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The thing with a film property based on characters from Greek mythology is that it seems absurd to cluck “Well that’s just RIDICULOUS”. However even the central plot vacuum wasn’t enough to detail this Dwayne-In-A-Wig epic. And don’t be misled into thinking the trailer accurately portrays the film, cos it doesn’t.
A wedding-table-comedy which I was sure I’d already seen before, but didn’t recognise any of the details. Another vehicle for the range and depth of Anna Kendrick, set in the thoroughly plausible situation where she’s attending a wedding that she was matron-of-honour for 2 up til 2 months’ previous, but was then demoted to the…
Proper deep 80’s dive into feminist empowerment led by the amazing Fonda/Tomlin team so beloved of us in Grace & Frankie, and teamed up with the one & only Dolly Parton. Ridiculous, amazing, absurd and important – in 2020 we can’t imagine the world this was set in, and yet at the same time so…
So, the goal of watching “a shit film” doesn’t alway pan out, and in this case seeing a cast list with the names “Nicholson / DiCaprio / Damon” in it meant no further searching was needed. Unfortunately for me, I have a genuine problem telling DiCaprio and Damon apart – no idea why. Still, a…
There’s something bloody compelling about the way Davies tells a story. And despite basically knowing exactly what you’re going to get, it’s impossible to tear yourself away from his roll-call of tales. 👍
We watched this on the strength of the involvement of The Rock, and were you to use the relative size of the characters’ faces on the poster as an indication of their importance/screentime in the film you’d have at least expected him to feature as much as mouldering CG-when-it-suits-him creepy ancient dead dude Imhotep. However…
We weren’t really paying attention in this – it’s got The Rock, but he’s playing a sort-of-bad-guy (as you’re constantly reminded by the prosthetic scars) on a revenge mission: it makes a tilt at moral ambiguity but you never really get there, and in the end I think we only let it finish because we…
I just don’t understand how a story like this gets a 2-hour film – it’s typical “You just gotta believe in yourself, and you’ll see that what you’ve wanted was in front of you all along” stuff, with what I felt were problematic portrayals of Icelandic people by Hollywood actors. I guess I don’t understand…
Surprisingly emotional/dramatic piece for a cast of this pedigree (Bateman, Fey, Fonda, Driver, Byrne) with not quite enough comedy to push it out of being a drama. Enjoyable enough but pretty middle-of-the-road.
No, we’re NOT obsessed with The Rock. We can stop watching his films any time we want… no, YOU’RE crying. etc. So, this one’s BASED ON A TRUE STORY (credible), where an ex-marine goes back to his hometown but doesn’t wanna get involved in the shenanigans at the casino, gets himself elected sheriff following a…