Note: film club blog posts are both reviews and accounts of zoom watches, so are extremely spoilery. Don’t read if you’re a fan of chin-scratching ambiguity, that’s what I’m saying. Disaster films take our favourite movie metaphors and make them real, and that’s taken to its glorious (if deadly) extreme in The Wave, where a… The film club watches Norway’s The Wave, but is it yay or no way? Read More
PODCAST: Unpromising Old Lady guests on First Time Watchers talking Promising Young Woman
Podcast alert! No not my podcast, which I am still seriously considering just as I was 4 years ago when I first said I was launching a podcast. (I’m getting to it!) GET IT NOW ON apple podcasts This is the First Time Watchers podcast, run by Tim from the (once again) good ol’ US… PODCAST: Unpromising Old Lady guests on First Time Watchers talking Promising Young Woman Read More
Greenland’s UK date of doom announced! Watch the trailer now
Finally Gerard Butler’s excellent disasteroid / cometastrophe film Greenland has a UK release date. The Amazon Exclusive is out on Prime Video on 5 February – and it’s the perfect pandemic distraction, if like me your first movie watch when Lockdown 1.0 loomed last spring was Contagion. The film follows John Garrity (Butler), his wife… Greenland’s UK date of doom announced! Watch the trailer now Read More
Pieces Of A Woman: the final bit of the jigsaw
Warning: very spoilery about the end of the film – if you want to read my review instead, it’s here. Pieces Of A Woman is about Martha navigating her grief when her baby dies, and part of that is about her regaining control after the birth. Births are often unpredictable but she had tried to… Pieces Of A Woman: the final bit of the jigsaw Read More
Pieces Of A Woman 3.5 stars
When Martha and Sean’s baby dies shortly after her home birth, the months that follow see relationships around her fracture as Martha tries to navigate her grief. When Martha goes into labour, she and her husband Sean find their chosen midwife stuck with another birthing mother. They’re sent Eva instead, an unexpected development but not… Pieces Of A Woman Read More
Scorchio! The film club watches Skyfire 3 stars
I’m telling you now that as all my movie club reviews are, this is very spoilery, so chill. If Skyfire was a person it would be a young Tom Cruise: short, exciting, and very, very hot. This was the Good-Bad Film Club’s first watch since before Christmas. Instead I’ve been watching good films about terrible… Scorchio! The film club watches Skyfire Read More
The Blithe Spirit remake and the ghosts of movies past
Extremely spoilery about both Blithe Spirits and you’ll also have to simply accept that ghosts are real. (My review of the new Blithe Spirit film is here.) To misquote Princess Di, “there were three people in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded”. None of the three in Blithe Spirit (1945) or Blithe Spirit… The Blithe Spirit remake and the ghosts of movies past Read More
Blithe Spirit (2020) 2 stars
An author with writer’s block is visited by the ghost of his dead wife Elvira, who is soon making second wife Ruth jealous. I know I usually rail against the “pre-dead wife” trope, but with Noel Coward’s play I’ll allow it. Sadly though, even with the reappearance of the gorgeous, ghostly Elvira (Leslie Mann) this… Blithe Spirit (2020) Read More
Locked Down ending: from hedgies & homebaking to the Harris diamond, what happened?
Very spoilery! Edgar Allan Poe may have said “There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told,” but not here. (Or read my review.) “Freedom Linda, in one beautiful moment,” says Paxton as the stand in Harrods, dithering over whether to swap the fake diamond with the real one she’s supposed to be… Locked Down ending: from hedgies & homebaking to the Harris diamond, what happened? Read More
Locked Down 3 stars
Just as they decide to separate, Linda and Paxton find life has other plans when they are stuck at home in a mandatory lockdown. It may have more holes than my bubbling sourdough starter, but I enjoyed Locked Down a lot more than I enjoyed lockdown, the claustrophobia-induced frenzy of Doug Liman’s film all too… Locked Down Read More
Locked Down but not out: new trailer
*** My review and article are now live – also the UK release is now 11 March, for home rental *** “Oi, how many arses have you got?” asks Paxton of a loo roll stockpiler coming out of shop in London during Lockdown 1.0. Despite its UK lockdown hook, Locked Down is actually a heist… Locked Down but not out: new trailer Read More
Holy BeeGees-us! My journey from eh? to bee
It happened so quickly. One day I was watching Frank Marshall’s new Bee Gees documentary for the first time, coming to it with a rough memory of their disco years coupled with a vague understanding of a half-life before and after, culminating in them walking out of a 1997 interview with hilarious chat show host… Holy BeeGees-us! My journey from eh? to bee Read More
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