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Standard awesome Dwayne Johnson fare – set in a 130+ storey high bleeding-edge-tech building, the titular “skyscraper” – and just for shits & giggles Johnson’s character has an artificial leg. Which, y’know, I’m sure was a centrepiece of the original screenplay.
Throwback to the late-90s with this one, which when asked I realised I’d never actually seen! It’s funny how your enjoyment of a film becomes harder in an objective sense when so many cultural tropes are derived from it… and then there’s the whole Kevin Smith connection (which had me thinking “Applesauce, bitch!” for most…
Middle-aged mother joins her daughter at college story with Melissa McCarthy in the Rodney Dangerfield seat… plenty of silliness and a cast that’s obviously having a great time, but you wondered if they bothered writing a script for half of it. Weird to see McCarthy and Maya Rudolph in the middle-aged-moms roles when just 9…
When someone bases a film on the giant-mutant-gorilla/lizard/wolf-centred video game which the designers famously described as “a game that there was really no wrong way to play”, this is exactly what you end up with. Granted, the film had much more plot than the game. So whilst Dwayne Johnson makes the experience a relaxed and…
Did I already mention the weekend movie hierarchy around here? Typically if we’re not watching one of the Tv series we go through, next request will be “Let’s watch a shit movie!”, so it’s either romcoms or disaster films, or ANYTHING starring The Rock. This film was a magnificent exponent of the third category. SO…
Dramatisation of the whistleblowing & prosecution of GCHQ translator Katharine Gun who leaked a US communique to GCHQ instructing them to falsify a case for going to war in Iraq in 2003. Decent performances albeit seemingly heavyhanded dramatisation in places, leading one to wonder how much licence was taken and whether in real life the…
Confusing and ultimately shit romcom, luring us in with the participation of Dinesh from Silicon Valley. Genuinely made me question what it is that people settle for in a film in this day and age.
Ever find yourself sitting up late & alone watching a documentary about Silvio Berlusconi? I guess I was hoping to learn how/WHY he persisted in office for so long, but got wildly turned off the topic by seeing how much of an egomaniac the bloke is. “Here’s my office, which is mainly full of tributes…
The Miss World pageant in 1970 was a groundbreaking focal point for womens’ rights & equality, conflating a simultaneous uprising of the Womens’ Liberation movement with the pageant’s recognition of non-white contestants, all against a depressingly sexist cultural backdrop which while easy to imagine possible, was pretty unsettling. Reasonably told if somewhat prone to caricature,…
I remember this being a documentary focussing on the against-the-odds story of Kevin Clash, following his dream to become a puppeteer and working with Jim Henson – and creating/inhabiting the internationally famous Elmo character. Whilst I’m mildly obsessed with the Muppets and with Jim Henson, Elmo really gives me the shits, and I couldn’t get…