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Confession time: I’d never seen this end-to-end. Turns out I’ve seen it all in fits & bursts over the years (commencing with a run at it at Martyn Symons’ house when I was about 14 – around the same time I discovered Spinal Tap, but hadn’t yet “got it”)… and of course a film that’s…
Former YouTube musical comedian Bo Burnham put together this lockdown-prompted special, forming my first introduction to his work. Immediately one has to be impressed with the creativity employed to make use of the room he’s limited to. What’s more difficult to reconcile for me was the solipsistic nature of the material – which doesn’t jive…
I’ve no idea how we got onto this, other than maybe it being on a list of “20 worthy films to watch” in The Observer or something, but I’m so glad we did. Seeing a film produced by a different culture (South Korean) is an interesting and different-shaped lens to what we’re used to from…
Fairly gruelling but well-assembled historical drama covering the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings around sexual harassment. Amid the distraction of “Where do I know her from?!” (Kerry Washington, the mother from Little Fires Everywhere), the main response from us was incredulity at the dismissive attitudes portrayed to the womens’ stories – serving as a reminder that…
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…
Agreeing to marry your ball-bustin’ boss to keep your job because her visa’s expired and she doesn’t want to leave the country? Yep – perfectly reasonable premise there. The stupidity unfolds as we discover that Ryan Reynolds’ character’s heir to an Alaskan business empire & is trying to claw his way into publishing because that’s…
“I’m gonna show you what a bad day looks like, lady”. Well, Russell – you certainly showed us what a bad film looks like. I’ve no idea what this film was trying to set up, but it wasn’t any sort of empathy with Crowe’s overweight, overbearing, white entitled ass character – sadistically and relentlessly Terminatoring…
Frigging silly film – definitely earned all of it’s 5.8 IMDB stars. Frequently treading the wrong side of the border with “too stupid”, there was something loveable about this. I really can’t put my finger on why I didn’t hate it. Zach Galifianakis is conspicuously absurd, and the one thing this film DIDN’T need was…
Probably best summed up by how I recalled it to Adrian – “I didn’t get it initially, then I THOUGHT I got it, and then sort-of understood it (or at least tried to convince myself I did) until practically the end, and then it sorta all fell into place”. Probably worked a lot better as…
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,…