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I’m a bit sheepish about clicking on music documentaries on streaming services because of the high volume of non-stories that have come out of it – however this one was pretty decent; less about any specific band and more an extended chat with the still-living half (/third) of Rock Album Cover creators of legend, Hipgnosis….
GREETINGS STARFIGHTER! YOU HAVE BEEN RECRUITED BY THE STAR LEAGUE TO DEFEND THE FRONTIER AGAINST XUR, AND THE KO-DAN ARMADA. GET READY! Screened on the Bristol IMAX screen as part of the excellent Forbidden Worlds festival – this tale of a trailer park whiz kid being recruited by an alien to pilot a fighter spacecraft…
Watching old films is really like opening a time capsule, and this Pam Grier opus was really something – a no-nonsense woman, in a chauvinist world. I feel like the story raised more questions than it answered, but it was a reminder of just how ad-hoc the 1970s were. Also how the discipline of filmmaking…
Can’t say I really enjoyed this, or agreed with the critics who gave it a good writeup. Yes, in many ways it was a compelling story about a talented young drummer being pushed towards excellence by a domineering, abusive conductor. I know I’m no world-class musician, but I’m enough of a musician to know that…
Event biopic (?) of the GameStop penny stock explosion bringing a seemingly ludicrous story to life only to reveal that it was pretty accurate. Jaw dropping in concept and something which doesn’t bear thinking about too much before you start wondering why you bother going to work at all. Damaged for me by a massive…
Upon starting this we wondered how in the hell Roberts, Clooney and West could’ve starred in a film we’d never heard of – and upon watching it everything made horrible sense. This is a straight-to-video turd. Interesting premise, with some absurd plot developments, and then reason completely takes leave of the script the moment the…
It’s tough with these franchises-of-my-childhood getting latter-day instalments, because the key players are all past it and the wellspring of ideas it all stemmed from was long since exhausted. So, the best thing you can say about this was that it wasn’t as bad as the last Indiana Jones film. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s character carries most…
The ol’ car salesman/family man with the secret past as a top-level assassin trope, eh? I chalked this one up as enjoyable nonsense of the sort of film you watch on a weekend when you don’t want a challenge. There’s plenty of better films out there, but I don’t regret watching this one.