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I’m not sure how we end up watching so many rom coms involving assassins, but my inability to lose myself in an actor’s performance and instead think of their past works had me thinking about Steve Jobs being an assassin. Katherine Heigl is great fun, but this film really didn’t set fire to any arses.
Oh God, this film was mental. At least it wasn’t another forgettable romcom – I don’t think I’ll ever forget this one as long as I live. I don’t really understand if this was intended to be a vehicle for Lauren Lapkus, or what – and at times it was a bit sad, when it…
Having discovered Alice Fraser through The Bugle podcast I was very excited to see one of her standup shows – this wasn’t at all what I expected, but was excellent. It’s a personal piece centring around her Mum, her upbringing, her relationships, and contextualised against her Mum’s journey through Multiple Sclerosis. Fraser seems simultaneously awkward…
Guy Ritchie seemingly signs on all his current cool acting mates for another convoluted extensively-casted crime caper, this time with Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Charlie Hunnam, Matthew McConaughey et al. Hunnam seems unable to deliver anything nuanced (albeit a much better performance than he turned in in King Arthur), but the real treat I thought…
Comedy about a pair of best friends (Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne) drawn into high-business by a third (Salma Hayek) and the conflict & compromise that ensues. This was a film that we watched.
The combination of Dwayne Johnson, the phrase “based on a true story”, and an IMDB rating of 6.4 probably best convey what this tale of a construction company owner going undercover to free his wrongfully imprisoned son is going to deliver. Severely fails the “Yeah, but you wouldn’t, would you?” test.
A wedding-table-comedy which I was sure I’d already seen before, but didn’t recognise any of the details. I know actors work on different jobs, but I was surprised that Olivia Munn was in this turkey, as I was used to her character in The Newsroom. Cognitive dissonance, I guess. Tim Key managed a handy turn…
BASED ON A TRUE STORY tale of strippers who band together to fleece Wall Street types, in which nobody comes off particularly well. I think I was fine with it when it was just the strippers taking advantage of the city boys “conventionally”, but when they pivoted to their “business idea” & brought in other…
A wonderful whisky documentary led by writer and legend Dave Broom, exploring whisky’s history and relevance against the backdrop of Scotland. It’s hard not to be so massively biased when confronted with so many of one’s friends in a documentary, but I thought it did a wonderful job of avoiding cliche and talking around the…
It’s weird, isn’t it? 2001’s Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back was a self-indulgent, self-serving, self-referential piece of shit film – and yet it remains one of my favourite classic bits of nonsense. The Jay & Silent Bob Reboot was a self-indulgent, self-serving, self-referential piece of shit and I just wish there had been someone…