**_Rebels needing a cause vs. SWAT police in Jet City_**
I never knew there was a battle in Seattle and learned that the ‘battle’ refers to the protests that halted the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in Seattle from Nov 30 to Dec 3. Not being a fan of the typical ‘protestor’ who annoyingly blocks traffic, I put off seeing this docudrama; the fact that it bombed at the box office didn’t help.
However, it works by informing you of the WTO with further details at the climax concerning the near future, not to mention writer/director Stuart Townsend seamlessly interspliced…
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Added to the list of movies I wish I never watched. Not entertaining and writing was horrible. Sometimes I wonder how these types of movies even get made, but do not recommend watching this movie unless you are a family member of someone unfortunate to be casted in it.…
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Luckily it isn’t actually five more nights at home with the pizza loving bear, but it still felt like it took an age to get to a conclusion that you could have seen from space. “Abby” (Piper Rubio) is missing her now defunct animatronic friends whilst elder brother “Mike” (Josh Hutcherson) is having one of those will they/won’t they dalliances with “Vanessa” (Elizabeth Lail). It’s while this latter pair are on a particularly awkward date that she sneaks out and visits the surprisingly accessible derelict old amusement park, where she sits and pines for her lost pals. It seems, though, that the…
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Pugilistic priest “Fr. Jud” (Josh O’Connor) has lost his temper with a deacon and been consigned to a remote country parish where his plain-speaking bishop (Jeffrey Wright) hopes he can do less damage. Upon his arrival, though, he realises that this is quite an eccentric little congregation led by the mildly megalomaniacal “Monsignor” (Josh Brolin) and his ever so slightly menacing factotum “Martha” (Glenn Close). The new arrival isn’t universally welcome, especially when he tries to impose his own more religious approach to parish affairs, and then somewhat out of the blue, the older churchma…
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I must admit that I’d entirely forgotten about “Sisu” (2022) until I sat down to watch this, and then it all came flooding back. Maybe that is because this isn’t so very different. He (Jorma Tommila) has returned from his native Finland to his former home in what is now Soviet occupied Karelia to collect it. Yep, he is going to dismantle the wooden home he built for his murdered family and relocate it across the border. The Soviets still remember the carnage he caused last time around, and so release his erstwhile tormentor “Dragunov” (Stephen Lang) from a gulag with instructions to terminate …
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Now we’re not given too much of a preamble here, suffice to say that we arrive at an hilltop bunker where eight lads ranging from late teens to only just lost their baby teeth are holding two hostages. One is an American doctor (Julianne Nicholson) and the other is a milk cow. Amidst all their guns, machetes and grenades these men know that it’s the beast that will explode loudest of it isn’t milked regularly and so they are ordered by their diminutive leader, the “Messenger” (Wilson Salazar) to take extra special care of it. Thing is, though, they’ve some booze and high spirits to help allevi…
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I’m always surprised that given the huge breadth of stories from Egypt’s pantheon and it’s history, that so few films have ever - Jack Hawkins and Victor Mature, notwithstanding - been made for mainstream cinema. This one from Pole Jerzy Kawalerowicz tells the story of the fictitious Prince “Ramses” (Jerzy Zelnik) as he strives for his ailing Pharaoh father’s approval in the face of hostility from the High Priest “Herhor” (Piotr Pawlowski) and those who would ensure the king ruled in name only. With precious few soldiers, the young prince is fully aware that their borders are unsecured and wit…
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I liked Dhurandhar.
It's not phenomenal or so, but definitely not a lot to complain about. It is a testosterone trip to an extent, but I'm not complaining. Those who are complaining are not really the target audience, it seems.
Towards the end, there are some risky bets and plot armour, but it's a film, not a documentary. It could have benefited from a somewhat better runtime. 3.5 hrs is long. It dials up the violence meter for mainstream Bollywood, but nothing too shocking and not too much of it either.
Ranveer is actually more vulnerable, more grounded, except when he's not. Then he…
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To paraphrase one of the Caped Crusader’s most articulate but menacing foes, “When is a movie not a movie?” The answer: “When it should be a TV series instead.” And that, unfortunately, is the inherent problem with this latest offering from legendary film and television writer-director-producer James L. Brooks. Set during the 2008 financial crisis, this comedy-drama tells the multifaceted story of its likable but beleaguered title character (Emma Mackey), an idealistic and enthusiastic lieutenant governor who champions causes aimed at helping everyday citizens, even if she’s somewhat long-wind…
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Maggie O’Farrell said at this screening that adapting her novel for the screen was akin to watching the sand flow through an hour glass. She started with something extensive, whittled it down to 90-odd pages and then gave it to a director (Chloé Zhao) who frilled it all out again to make a couple of hours for the screen that is somewhat different from the original. I reckon that’s the perfect way to describe just how this story of a part of Shakespeare's life comes across, and at last - I have seen something from Paul Mescal that isn’t just hype. He is the bard, before he was the bard. He taug…
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