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Genuinely ridiculous family Christmas caper with Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito in the leads. The story beats are basically staked into the ground the instant DeVito moves in, but I thought it was executed with good cheer and certainly wasn’t any worse than any Christmas movie I’ve seen in recent years.
I’m all for an apocalyptic nightmare, and this bit featured some particularly strong facets – however what DOES leave my cheese out in the wind is this modern predilection for stories that don’t really have a conclusion. Less a story, and more of a series of things happening.
Enjoyable piece centering around the relative shoe minnow Nike’s campaign to woo Michael Jordan as their figurehead basketball star. I love watching Affleck/Damon at work, with their easy friendship stretching back decades – and the addition of Jason Bateman was a wonderful extra bit of seasoning. Couldn’t help but notice though how for what was…
Yes siree, the stories get stupider and the fights get longer – and in this case the film doesn’t weigh in much short of 3 hours. It’s all the quasi-balletic yet ruthlessly efficient John Wick vs. endless legions of bad guys again, set up in the typical assortment of set pieces. Final battle sequences made…
Cinematic presentation of the 1970’s seminal Judy Blume book about coming of age, religious freedom and bodily autonomy: and I only agreed to go to this because I was thinking of a totally different story when asked. In hindsight, nobody’s going to remake 1977’s “Oh, God!” – who the hell would you cast in the…
File this as one not to attempt on a long-haul flight when the sleep deprivation’s kicking in. Starts pretty off-kilter. Progresses along familiar yet unpredictable lines, and then – as far as I’m concerned – takes a huge leap into WTF territory. If nothing else, this is worth a watch to see something outside of…
How this ever got described as a comedy is a bit of a mystery – but whatever the genre I found it a compelling (if absurd) watch. Having read nothing in advance about it, I really enjoyed the ongoing jaw-drops as the plot developed. And, VERY absurdly, this was the 3rd media property I’d consumed…
Good choice of film for in-flight watching, cos it translates well to the seatback screen. Pretty bleak stuff but very emotional and well-told. It’s incredibly fortunate that Brendan Fraser was cast (as he does a stellar job) rather than an earlier choice of James Corden. And I thought it was very coincidental that Hong Chau…
You’d think taking the story of The Judgement of Paris (the 1976 blind wine tasting where California beat France) and putting Alan Rickman in one of the key seats alongside Bill Pullman would be an instant classic – but this was a masterclass in squandering some great cloth. It’s like the note was, “Hey Alan…
In summary this sounded like a fairly hapless teen-rock journey to confidence type story, so during the opening credits I was a bit surprised to see the monikers of Weiss & Benioff (of Game of Thrones fame). Don’t remember much about it other than battle of the bands… metal band… errm… nerds? Yeah, probs not…