“Our sight may have faltered, our legs given out, but our boners stand tall and do us proud!” The film, a remake of the 2011 hit Belgian comedy Hasta La Vista, is based on the experiences of Asta Philpot, who features in the film. Here’s the synopsis: Scotty, Mo and Matt, three young men with disabilities,… NEW trailer / poster for Come As You Are Read More
Blockers 3.5 stars
You say eggplant, I say aubergine. But while we are in some ways divided by a common language, emojis cross linguistic divides. Possibly not age divides though, as three parents struggle to translate their teenage daughters’ messages as they snoop on an accidentally open laptop. I’ll admit I was as baffled as them, and never… Blockers Read More
Book Club 3 stars
It’s tempting to treat Book Club as the long-awaited sequel to the Sex In The City movies (Sex In The Suburbs?). Vivian (Jane Fonda) as sex-mad Samantha, Diane (Diane Keaton) as quirky Carrie, Carol (Mary Steenburgen) as the vanilla Charlotte and Sharon (Candice Bergen) as highflying Miranda. Though if they are, the four women have… Book Club Read More
50 Shades Of Grey 1.5 stars
Five minutes in and the cliches are raining down like special snowflakes at a Donald Trump rally. I was hoping this would be Bridget Jones’s Diary if it had been given an American remake, with Jamie Dornan as Daniel Cleaver and Dakota Johnson as Bridget: “Cigarettes 0 / Chardonnay 0 / Light beatings 1 / Lip bites 5 / Boob shots… 50 Shades Of Grey Read More
Shame 4 stars
The night before watching Shame on TV, I started on Westworld, the HBO series. I loved the set up and the story but after a rather wearying hour of endlessly pert naked actresses of varying levels of famousness it was quite a relief to then see Michael Fassbender in Shame recalibrate the male/female on-screen nudity scales. Yes there… Shame Read More