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Y’know what Jack Burton always says on a dark & stormy night, with the wind howling and the pillars of heaven shaking? Timeless classic that has all the ingredients of AWESOME. Why people even bothered making more films after this came out is completely beyond me. 👍👍
Long on pedigree (Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson, James L. Brooks) but short on everything else – totally implausible rom-com where Witherspoon plays an apparently national-level professional sports athlete, but doesn’t seem to demonstrate any agency over her romantic life. How Do You Know? Well, the fact it’s a 2 hour long rom-com should’ve…
Victorian tale of balloonists pushing the boundaries of science & learning a lot about life and each other suspended in a tiny basket tens of thousands of feet above London. PROPERLY gave me the willies, if only due to the lack of safety equipment.
Sweet Woody Allen comedy about a writer in Paris with his fiancee, their divergent dreams, and his increased understanding of his dreams based on an unlikely situation involving travelling back in time to the 1920s to find himself hanging out with F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and so on. Owen Wilson…
Bafflingly strong cast for what’s otherwise a “by numbers” movie without much of a point. I think the takeaways for me were that the human race can be real dicks when things get tough out there, that Jude Law in a plastic bubble looks like a *real* git, and more than anything, that there are…
Follow-the-mark documentary piece (original title before Netflix got to it: “Lemmy: 49% Motherfucker, 51% Son Of A Bitch”) about Lemmy Kilmister, rock legend of Motorhead. I don’t know that I came out of it with *much* of an improved understanding of the man, but more a deeper insight into the fact that he was definitely…
Dramatisation of entertainment playboy & lightweight David Frost’s campaign to bring attention to himself for interviewing disgraced former President, Richard Nixon – majestically performed by Michael Sheen and Frank Langella. Wonderful piece of cinema, in that the performances capture the building and changing of the relationship between the two men, and the complexity of the…
3rd instalment in the “… Has Fallen” franchise, starring Gerard Butler (in this case, looking more like Russell Crowe). Really ought to have called this “Standards Have Fallen”. Liz fell asleep, and I can’t see her dialling back in to catch the bits she missed. Apart from a pretty kickass drone strike sequence to open,…
Female-led remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, featuring Anne Hathaway in the Michael Caine role and Rebel Wilson in Steve Martin’s shoes – the tale of the con artistes in the riviera town of Beaumont-sur-Mer. Whilst a perennially fun romp one very quickly gets the impression that director Chris Addison’s brief was “make Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”….