Will the copperplods be able to breadcrumb their way to the location in time to save the old fella?
7/10
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
22/09/19 American Hangman (2019)
Fairly routine, but decent (one terrible actor aside), thriller about a legally wronged young fella who takes a judge hostage and broadcasts the judge's own trial, under the threat of execution, live on the web.
Will the copperplods be able to breadcrumb their way to the location in time to save the old fella?
7/10
Will the copperplods be able to breadcrumb their way to the location in time to save the old fella?
7/10
21/09/19 A Night Of Horror Volume 1 (2015)
Anthology of really crap horror shorts. Doubt I'll bother with Volume 2.
21/09/19 Yesterday (2019)
Young fella gets knocked off his bike just as a brief global blackout strikes. When he wakes up, he is the only person who can remember The Beatles.
They, along with a few other household names/items got wiped from existence during 'The Event'.
So, being a struggling musician, he nicks their songs, releases them as his own and becomes almost as famous as they were.
I'm not a Beatles fan, I think for every truly great song they did, there's an album's worth of bland (early period) or indulgent (later period) wank that I'll happily never hear again, so I was expecting to be indifferent to this. But, pleasingly, the cast are likable, there's some actually funny humour and a Robert Carlyle cameo that I found surprisingly touching.
Also, Podd is a lifelong Beatlehead, so she quickly filled in any blanks for me.
7.5/10
They, along with a few other household names/items got wiped from existence during 'The Event'.
So, being a struggling musician, he nicks their songs, releases them as his own and becomes almost as famous as they were.
I'm not a Beatles fan, I think for every truly great song they did, there's an album's worth of bland (early period) or indulgent (later period) wank that I'll happily never hear again, so I was expecting to be indifferent to this. But, pleasingly, the cast are likable, there's some actually funny humour and a Robert Carlyle cameo that I found surprisingly touching.
Also, Podd is a lifelong Beatlehead, so she quickly filled in any blanks for me.
7.5/10
21/09/19 Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Sticky child visits Europe and fights with computer graphics.
16/09/19 The Dead Don't Die (2019)
If this film was a sandwich it'd be smug flavour. Minimal filling between two slices of bland bread. And many sandwich critics would claim it's fantastic when, plainly, it's shit and shouldn't have been made.
Turned it off with only fifteen or so minutes left to go.
2/10
Turned it off with only fifteen or so minutes left to go.
2/10
16/09/19 Haunt (2019)
Some young people go to a haunted house attraction. Turns out there's real murderers there.
The makers of this must be glad they got in there with such an original plot before anyone else done the same thing ten times in the last few years.
The makers of this must be glad they got in there with such an original plot before anyone else done the same thing ten times in the last few years.
Sunday, 17 November 2019
14/09/19 Night Hunter (2018)
In his radio review of this, Mark Kermode opened with "Night hunter, which is a preposterously terrible thriller..."
He could've stopped there, but as he's one of those people who talk about films for a living, he rattled on for another five minutes.
The opening description is entirely fair, but, conversely, is what made us want to see this. Should have just taken his word for it.
2/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3sd5_OAtT8
In case you wanna hear his thoughts yourself.
He could've stopped there, but as he's one of those people who talk about films for a living, he rattled on for another five minutes.
The opening description is entirely fair, but, conversely, is what made us want to see this. Should have just taken his word for it.
2/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3sd5_OAtT8
In case you wanna hear his thoughts yourself.
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