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Starting as a fairly fun social climb tracking the inner machinations of Queen Anne’s rule this piece develops into a manipulative and then dark drama on trust, vulnerability, love and power. It’s a film that’ll mainly be remembered for the disturbing/inconclusive ending, and providing a signature bit of avant-garde weirdness for the director to peg…
Total 90s cornerstone, this. Was it the last time Dan Aykroyd played a character in a film that wasn’t just Dan Aykroyd? The thing that struck me most on this watch (other than the visible 90sisms which at the time seemed like perfectly normal life) was the apparent ease with which Cusack would declare “I…
“Famous with the mask on” – the thread here is around actors in small roles in the Star Wars trilogy. We know their lines; they’re iconic. But unlike the marquee’d players, we know nothing about them. But, remembering that this was a film shot in the late 70s in England – prior documentary experience teaches…
Turns out the world needed another Batman movie. Who knew. This time it’s (naturally) a bit grittier than the previous ones. I enjoyed the home-grown sensibility of some of the costumes & gear, and there’s little point in focusing on which bits seemed contrived given that THE WHOLE THING IS MASSIVELY CONTRIVED. Bad guy The…
We REALLY need to stop watching films just because they’ve got The Rock in them. Well, no, that’s not true. At least he didn’t get a khaki shirt on and stand around looking pissed off in a jungle in this one. And I probably woulda watched it anyway after learning it had Julie Andrews in…
What a great little film! Although it’s pretty easy to see why it sat on top of a screenplay blacklist for years (getting made only when Taika Waititi became one of the hottest properties in Hollywood). A delightful piece about the importance of not following the crowd, told through a pretty harrowing and at the…
Nowhere near as bad as people might have you believe. Nostalgia’s a funny thing, though. Seeing a film make a nod to a TV show or film series seems reasonable, but seeing a slightly self-indulgent film making a nod to a single earlier film… maybe that’s not it/why. Not awful, but fine. Although I don’t…
Talk about having your expectations blown away. On first blush this seemed like an unnecessary reboot of a beloved 80s comedy property. And then Holiday Road fired up to herald the opening credits, and you think “Could they, though?”. And I, for one, think they did. Totally stupid from one end to the other, and…
I’ll confess to only having seen about 40% of this, through a combination of drifting in & out of sleep on a flight, and being interrupted by the flight having to land. It seemed like a lot of fun though – combining a story from my childhood (including some tangible memories of certain sections of…
This film features opportunities for The Rock to stand in a jungle looking pissed off wearing a khaki shirt. Plenty-silly treasure caper, which whilst predictable (or at least, trope-heavy) was still a good fun ride. Chalk it up as one of the good ones. It’s no Baywatch though.