You are here.
Conflicting. I didn’t hate it as much as the previous instalment in this “trilogy” (in which the parts bear little to no resemblance to each other stylistically or in storyline), but at the same time the whole arc of what’s now a 9-film compendium’s supposed to rest on a plot development which they’ve CLEARLY just…
Excellent portrayal of one side of the Megyn Kelly / Gretchen Carlson / Roger Ailes / Fox News situation, which we’d become familiar with through The Loudest Voice. As with any biopic dramas like this, it’s necessarily a point of view on a telling of an event, but it was superbly acted and really great…
I didn’t write anything about this at the time I watched it, and now have no recollection of it whatsoever. I assume I was talked into it due to the presence of Kristen Bell.
Occasionally paging through film descriptions on a streaming service one will pop up which you’d never have pictured yourself as being interested in or even having heard about, but seems like it’d make an interesting watch – and this was the case with this Daniel Radcliffe film about an FBI agent sent to work undercover…
We watched this 1988 classic following Liz’s watching of girl-powered remake “The Hustle” on the flight from Sri Lanka, and I got a bit caught up in describing how much I loved “the original” with Steve Martin & Michael Caine… not realising that DRS is a remake of a 1964 Brando/Niven film called “Bedtime Story”. …
Vigilante one-man-weapon film that’s a one-woman-weapon film starring Jennifer Garner. I really enjoyed this, although it was very interesting to me how much my brain kept wrestling with the concept that she’d gone from Ordinary Mom in act one of the film to “five years later” in act two being a relentless tooled-up killing machine…
I guess I’ve come to regard John Wick films as the really-violent-film equivalent of opera: there’s not usually much to the story, but the dressing is incredibly rich, and the quality & artistry’s all in the fight sequences. There’s a bit of a false start at the beginning (for me, at least) in the sequence…
The Acting Range of Anna Kendrick heads up this oddball piece alongside Sam Rockwell, in which Rockwell plays a hitman with what can only be described as a fairly unconventional business model, and a very non-standard romcom situation comes into being. Total poppycock, of course – but I thought it was well-executed and enjoyed it…