Not one for writing much but this is a brilliant engrossing film.
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12 Reviews
Birds of Prey
(2020)
Really enjoyed this
12 February 2020
I've been a fan of Harley since BTAS & thought she was the only decent thing in Suicide Squad.
Think the film shouldn't have really bothered with the Birds Of Prey theme, Just having the film focus around Harley would have worked just as well.
Such a shame that it doesn't seem to have set the box office alight but hopefully the fact that is was filmed on a low budget which it will recouperate will lead to a 3rd one. Harley is DCs deadpool character & that's defo not a bad thing...
Think the film shouldn't have really bothered with the Birds Of Prey theme, Just having the film focus around Harley would have worked just as well.
Such a shame that it doesn't seem to have set the box office alight but hopefully the fact that is was filmed on a low budget which it will recouperate will lead to a 3rd one. Harley is DCs deadpool character & that's defo not a bad thing...
Joker
(I) (2019)
No sign of Mr J here
7 October 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Do not get the love for this film at all...
I didn't see the need for a Joker origin story but the trailer came along & looked pretty good. So I went in prepared to enjoy this Elseworld version of the Joker.
Problem was, The Joker didn't turn up for his own film.
Just some bloke who worked as a clown who had various knocks thrown at him which caused him to murder some guys (in self defence) & then shoot someone else
Not a bad film as films go, but certainly not a Joker I recognise. No desire to ever watch this again...
I didn't see the need for a Joker origin story but the trailer came along & looked pretty good. So I went in prepared to enjoy this Elseworld version of the Joker.
Problem was, The Joker didn't turn up for his own film.
Just some bloke who worked as a clown who had various knocks thrown at him which caused him to murder some guys (in self defence) & then shoot someone else
Not a bad film as films go, but certainly not a Joker I recognise. No desire to ever watch this again...
God Friended Me
(2018–2020)
Really enjoying this quirky show
3 April 2019
Season One - Over All
I'm enjoying this... (a lot)
I stumbled upon this new show (2019) after a recent install of Morpheaus TV on my lil android box.
This show has a very Being Erica vibe, wind instruments, chocky block pleasing mellow incidental music with a gorgeous cast of characters all smiling & friendly, mostly... Being Erica a show I very much enjoyed. No cops, no robbers, no detectives or crimes. A show based on an idealised way of every day life.
God Friended Me is similar in that there is a underlying "twilight zone" premise. Is it God, is it a genius chess player, who is God?
And more importently does it really matter to the characters who are frequanting this tale, like old school superheroes, no punches, no costumes. Just people being nice. Give Peace A Chance...
Miles Finder (Brandon Hall) our lead comes over as such an affable charming lead, he'd make a charming Doctor if the BBC ever got their act together.
Yeah he's against the God account to start, but he gets into it, and who wouldn't, a life wondering around helping people whilst building on family relationships.
The supporting cast (& that's not fair because their all excellent) are led by Violett Beane (whom I have to say, is just drop dead perfect) (which makes me a dirty old man, according to my daughter)
Cara encorages Miles to embrace the God account and a theme of will they / won't they develops, I'm on ep 8 at the moment, I have no idea. (My instinct is Noooo, lets have a show without sex?
I love the way they just wonder around New York, coffee shop here, bar there, resteraunt that way, bunch of friends just hanging out. So unreal but such a nice ideal.
Again, the similarities, feel to Being Erica, I'm not sure who collaborated on both shows, if anyone, do you know? Please leave comment. Yeah, relationships, like, yeah..
I stumbled upon this new show (2019) after a recent install of Morpheaus TV on my lil android box.
This show has a very Being Erica vibe, wind instruments, chocky block pleasing mellow incidental music with a gorgeous cast of characters all smiling & friendly, mostly... Being Erica a show I very much enjoyed. No cops, no robbers, no detectives or crimes. A show based on an idealised way of every day life.
God Friended Me is similar in that there is a underlying "twilight zone" premise. Is it God, is it a genius chess player, who is God?
And more importently does it really matter to the characters who are frequanting this tale, like old school superheroes, no punches, no costumes. Just people being nice. Give Peace A Chance...
Miles Finder (Brandon Hall) our lead comes over as such an affable charming lead, he'd make a charming Doctor if the BBC ever got their act together.
Yeah he's against the God account to start, but he gets into it, and who wouldn't, a life wondering around helping people whilst building on family relationships.
The supporting cast (& that's not fair because their all excellent) are led by Violett Beane (whom I have to say, is just drop dead perfect) (which makes me a dirty old man, according to my daughter)
Cara encorages Miles to embrace the God account and a theme of will they / won't they develops, I'm on ep 8 at the moment, I have no idea. (My instinct is Noooo, lets have a show without sex?
I love the way they just wonder around New York, coffee shop here, bar there, resteraunt that way, bunch of friends just hanging out. So unreal but such a nice ideal.
Again, the similarities, feel to Being Erica, I'm not sure who collaborated on both shows, if anyone, do you know? Please leave comment. Yeah, relationships, like, yeah..
Enjoyable & worth watching
3 April 2019
OK, I'll admit, i inwardly groaned when I read the title of this one, what with the similarly titled classic episode nightmare at 20,000 feet. Which if you have never seen, go download, classic episode.
But other than a similar title and being set upon an airplane it's a pretty different tale with a very different outlook. A journalist finds a mp3 player upon which holds on it a podcast discussing the tragic fate of flight 1015. Which just happens to be this flight. Jordan Peel
The narration by Jordan Peele (who I am totally unfamiliar with) feels good, I particularly liked the way his his narration cut across the airplanes onboard tvs.
The tale itself is fairly straight with our journelist trying to piece together what is being said on the podcast with the reality of his situation. Becoming irratating to his fellow passangers but finding out more and more that what is on the podcast is true & events are leading towards a flight that disapears from the radar.
Unlike the original nightmare at 20,000 feet this tale has a different and pleasing ending. I'm enjoying this pace at 1 hr episodes, which gives the show time to allow the characters to breath.
Without giving the ending away the twilight zone again proves what a cruel mistress she can be to seemingly undeserving people.
Really enjoying this show so far, looking forward to more.
But other than a similar title and being set upon an airplane it's a pretty different tale with a very different outlook. A journalist finds a mp3 player upon which holds on it a podcast discussing the tragic fate of flight 1015. Which just happens to be this flight. Jordan Peel
The narration by Jordan Peele (who I am totally unfamiliar with) feels good, I particularly liked the way his his narration cut across the airplanes onboard tvs.
The tale itself is fairly straight with our journelist trying to piece together what is being said on the podcast with the reality of his situation. Becoming irratating to his fellow passangers but finding out more and more that what is on the podcast is true & events are leading towards a flight that disapears from the radar.
Unlike the original nightmare at 20,000 feet this tale has a different and pleasing ending. I'm enjoying this pace at 1 hr episodes, which gives the show time to allow the characters to breath.
Without giving the ending away the twilight zone again proves what a cruel mistress she can be to seemingly undeserving people.
Really enjoying this show so far, looking forward to more.
Yes, worth watching, regardless of your resons
2 April 2019
Whilst having a flick through Morpheus tv app, (good app). I discovered eps 1 & 2 had been released, quickly downloaded them. Twilight Zone has always equalled a quality show to my mind, this series, so far, has upheld the tradition.
The Comedian starts off with a rather unfunny comedian, down on his luck, relationship issues when he comes across legendary comedian "J.C. Wheeler" upon a stool at a small little comedy club. Thus begins his journey into the twilight zone.
Without going into the story, the style and visuals are pleasing, soft orange lights, (I do miss the smoke of a nightclub) and the story builds nicely as the journey into the twilight zone begins. I was surprised that this episode was an hour long. Not sure 1 hr episodes suit the twilight zone, but for this episode yes it did.
As the Comedian realised his power he first makes jokes on random people he finds on social media, bad people, but it always came back to being personal and the people in his life. A small portion of the show dealt with altered reality / the Comedians awareness of where he was. Nice. (Especially in this day and age of spiritual & science questioning of reality.)
And that is what the Twilight Zone has always been about.
The Comedian, (and I cannot find his character name or actor name on line?) Didn't deserve his fate, and that is one of the beauties of Rod Serlings twilight zone. It's a cruel place.
I did think the tale was going to go another way and was pleased to be wrong.
Opening credits, Mmm, too fast, slow it all down, we don't need a ton of CGI graphics chucked in our face. (Think a fade shot of Rod would be worthy)
Opening Theme: Yeah fine.
The Comedian starts off with a rather unfunny comedian, down on his luck, relationship issues when he comes across legendary comedian "J.C. Wheeler" upon a stool at a small little comedy club. Thus begins his journey into the twilight zone.
Without going into the story, the style and visuals are pleasing, soft orange lights, (I do miss the smoke of a nightclub) and the story builds nicely as the journey into the twilight zone begins. I was surprised that this episode was an hour long. Not sure 1 hr episodes suit the twilight zone, but for this episode yes it did.
As the Comedian realised his power he first makes jokes on random people he finds on social media, bad people, but it always came back to being personal and the people in his life. A small portion of the show dealt with altered reality / the Comedians awareness of where he was. Nice. (Especially in this day and age of spiritual & science questioning of reality.)
And that is what the Twilight Zone has always been about.
The Comedian, (and I cannot find his character name or actor name on line?) Didn't deserve his fate, and that is one of the beauties of Rod Serlings twilight zone. It's a cruel place.
I did think the tale was going to go another way and was pleased to be wrong.
Opening credits, Mmm, too fast, slow it all down, we don't need a ton of CGI graphics chucked in our face. (Think a fade shot of Rod would be worthy)
Opening Theme: Yeah fine.
Life Happens
(2011)
Enjoyable, slightly quirky, worth a watch.
28 March 2019
Strange film but I did enjoy. I actually went on a hunt for Kate Bosworth films 'cos like she's a pretty actress and I'm a sexist male so the two go together.
A comedy centered on two best friends (plus another one not in the tag line) who fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after Kim gets pregnant and has a baby.
So KB plays a gorgeous high maintenance bird, as one believes someone of her looks can achieve, and Krysten Ritter, dee one who gets preggers. KB (Deena) shags openly, loves sex and is kind of put upon as a friend to babysit for Max (dee baby) which she does, but she also has a life and and career. It's not her baby.
KR, (Kim) does a great job of being generally flustered, goofy and weird, it's the writing of course. But...
And here I have a jar with the film, because KR has absolutely know connection with the baby actor playing her son. None. Barely does she look at him, he's just something lugged around on her hips. The film itself plays on the hardships of a single mother, but jeez, their was like no chemistry between KR & the baby.
In fact KB interacts more with the baby than the babies mother, look at the scene near the end credits. At first I thought this lack of bonding between mother and baby was going to form a plot point but nothing that interesting happened.
Fairly formulaic film but enjoyable all the same, boy meets girl, both have secrets they don't discuss like people in the real world would, (oooh I have a baby, it's so bad. Gee I'm separated from my wife, ahhgh)
They all lived happily ever after, probably, we'll never know, this isn't franchise material!
A comedy centered on two best friends (plus another one not in the tag line) who fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after Kim gets pregnant and has a baby.
So KB plays a gorgeous high maintenance bird, as one believes someone of her looks can achieve, and Krysten Ritter, dee one who gets preggers. KB (Deena) shags openly, loves sex and is kind of put upon as a friend to babysit for Max (dee baby) which she does, but she also has a life and and career. It's not her baby.
KR, (Kim) does a great job of being generally flustered, goofy and weird, it's the writing of course. But...
And here I have a jar with the film, because KR has absolutely know connection with the baby actor playing her son. None. Barely does she look at him, he's just something lugged around on her hips. The film itself plays on the hardships of a single mother, but jeez, their was like no chemistry between KR & the baby.
In fact KB interacts more with the baby than the babies mother, look at the scene near the end credits. At first I thought this lack of bonding between mother and baby was going to form a plot point but nothing that interesting happened.
Fairly formulaic film but enjoyable all the same, boy meets girl, both have secrets they don't discuss like people in the real world would, (oooh I have a baby, it's so bad. Gee I'm separated from my wife, ahhgh)
They all lived happily ever after, probably, we'll never know, this isn't franchise material!
Stan & Ollie
(2018)
Really good, sweet & moving film with plenty of classic laughs
29 January 2019
What a brilliant film.
I grew up on Laural & Hardy re-runs in the 1970s & always preffered them over Charlie Chaplin. This film is a touching tale of the tour they undertook in the UK in the 1950s, a tour that was undersold to start but sold out towards the end.
It's been so many years since I have seen L&H but the routines acted out perfectly in the film were as funny as ever. Steve Coogan & John C Reily's performance superb, if anything they looked more like Stan & Ollie of the 30s than Stan & Ollie did in the 50s.
Totally recommended.
I grew up on Laural & Hardy re-runs in the 1970s & always preffered them over Charlie Chaplin. This film is a touching tale of the tour they undertook in the UK in the 1950s, a tour that was undersold to start but sold out towards the end.
It's been so many years since I have seen L&H but the routines acted out perfectly in the film were as funny as ever. Steve Coogan & John C Reily's performance superb, if anything they looked more like Stan & Ollie of the 30s than Stan & Ollie did in the 50s.
Totally recommended.
Venom
(2018)
Great film, worth a watch
20 December 2018
Warning: Spoilers
To start, I really enjoyed this film.
Oh & spoilers ahead...
I didn't bother to see Venom at the cinema, my initial thoughts being, it's a standalone Venom movie, it's not linked to the Marvelverse, there's no Spidey tie in, it's made by Fox. What's the point?
But the film was surprisingly good when I got around to watching it at home.
With Tom Hardy playing a likeable Eddie Brock, I guess not having that rivalry with Peter Parker from the comic book world allowed the character of Brock to come through as a more sympathetic loser than the total git he was in comic books. The supporting cast all did their jobs fine & the film moved along at a fine pace.
Some of the CGI, well actually a lot of the CGI, was too much CGI. But then I have no idea how you show Venom fight sequances without CGI.
It's a shame the film centered on a battle with another symbiote, I don't know why films need to create a hero & then immediatly create a 2nd version but bad so quickly. It would have been equally entertaining to have spent more time with Venom / Brock on lighter, humerous, charachter building moments. Ala Superman 1978.
The end spoiler of Carnage is a nice touch & I look forward to the next film & from a fanboy point of view, maybe they can bring it a tad more into the Marveverse!!
I didn't bother to see Venom at the cinema, my initial thoughts being, it's a standalone Venom movie, it's not linked to the Marvelverse, there's no Spidey tie in, it's made by Fox. What's the point?
But the film was surprisingly good when I got around to watching it at home.
With Tom Hardy playing a likeable Eddie Brock, I guess not having that rivalry with Peter Parker from the comic book world allowed the character of Brock to come through as a more sympathetic loser than the total git he was in comic books. The supporting cast all did their jobs fine & the film moved along at a fine pace.
Some of the CGI, well actually a lot of the CGI, was too much CGI. But then I have no idea how you show Venom fight sequances without CGI.
It's a shame the film centered on a battle with another symbiote, I don't know why films need to create a hero & then immediatly create a 2nd version but bad so quickly. It would have been equally entertaining to have spent more time with Venom / Brock on lighter, humerous, charachter building moments. Ala Superman 1978.
The end spoiler of Carnage is a nice touch & I look forward to the next film & from a fanboy point of view, maybe they can bring it a tad more into the Marveverse!!
Somewhere Between
(2017)
Very enjoyable
30 October 2018
Really enjoying this, I'm upto ep 6 now having binge watched over the last 2 days.
Some comments from others re the acting, as someone who can't really see bad acting (I just accept that is what the character is like) I have no issues.
All in all I'd say give this a try.
Some comments from others re the acting, as someone who can't really see bad acting (I just accept that is what the character is like) I have no issues.
All in all I'd say give this a try.
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