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I remember THIS one! You’ve got to love any story about WWE wrestling whose promotional spiel includes the sentence “Based on a true story”. And it’s got Nick Frost & Lena Headey playing a husband & wife. AND The Rock is in it. AND it’s written/directed by Stephen Merchant. AND the official genre description is…
This one was quite good – we were mainly attracted to it due to the presence of Dominic West, who’s always first & foremost going to be Jimmy McNulty for us, and therefore hearing him speak in any accent other than Baltimore is a non-sequitur (even though that’s not his real accent). Quite well-told story…
Evidently this was released in the UK under a different title – I recall this rather stunningly cast film not really having much effect other than being YET ANOTHER thing on in the background as the time passes. Alison Janney’s always great, and in this she plays a Principal where a school day kicks off…
Good lord, I really have to write these little summaries as I go rather than retrospectively, cos I’ve no memory of this film either. Maybe it’s a comment on watching too much stuff? I vaguely recall seeing Banderas and Patinkin in a film, but other than that the writeup rings no bells at all.
A fairly “by numbers” piece in which a misanthropic wheelchair-bound millionaire contrarily hires a parolee-jobseeker who’s walked into the wrong room, and through their time together each learns a lot about themselves, etc. Decent performances from Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, and a waspy Nicole Kidman – but it’s a plumbing together of stereotypes with barefaced…
Netflix, IMHO, has done a great thing by sinking a load of money into developing standup specials – providing increased access to them for all, and removing the need to litter the landscape with single-watch DVD copies that haven’t made it off the shelves of charity shops around the land. In Jimmy Carr’s show you…
This was an interesting one – it’s a documentary about the insidious and conspiratorial nature of the inner upper echelons of Scientology, but a lot of it seemed to mirror the plot of any TV series you watch that features personality-cult religions, which I guess ought to have highlighted how well-researched TV series are nowadays,…
Female heist caper modelled after the other “Ocean’s” films, and bloody good fun it was too. Great cast brimming with personality and culminating in a self-supporting film that didn’t feel like a “girl version of”. Then again, I’d buy a DVD of Anne Hathaway reading weather reports. She’s amazing. Good enough to overcome another 2-dimensional…
One of the problems with waiting til the end of the year to retrospectively write reviews of all of the crap you’ve watched over the year is that sometimes there are things you’ve no memory of whatsoever. This is one of those. I can see it’s got Anna Kendrick in it (and her enormous acting…
Dramatisation of one aspect of the Brexit “Leave” campaign, focussing on a tonsured Bandersnatch Phantybatch as charming person Dominic Cummings – it didn’t get great reviews in the press, but then we’ve had enough of experts, apparently. Whilst it was never going to capture “the truth” of it, I think it was a reasonable watch…