🎥 Films
🎥 The Parking Lot Movie, 2010 - ★★★½
Accidentally found this movie on TV … q super way to spend an hour and ten minutes … a documentary revealing humor and humanity.
🎥 The French Dispatch, 2021 - ★★★★
Wes Anderson Hasn’t Changed With ‘The French Dispatch.’ And That’s Perfectly Fine.It was on my ‘to watch’ list even before I read this;
> “But the most endearing thing about Wes Anderson is that he’s a hopelessly romantic filmmaker, and these worlds he creates clearly mean a lot to him. His latest film, The French Dispatch, is a love letter certainly—to journalism, to writers, to art in general and filmmaking specifically—and rather than change or adapt in the way some want to see, he gloriously doubles down on his style, making for his most maximalist, hyper-imaginative film yet.”
🎥 The Hitman's Bodyguard, 2017 - ★★★★
If you are thinking about watching the sequel - watch this one instead.
🎥 Mrs Lowry & Son, 2019 - ★★★½
Slow and gentle and worth curling up with if you in the right frame of mind.
🎥 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, 2022 - ★★★★
Lovely - just lovely - with occasional cringeworthy self help one liners.
🎥 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.
