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There’s a lot of shit out there on the streaming services, isn’t there? I mean – you FEEL like you’ve got all the media in the world at your fingertips, and yet you find yourself going “Muuuuuh… I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO WATCH!”. So you start spelunking through lists curated by god knows what halfwitted…
I’ll be honest – I don’t think I “got” this. I was attracted by the names… Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub make for an attention-grabbing casting, for sure. Throw in Alison Janney, and it seems a cert. But pastiche characters and a farfetched plotline seemed to point to some sort of moralistic tale, or SOMETHING,…
It seemed ambitious to mount an expedition on a schoolnight to the cinema to see a 155 min space fantasy, especially given the quality of sleep I got during Blade Runner 2049. Yet Dune was a surprisingly gripping telling of a quite in-depth book and kept my attention the whole way through. I was surprised…
Complex whodunnit with quite the cast – certainly no linear solution for Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc to solve… I did find the Southern Gentleman accent a bit distracting, snapping my mind back to the chicken lawyer from Futurama. The characters were all richly defined and uniquely detestable, although I had a soft spot for the…
Galaxy Quest was released 20 years ago. Let THAT sink in. This documentary is a wonderful retrospective about the making and impact of a truly wonderful little science fiction comedy – told through the eyes of fans, filmmakers, cast and crew. It reinforces that Galaxy Quest is considered one of the best films in the…
Gripping documentary/catalogue of hate-targets surrounding a company geared to target “influencers”, setting up a high-end festival on a tropical paradise, and the attendant tale of how neglect, pig-headedness and wilful denial of the facts led to the event seeing thousands of entitled arseholes travel to an island to learn that the promises had all been…
And then they went to a glamorous place, to find someone. Then there was loads of shooting, and they found the name of someone else, so they went to another glamorous place to find them. And then there was loads of shooting. Etc. It delivered everything visually/viscerally I’d expect from a Bond film – whilst…
Didn’t actually finish this one – I think we got about halfway through, but evidently I wanted to note down that it was a massive steaming turd of a film. A bunch of kids get designer-raised and sent into space for a life-long mission to get to Mars so that their children can carry out…
Bond For Workgroups 7.0 or something, right? I didn’t remember exactly what the last of the M:I franchise I saw was although I do recall wondering when they dropped from quasi-decent action/thrillers into complete farce. Seems that with this instalment they’ve brought it back around to form, at least. Of course now one second-guesses which…
It’s the third… aaaaah, OK then. You can go into tedious detail about Jackson taking licence with Tolkien’s magnum opus, but there’s no denying that this trilogy is a masterpiece of ambition and scale, and that there’d never been anything quite like it – and I’m hard pressed to think of anything since. It’s gotten…