BASED ON A TRUE STORY tale of strippers who band together to fleece Wall Street types, in which nobody comes off particularly well. I think I was fine with it when it was just the strippers taking advantage of the
The Aeronauts
Victorian tale of balloonists pushing the boundaries of science & learning a lot about life and each other suspended in a tiny basket tens of thousands of feet above London. PROPERLY gave me the willies, if only due to the
Frost/Nixon
Dramatisation of entertainment playboy & lightweight David Frost’s campaign to bring attention to himself for interviewing disgraced former President, Richard Nixon – majestically performed by Michael Sheen and Frank Langella. Wonderful piece of cinema, in that the performances capture the
Bombshell
Excellent portrayal of one side of the Megyn Kelly / Gretchen Carlson / Roger Ailes / Fox News situation, which we’d become familiar with through The Loudest Voice. As with any biopic dramas like this, it’s necessarily a point of
Imperium
Occasionally paging through film descriptions on a streaming service one will pop up which you’d never have pictured yourself as being interested in or even having heard about, but seems like it’d make an interesting watch – and this was
The Red Sea Diving Resort
The key phrase of the films I watched in 2019 seems to be “based on a true story”. In this case, a Mossad operation to evacuate Ethiopian Jews from Sudan by setting up a cover operation of a holiday resort.
Fighting with My Family
I remember THIS one! You’ve got to love any story about WWE wrestling whose promotional spiel includes the sentence “Based on a true story”. And it’s got Nick Frost & Lena Headey playing a husband & wife. AND The Rock
Colette
This one was quite good – we were mainly attracted to it due to the presence of Dominic West, who’s always first & foremost going to be Jimmy McNulty for us, and therefore hearing him speak in any accent other
Life Itself
Good lord, I really have to write these little summaries as I go rather than retrospectively, cos I’ve no memory of this film either. Maybe it’s a comment on watching too much stuff? I vaguely recall seeing Banderas and Patinkin
The Upside
A fairly “by numbers” piece in which a misanthropic wheelchair-bound millionaire contrarily hires a parolee-jobseeker who’s walked into the wrong room, and through their time together each learns a lot about themselves, etc. Decent performances from Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart,