The Night Before

Utterly ridiculous Christmas film where 3 dickheads action a pact and try to find the most amazing party of the year, parallelled by an “A Christmas Carol”-style subplot, and – surprise, surprise – Seth Rogen getting absolutely off his tits

Tag

Based on a true story, about a group of lads who started playing a game of tag as young’uns, and for one month a year continued it into their later years.  I suspect the actual game/true story was a lot

Silver Linings Playbook

It’s been a while since I saw a film this genre-ambiguous. Seemingly a comedy lining up Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro & Jackie Weaver in the prime roles, Jennifer Lawrence tangents in and all of a sudden the film switches orbits,

The Other Guys

How in the hell had I not heard of this before? Adam McKay directing Will Ferrell and an excellent ensemble with all the trademark stupidity of situation and dialogue. Inane, and wonderful. 👍👍

Charlie Brooker – Death to 2020

Clearly a different style of show to his “wipes”, but at the same time essentially and necessarily similar – so it’s impossible not to invite comparison.  Some pretty good stuff in here, albeit with a much slower pace than I’d

Central Intelligence

Oddball buddy setup with Kevin Hart (former highschool sports hero who became an accountant) and Dwayne Johnson (former overweight dweeb who became The Rock, and works for the CIA).  I love a film that barefacedly walks in to a stupid

Zombieland: Double Tap

I couldn’t BELIEVE that the original Zombieland film was 10 years old – hell of a long wait for a seemingly inconsequential sequel, and while it’s true this film isn’t going to change lives, it IS a wonderful & fun

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

MASTERPIECE. Liz was convinced we’d already seen this, but as it didn’t appear in my Media Roundups anywhere it’s clear that there’s NO WAY I could have already seen it.  Even despite how familiar lots of bits in it were. 

Miss Congeniality

Can’t believe I hadn’t seen this – and I think it unlocked a bit more of an understanding for me about why people are so interested in Sandra Bullock.  I’d always found her a bit beige as an actor, however

Happiest Season

Fairly standard “girl takes partner home to parents for Christmas” story with subterfuge because parents will disapprove, notable chiefly because the protagonists are a lesbian couple. I think a reasonably admirable cast, in search of a better storyline.  Definitely a

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