The Best of Victor Borge: Act I & II

Wonderfully silly Danish piano-playing legend, bordering on racist in that innocent “he’s from a different generation” way; silly wordplay, silly pianowork, silly interactions with other musicians. In a way watching this was pointless because I think I knew 80% of

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

A gang of tropes wind up at a rich person’s home to be tormented and in the mix (IS he there by mistake, or not?!) is Daniel Craig channelling the chicken lawyer from Futurama to solve it all at the

Deadpool 2

It was a long night – but once you rewatch Deadpool it’s foolish not to play on. Not sure if the streamed version of this was different to the last one I watched, or whether my recollections differ due to

Deadpool

Rewatched this purely because I don’t sleep any more and have an infant to supervise. Deadpool continues to be the only Marvel property I give a monkey’s about.  Just a sweary, sarcastic joy to behold.

The Producers

In the wee small feeding hours it suddenly hit me that I hadn’t seen the original film, only the (smash hit) musical. Zero Mostel is a conundrum of charisma: seemingly having none whatsoever, but having LOADS at the same time.

The Lavender Hill Mob

Once I’d gotten past the eeriness of a younger Alec Guinness being very reminiscent of the face of Kevin Spacey, I really enjoyed this little larcenous romp. Also deligthed to recognise the bloke from My Fair Lady as well (although

The Sting

This was a film I was convinced I’d watched loads of times, but gave it another watch because I tried REALLY hard to remember what it was about, and couldn’t. It later occurred to me that I never actually watched

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

I know that Domhnall Gleeson is a fine actor – I just can’t get past the fact that he looks like he’s 14 years old half the time. Don’t get me wrong – he gave a lovely Henry Beard (perpetually

Evil Dead II

What the hell do you say about this masterpiece? It’s been a while since I watched this, having latterly fallen more under the thrall of Ash vs the Evil Dead – what struck me was how much Ash has taken

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

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