Joan Rivers: Don’t Start with Me
Didn’t make it all the way through this one… Really wanted to like it, and I still maintain I think Joan Rivers is amazing – but this really left my cheese out in the wind. 👎
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Katherine Ryan: In Trouble
Katherine Ryan has been on the comedy circuit for probably around 10 years now but I think in the last few has really found her rhythm with her brand of near-deadpan delivery of intellectually justified no-helmet, no-net leaps of comical wrongness. Definitely worth keeping an eye out for her appearances. 👍👍
Office Christmas Party
Box office silliness led by Jason Bateman’s long-suffering everyman – I was a bit surprised at just *how* ridiculous the plot of this would get, although it seemed proportionate given the presence of TJ Miller, playing… well, TJ Miller. 👍
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
I’ll admit to being a sucker for anything with the Coens’ imprimatur on, and this was a deliciously quirky if somewhat oddly formatted piece. Can’t say that all 6 of the short stories really grabbed me, and in fact having established the format with the despatch of the titular Scruggs, I found myself wanting to…
Olympus Has Fallen
Having watched London Has Fallen, we figured it made sense to then watch the film that it was a sequel to. Much like its postcessor (*shrugs* could be a word?), it stars loads of things being blown up, and Gerard Butler. GO USA! Just, y’know, try to ignore the total frigging implausibility of how they…
London Has Fallen
Mindless action thriller starring loads of buildings in London being blown up, and Gerard Butler. Widely panned as being “effortlessly racist”, but I’d contend that cinema’s so full of 2-dimensional plotlines and villains that anyone who correlated this with real life in any way possibly hasn’t engaged their faculties properly. Not that one wants engaged…
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Utter irredeemable faeces. Nobody needed to make this film. 👎👎
How to Be Single
I think we ought to chalk this one up to “Jason trying new things”. And gloss over the fact that it turned out I’d seen it before. Kind of like a Love Actually for millennials… except in this one not everyone’s white. 👎
Bohemian Rhapsody
Probably the film of 2018 that got the most people talking – though a necessarily whitewashed version of the truth of it, it was a nonetheless engaging biopic about the formation and career of Queen, centred on the life of Freddie Mercury. The soundtrack has been on high rotation ’round ours of late, although it’s…
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Another Star Wars film, another excuse for me to grumble about why they’re nowhere near as good as they used to be. This one’s the backstory about what made Han Solo into who he was, and as with all of these is packed with “Chubby, Hmm” moments* – I really wish they’d focus on just…