biopic focus on the latter years of Judy Garland’s life – what a surreal life though… People in the nexus of global adoration can end up leading lives so far detached from “the normal experience” (whatever that is), which Carrie Fisher did an amazing job of describing in…