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Pure wank. I mean, you’ve got the ingredients for a sure-fire winner of a film when you cast Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny, RZA, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, Danny Glover and Tilda Swinton in a small-town zombie flick. But somehow Jim Jarmusch managed to wrestle it into an attempt at a consciously quirky &…
Ever watch a film and watch it go about its twists, turns & machinations, then get to the closing credits and see “Written by Richard Curtis”, and think, “Well THAT makes sense!”? That was very much my reaction on this one, about a bloke who – whilst flying through the air during a bicycle accident…
On the one hand this is a completely superfluous exercise in brand-refreshing, copyright-extending, and merchandise-pumping by the Disney corporation. Good fun though. Will Smith met the challenge of playing a 3D version of Robin Williams’ iconic genie (without ever eclipsing, but at least he didn’t make a total pig of it), and Mena Massoud &…
Being a biopic, it’s “based on a true story” – although the Tolkien Family made a statement saying they did not endorse the making of this film – it follows the developmental life of JRR Tolkien, highlighting the formative years culminating in the leadup to starting to write his books. The climax of the film…
Now we’re talking. Based on a true story. Well, it’s a documentary, so that’s a freebie. This follows the brothers who make up the band Bros who are prepping for their first performance together in 30 years. Apparently the tickets to this gig (in London’s O2) sold out in 7 seconds, which is something of…
Based on a true story. File this one as “chewing gum for the brain” – MIB sequels aren’t exactly cinematic game-changers, but it was a mindless enough romp and something fun to watch on a flight. Couldn’t tell you what happened in it though.
I can’t seem to stop watching things that confirm how screwed up the world is. Although Michael Moore’s known for laying it on nice & thick. This outing sees him looking at the US of A and analysing what happened in the 2016 Presidential election – why & how Trump got voted in, and how…
This documentary centering on Carole Cadwalladr’s journalistic investigations of Cambridge Analytica was quite compelling in its detail diving into how social media data was used to manipulate voters & allowed the company to perfect its near-weaponised data science operations. Thoroughly depressing, really, given that it opens up massive questions about the legality of the Brexit…
The key phrase of the films I watched in 2019 seems to be “based on a true story”. In this case, a Mossad operation to evacuate Ethiopian Jews from Sudan by setting up a cover operation of a holiday resort. The whole thing had a very “Argo” feel about it to me, and as such…
Katherine Ryan is amazing. Confident, assured, fabulous, sarcastic, empowered, affirming, hilarious, brilliant. She’s a comedy assassin, and I wish there were a hundred of her standup specials on Netflix so I could watch them all – over, and over, and over. The headline piece from this special, I reckon, is her trip to see the…