Moneyball

    Brad Pitt & Jonah Hill lead the dramatisation of Michael Lewis’s book of the same title, centering around the building of a baseball team via statistical modelling rather than more traditional talent scout approaches.  I found myself willing myself on to like this because of the Michael Lewis connection, even in spite of it being…

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      Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

      Baron-Cohen strikes again with his is-it-holding-a-mirror-up-to-peoples-prejudices-or-is-it-just-a-man-acting-ludicrously ersatz Kasakh character Borat.  This time he’s got a daughter character on board, as his own mug’s too famous to quite get away with what he used to.  I have a sneaking suspicion that they rushed the release of this after managing to capture footage of Trump’s lawyer Rudy…

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        Gran Torino

        Clint Eastwood playing a hard-as-nails veteran/former assembly line worker living in suburban Detroit, as well as directing the film (prior to his penchant for speaking to furniture developed).  Richly acted and though predictable also wins you over in the same way the Vietnamese family slowly, reluctantly win him over.  Still lands as a powerful film…

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          2012

          TOTALLY didn’t recognise Amanda Peet in this.  As Liz puts it, “The disaster movie that has EVERYTHING” (“everything” being fire, tidal waves, magnetic inversion, ice, etc).  Spoiler alert – they make it.  And they find “new land” in Africa.  So I bet they felt like complete pricks turning up with giraffes in their big boat…

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            Swinging Safari

            Unbelievably recognisable pastiche of 70s suburban Australia, while at the same time an insane, bubbly romp. I thought it was weird to shoe horn the “exploding whale” trope in there, but it worked and was able to deliver some newsreader-wearing-jacket-and-tie-and-speedos moments. Minogue & Pearce did an admirable job and kept the Neighbours cast’s end up…

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