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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…
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…
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…
This is possibly cinema’s new low-point. I’m weirdly defensive of the work of Sacha Baron Cohen, believing him to be a far more intelligent social commentator and exposer of peoples’ prejudices than a perfunctory skim of his work would suggest… however this was just bollocks. Why Mark Strong would agree to a film like this…
Nope, they fucked it. Typical mistake where you make a film following a colourful side-character too much. Jokes/silly situations were on-par with the first 2 films, but the bones of the story didn’t allow for any kind of sense of endearment to the plight of any of the personae – mainly leaving you with the…
Nice trilogy progression – take a bunch of dickheads with a propensity for getting blackout drunk, and instead of setting them loose in Vegas, take them to Thailand. A fun ratcheting-up of the silliness of the first film, and certainly answers the questions “Well, where could they go from here?”. 👍
OH MY GOD. This turd of a film was the sequel that nobody needed. Like millions of people, I was captivated by Ang Lee’s 2000 martial arts masterpiece, and so held disproportionately high hopes for this film… albeit with a skeptical eye, based on the fact I’d never heard anyone talk about it. I’m going…
Ever watch a film expecting it to be stupid, and realise JUST how much you underestimated it? I had no idea this film would be THIS stupid – and it now makes sense why it turned into a trilogy. For some reason I thought Bradley Cooper brought a sense of gravitas to his role, which…
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…
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…