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I was drawn back to a rewatch of this following hearing Lucy Prebble on the ALWAYS EXCELLENT Rule of Three podcast – and though visibly an artefact of its time, I thought it was an incredibly well put together film. Romantic comedy masterclass, and makes me smile to see Billy Crystal as a romantic lead…
HOOOO-AAAH! Ok, so choosing this was probably an exercise in half-remembered nostalgia – I’m still pretty sure it’s a good film, but it’s VISIBLY from 1992. Philip Seymour Hoffman looks like a tiny child, and the whole affair definitely looks like it was designed to squeeze a bit of extra value out of a Dead…
Brad Pitt & Jonah Hill lead the dramatisation of Michael Lewis’s book of the same title, centering around the building of a baseball team via statistical modelling rather than more traditional talent scout approaches. I found myself willing myself on to like this because of the Michael Lewis connection, even in spite of it being…
Clint Eastwood playing a hard-as-nails veteran/former assembly line worker living in suburban Detroit, as well as directing the film (prior to his penchant for speaking to furniture developed). Richly acted and though predictable also wins you over in the same way the Vietnamese family slowly, reluctantly win him over. Still lands as a powerful film…
So, the goal of watching “a shit film” doesn’t alway pan out, and in this case seeing a cast list with the names “Nicholson / DiCaprio / Damon” in it meant no further searching was needed. Unfortunately for me, I have a genuine problem telling DiCaprio and Damon apart – no idea why. Still, a…
We weren’t really paying attention in this – it’s got The Rock, but he’s playing a sort-of-bad-guy (as you’re constantly reminded by the prosthetic scars) on a revenge mission: it makes a tilt at moral ambiguity but you never really get there, and in the end I think we only let it finish because we…
Surprisingly emotional/dramatic piece for a cast of this pedigree (Bateman, Fey, Fonda, Driver, Byrne) with not quite enough comedy to push it out of being a drama. Enjoyable enough but pretty middle-of-the-road.
No, we’re NOT obsessed with The Rock. We can stop watching his films any time we want… no, YOU’RE crying. etc. So, this one’s BASED ON A TRUE STORY (credible), where an ex-marine goes back to his hometown but doesn’t wanna get involved in the shenanigans at the casino, gets himself elected sheriff following a…
Throwback to the late-90s with this one, which when asked I realised I’d never actually seen! It’s funny how your enjoyment of a film becomes harder in an objective sense when so many cultural tropes are derived from it… and then there’s the whole Kevin Smith connection (which had me thinking “Applesauce, bitch!” for most…