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The one obvious exception to my antipathy towards the comic book superhero genre – the wisecracking, convention-busting maniac in the red spandex. And it’s also really, really dark in parts. But the good news is that the sequel’s on par with the original film. Not the hero we need, but the hero we deserve. 👍👍
I think Bridget Christie’s wonderful, and ridiculous – and this was the first full show of hers I’d ever seen, outside of the circuit piece she used to do dressed as an ant. Excellent feminist material without – I think – pandering to women only, or too much man-bashing. Intelligent and enjoyable stuff. More! 👍
(Is it a bad sign that I had to google this to remember what it was?) If anyone else was to float me the concept of seeing a comedy about head injuries & body positivity I’d probably make you a directional recommendation, however the ace in the hole here is the lead role being played…
I should really stop watching Pixar films… although this was an unintentional watching as a friend’s kid had it on telly on a Sunday morning as we were getting ourselves moving for the day. I guess by necessity a company that big in the entertainment scene HAS to do this – but it always disappoints…
Fascinating documentary into the life of possibly the most comic-book figure of the 80s: pro wrestler and actor Andre Roussimoff, “The Giant”. Getting a look behind the curtain at the lives of wrestlers is always fairly abnormal topic matter, but this was magnified (in many respects) in the case of this 7-foot-and-then-some Frenchman. Re-watching footage…
Engaging if sometimes historically questionable biographic drama about the life of Alan Turing and his time working at Bletchley Park cracking the ENIGMA code as used by the Germans in WW2. 👍👍
Biographical drama recreating one of the flights from the September 11 terrorist attack, notable in that it used little-known actors and not Tom Hanks. Oddly compelling given that you already knew the outcome, and equally hard to fathom the fragmentation of information flow between emergency services in such a scenario… one assumes that in an…
Oh god, this is that one where the hypercompetitive careerwoman gets pissed and ends up on a honeymoon cruise with her estranged father, isn’t it… You can pretty much guess the rest from there. I think we watched this because it had Kristen Bell in the lead, and it really makes you wonder what the…
Should’ve been called “The Internshit”. Charmless hack where a couple of sales veterans stumble into a Google internship competition and struggle along, occasionally getting payoff from their balls-out bullshitting ways over the introverted nerdiness of their colleagues. Predictable rubbish with any redemption arcs in the script being overshadowed by the fact they’re both complete pricks….
We chose this totally at random off Netflix without having heard or read anything about it, purely on the strength of it having Frances McDormand in the lead role. Captivating film with some great performances, in a sort of Coen-esque story replete with moral ambiguity and people doing the best they could under the circumstances….