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Arthur's Whisky (2024)
We had high hopes - but we swtiiched it off
I don't often switch off a film half way through, but I did with this one.
Started OK but went downhill very quickly. The editing seemed jumpy and disjointed, the younger actors didn't look or sound enough like their older counterparts. And it was all over the place.
Then out of nowhere up pops a historical gay subplot. There was no need for that and it seemed like a shoe in. So random. Oh and yes, there was a creepy relationship between and middle aged food van guy and a younger character develop too.
Like I said it was too jumpy and disjointed. And these stories are examples of this. It felt like they'd not filmed enough and had to cut together 4 or 5 random stories to scrape a film together. Even the actors looked bemused and bored. Great idea, some great actors, but it was executed poorly, I'm amazed it got last quality control.
Ah well - not the end of the world, go find a better film 😬
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Non-stop twists, turns and action.
A great film. It was so good. The twists and turns were clever and regular and the action scenes were long and interesting and at times - funny too! It really is a blockbuster film, a true blockbuster, you need to see it on the big screen. Some of the scenes looked very real with limited cgi. A perfect summer blockbuster. Go and see it - you won't be disappointed. On one level, it's not a groundbreaking film there's little apart from the stunts make it an amazing film - it's just a well-made well acted, well performed and an intriguing film. In my opinion it's the best of the Mission Impossible films too. Bring on part two!
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
The mulitiverse was the worst idea, and this is proof 🙄
I'll enrage the MCU fans but honestly when they ran out of ideas the mulitiverse saved them, at least financially. This has good moments but some of the effects early on are pretty ropey and the whole mulitiverse thing is just annoying and confusing. It's getting like Line Of Duty - you have to watch this with a notebook to work out who is who! Come back Marvel, give us more origin stories and leave the mulitiverse alone, Spiderman did thst well, bu this was a complex exlsove dissapointing mess.
The Last Bus (2021)
Beautiful and emotional story - ignore the random reviews here!
Well made, beautifully written, acted and shot. One of the most emotional films I've seen in years. All shot during covid too. British independent film at its best.
Finch (2021)
A cross between Castaway, I am legend and Wall-E!
Hanks is excellent and Jeff the robot is great too. A sad, occasionally tense and moving film but it has hope too. Worth a watch - ignore the 1 and 2 star reviews 🙄
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! (2021)
Wow. So woke it almost dissapeared up its own bottom!
It has some fun moments this docu and Rob Lowe is good - but they make weirdly wild accusations about racism and homophobia that seem to come out of nowhere. It's very bizarre. They seem to claim that all black roles are somehow racist and every time they show a gay man on screen they kill him off! Tom Hanks in Philadelphia is an amazing film that changed people's view of the hiv/aids crisis, and yet somehow he wasn't allowed to die? So bizarre. Felt like it was made by people who don't understand film. When will we stop criticising everything?! Some films have aged well and some haven't - that's OK. That's life. We live and learn, but we cannot cancel the last 100 years 🙄
WALL·E (2008)
A masterpiece in minimalism.
The first 23 minutes has no or little dialogue and it makes it so so much more engaging. Funny, heartbreaking, cute, moving. I'm not sure whether kids liked it or not but I did! Beautiful. One of favourite films of all time without a doubt. Top five.