Having just listened to Dan Carlin’s EXCELLENT Hardcore History podcast on the battle of Midway, I was very interested to see how it would go with the modern Hollywood treatment. Short answer: skip the film, listen to the podcast. Admittedly the film’s half as long, but the podcast fared for …
The Jesus Bombs, rather. So I’ve been anticipating this character spinoff from The Big Lebowski for AGES now, and Liz being out one night provided the perfect opportunity – and, casting the film’s 4.3 IMDB stars to one side, in I went. If there was ONE takeaway from Pirates Of …
36 hour timeframe and 4 or 5 overlapping stories/lives/interactions set in LA, hinging around racism and frustration. Strong performances and quite a confronting series of issues, really. And fascinating to look at this film made in 2005 through the lens of BLM. I guess we’re not making quite the progress …
What would you call her – an anti-daterape vigilante? Quite a well-assembled if somewhat confronting film centring around the notion that even the niceguys behave like total dicks when they think they can get away with it. Important points to talk/think about? Yeah. Depressing comment on the state of humanity? …
Ben Affleck as former-basketball-superstar turned coach of church high school team. Felt a bit like a by-the-numbers underdog-comes-good tale with a mixture of tragic father figure. I don’t think I’m ever gonna think of this other than “a film I saw”. Made me think a lot more highly of The …
I love a good “girls strike back” film, only it genuinely pisses me off that this kind of female empowerment has to come as a result of guys being complete dicks. Why can’t we have a story where the alpha-jock types are supportive and respectful of women from the get-go? …
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 more fun than this film – but it was fine.
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, resulting in a very odd plot that goes nowhere near …
Rewatch for us of the Megyn Kelly/Gretchen Carlson/Roger Ailes story; chilling stuff, expertly assembled. Makes me feel even worse about Rupert Murdoch having started his empire in Adelaide. O, for a time machine.
Atmospheric World War 1 drama seemingly captured in a single shot (it wasn’t, but it seemed to have been), with a cast that was either great actors or less-great actors whose presence made you think “I bet they were thinking they’d prefer to have [great actor’s name] there”. Co-starred King …
