Movies
OSS 117: From Africa with Love
I’ve been a fan of Jean DuJardin’s OSS117 films since seeing “Lost in Rio” in 2010 with Hannah & Paul, and it’s been a bit of a hard sell to bring other people on this ride with me… but me ol’ chum Wazza the Irish fella (who speaks French and lives in I think Portugal?)…
L.A. Confidential
A product of one of my occasional whims to watch something on Netflix that has a 7.0-or-higher IMDB score (if only to stem the incessant flow of shite), and I realised I’d never seen this! GREAT cast working a multi-layered story of 1950s police racketeering amid sleazy LA. How in the hell did I miss…
Luckiest Girl Alive
Powerful film, sure – but totally not what the trailers led us to believe this film was going to be about. It is important to tell stories about (in this case) privileged white guys being confronted about not taking ownership/responsibility for their actions regarding sexual assault/rape. Could’ve done with more of a headsup that that’s…
Ticket to Paradise
Christ, what a turd this was. Warring divorced parents conspire to ruin high-achieving daughter’s wedding to Balinese seaweed farmer, and learn about love on the way & end up together. To think we paid money in a cinema to watch this shite. 👎👎
Ready Player One
For a futuristic virtual-world story this one came off as quite fresh & original – I wonder if any of the cracks in the story were papered over by the legion of little pop-culture references buried (and more overtly placed) throughout? I remain baffled as to how in the hell they got Mark Rylance involved…
Top Gun: Maverick
Bit of a pantomime, wasn’t it? There was something fundamentally weird about the idea of Tom Cruise (a 60 year old) playing football on a beach with a bunch of 20-somethings, and out-flying them, better-withstanding physical endurance, having better eyesight, AND also witnessing him rekindling a relationship with someone at least closer to his own…
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Digital restoration release on the big screen – another chance to revisit a film of childhood in definition far greater than I’d ever seen, and in this case than the film producers had probably ever intended. I’d forgotten about how fractious the whole Star Trek film franchise was following the polished high-budget turd that the…