🎥 Films
🎥 The Banshees of Inisherin, 2022 - ★★★★
If you saw Colin and Brendan in their last outing .. which btw was very good … then this might catch you by surprise. Personally I love ‘little movies “ like this - the Brits and the Irish do so very well … this is no exception. Great dialogue. Beautiful scenery. Stonking cast and acting. If you … like me … saw a couple of trailers, you will likely be inspired to watch. I was. I wasn’t disappointed .. but make no mistake this is not a light movie. It is dark. It is humorous. It is great.
🎥 The Da Vinci Code, 2006 - ★★★★
Yes it is a yarn and the book is badly written (though I still turned the pages VERY quickly), this is the movie - and was a good one.
🎥 Amsterdam, 2022 - ★★★★
Been on my list since it came out and was not what I expected. Took 15 to 20 minutes to recalibrate. But I did. Really good. If I closed my eyes, the audio and dialogue reminded me of a Wes Anderson project (close your eyes .. the visuals are nothing like Wes. Bale was great .. at time channeling Peter Falk’s ‘Columbo’ … or is that just me?
🎥 The Power of the Dog, 2021 - ★★★★
It just popped up as a ‘why not watch’ kind of alert … I had. Very good.
🎥 Don't Look Up, 2021 - ★★★
I resisted watching this for a while … asked on the trailers … It was all right … but the cheesy trailers are a clue.
🎥 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022 - ★★★
It was better than the first in the series! Maybe I’m just not the target audience.
🎥 The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014 - ★★★★
Wes Anderson has such a distinctive style it’s amazing how they are so different. Love them all.
🎥 Spirited, 2022 - ★★
To be fair, the ‘other viewer’ gave it 3 stars - but whichever way you look at it - dud.
Count me in the camps of
- ‘definitely not a Will Ferrell fan’
- ‘definitely a massive Ryan Reynolds fan’
I didn’t know the director, so looked up his prior work. Now I understand.
🎥 My Name Is Vendetta, 2022 - ★★★
Probably a script that Liam rejected? It was ok - but we know how these movies pan out don't we? The clue is definitely in the title.
🎥 Bullet Train, 2022 - ★★★★½
**GREAT** movie. French Farce on a fast moving train, channeling Quentin Tarantino (with more humor and not quite as much violence) and Guy Ritchie ... directed by David Leitch - who according to IMDB is a producer, director, actor, stunt performer AND coordinator ... with John Wick, Hobbs and Shaw and Deadpool2 (which MIGHT explain a 2 second cameo by Ryan Reynolds) in his 'canon'.
🎥 Lesson Plan, 2022 - ★★
I know that there are only 7 stories in the world. My question is why is this the one that keeps getting told - and then badly. In fairness, I got to the end, so it wasn't a total dud, but if you want to watch this story sometime, choose a different movie.
