Johnny English is not just a bad movie, it is an turgidly bad movie. Some bad movies have a level of confusion to keep you from the great sin of boredom. This is not one of those films. The plot is executed fine. The actors do fine. The editing is fine. But the film seems painfully frustrated to fill its own runtime.
Every scene in this movie consists of a central buffoonery gag by “free speech” bastard Rowan Atkinson as…
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Ok, let it be blunt here. It loves The History of the Seattle Mariners.
It does not get why it remains the most beloved of the Bois-Rubenstein docs.
The history of the Seattle Mariners, is, it would argue, not particularly a history of the Seattle Mariners, except in the most holistic sense. It is a series of vignettes taped together to communicate a general vibe. The runtime alone can convey that - you can easily nitpick their exceptions. Absolutely…
2023’s Wonka is a story about a libertarian fantasist with mommy issues teaming up with an URCHIN to defeat slumlords, the cartelisation of the chocolate industry, and the corrupt police force, before making a partnership with a spurned indigenous man to exploit the labour of his people.
There are also fat jokes about Keegan Michael-Key.
In the middle of last year, I played through Spice World for the original Playstation, a game that I would argue isn't a real game and is rather an attempt from the late 90's by someone who hates children to make all child consumers realise that the Spice Girls hate them and want to eat their bones.
The intense misery within that Playstation video game creates an interesting contrast with Spice World the movie, a film in which the Spice…
