I’d feel a lot better/smugger about having engaged with this – purportedly, the greatest film ever made – if I’d managed to stay awake for more of it. Hey ho, that’s newborn-induced sleep deprivation for you… It’s not exactly The
Delicatessen
WHY would any sensible person tackle a Gilliam-esque French semi-surreal film when affected by sleep deprivation!? That said, I loved it! The quirkiness called to mind Amelie – and then a big facepalm as I read in Wikipedia that it
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
Underworld: Evolution
Now, watching this came about by accident cos I thought Netflix had restarted Underworld, whereas I knew I had 40 mins til the end. So I pressed play, fast-forwarded through to the -40m mark, and then rewound back through again
Underworld
Nice bit of fairly mindless vampire action nonsense here, with a suitably arcane backstory – albeit somewhat odd to think of Bill Nighy as an ancient vampiric lord once you’ve seen About Time. I think my subconscious interest in this
Escape from New York
Feels like I kinda took this one on face value really: probably a casualty of trying to watch late at night on newborn/sleep dep conditions. To get the most out of this you’d probably have needed to understand what Manhattan
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
Life After Flash
Made the mistake of thinking this’d be interesting… One wonders whether the ppl who put this together did any research before crowdfunding its production: my guess is, they didn’t. It’s largely the fairly sad story of a film hasbeen, trying