The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
It’s the second bit of Lord of the Rings… what do you want me to say? 👍
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
It’s Lord of the Rings… what do you want me to say? 👍
Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard
Heheh, NOW we’re talking. Basically this film’s just an excuse to team Ryan Reynolds, Salma Hayek, and Samuel L. Jackson up again – does it really MATTER what it’s about? With Michael Bryce (Reynolds) having lost his AAA rating he’s desperate to prove himself and get back into the accredited bodyguard scene, and gets hired…
Run Hide Fight
No idea how we stumbled on this one – must’ve been streaming-service promotion? Active shooter situation in a US high school, centred around a plucky underdog heroine. It’s interesting that the “school siege” scenario’s now such a commonplace notion that there are now listicles entitled “20 Great Movies About School Shootings”, etc. – and this…
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
Intimate documentary about the reunion of the Monty Python team for their famous Final Concert series at the O2 in 2014 (of which I was very fortunate to attend twice!). Having seen 20+ years of the Pythons reminiscing about Python, this was a chance to see it actually HAPPENING behind the scenes, and it was…
The Interview
I think I watched this after Liz went to bed, because I was curious about what had prompted the ire of the North Korean Government and a globally-famous computer hack. I mean, if it HADn’t been for that bit of world politics you could’ve completely bypassed this Seth Rogen by-the-numbers “goofy fuckup lands in a…
Bad Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
It feels like if 2020 was the year of Dwayne Johnson, then 2021 is the year of Seth Rogen. Clearly, the word-with-self has not yet been had. Byrne & Rogen – having seen off the fraternity – want to sell their house to upscale to their dream house… but, just before the sale would you…
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
The algorithms seem to be doing some quite heavy lifting in my life these days – but Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Adam Devine and Zac Efron were enough to sell us into watching this story about 2 rich party-boy brothers who need respectable dates for a wedding in Hawaii, and so (naturally) they advertise on…
Bad Neighbors
Don’t remember how we got on to this – it’s unlikely to have been on the strength of Seth Rogen’s involvement (“oh look, another plot involving a man-child who takes a load of drugs and whose lack of responsibility somehow bites him in the ass”), so maybe it came up as a result of an…
Georgetown
An interesting story behind this one, and I thought that Chrisophe Waltz starring and directing would make for quite the package – however the outcome in this case was a fairly slow and wandering relating of the tale of a man who was so OBVIOUSLY a fraud (but, was he?) inveigling his way into an…