I was drawn back to a rewatch of this following hearing Lucy Prebble on the ALWAYS EXCELLENT Rule of Three podcast – and though visibly an artefact of its time, I thought it was an incredibly well put together film.
Hari Kondabolu: Warn Your Relatives
I mainly watched this to have a chance to see Hari Kondabolu in action after hearing him so many time on The Bugle.
Plus One
A wedding-table-comedy which I was sure I’d already seen before, but didn’t recognise any of the details. Jack Quaid from off of The Boys inadvertantly ends up in pact with his laddish behaving mate about them taking each other as
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Baron-Cohen strikes again with his is-it-holding-a-mirror-up-to-peoples-prejudices-or-is-it-just-a-man-acting-ludicrously ersatz Kasakh character Borat. This time he’s got a daughter character on board, as his own mug’s too famous to quite get away with what he used to. I have a sneaking suspicion that
The Brothers Grimsby
This is possibly cinema’s new low-point. I’m weirdly defensive of the work of Sacha Baron Cohen, believing him to be a far more intelligent social commentator and exposer of peoples’ prejudices than a perfunctory skim of his work would suggest…
The Hangover Part III
Nope, they fucked it. Typical mistake where you make a film following a colourful side-character too much. Jokes/silly situations were on-par with the first 2 films, but the bones of the story didn’t allow for any kind of sense of
The Hangover Part II
Nice trilogy progression – take a bunch of dickheads with a propensity for getting blackout drunk, and instead of setting them loose in Vegas, take them to Thailand. A fun ratcheting-up of the silliness of the first film, and certainly
The Hangover
Ever watch a film expecting it to be stupid, and realise JUST how much you underestimated it? I had no idea this film would be THIS stupid – and it now makes sense why it turned into a trilogy. For
Swinging Safari
Unbelievably recognisable pastiche of 70s suburban Australia, while at the same time an insane, bubbly romp. I thought it was weird to shoe horn the “exploding whale” trope in there, but it worked and was able to deliver some newsreader-wearing-jacket-and-tie-and-speedos
Table 19
A wedding-table-comedy which I was sure I’d already seen before, but didn’t recognise any of the details. Another vehicle for the range and depth of Anna Kendrick, set in the thoroughly plausible situation where she’s attending a wedding that she