Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Danny Dyer isn't someone I've paid a great deal of attention to since his feature debut performance in Human Traffic (connecting that character to this one in Marching Powder is an amusing train of thought) but his current standing in the British media is moderately fascinating. Being relentlessly mocked by many regulars in the comedy scene for his performances and jack-the-lad persona, Dyer's defied the fate of many similarly spotlighted celebs by embracing the way he's perceived, occasionally appearing on…
For obvious reasons, mostly pertaining to the symmetry of Demi Moore and Pamela Anderson making acclaimed comebacks in films in which they play middle aged women who confront their being middle aged and working in the entertainment industry, The Last Showgirl has mostly been compared to The Substance. For me though, my instinctive comparison was Anora, if only because I thought that if you played them back to back and didn't tell me who directed them, I might have assumed…
One of the trailers that preceded The Monkey was for the newest Final Destination. The first in fourteen years. I had to feel bad for that, making a comeback in the year that another film aped their gimmick. The accidental deaths in The Monkey are nowhere near as elaborate as those in the FD franchise, but it also exposes that that's all they really had going for them, the domino-effect absurdity. The Monkey, while maybe getting a little repetitive with…
I hadn't realised that DreamWorks' Captain Underpants film was released almost eight years ago, so perhaps it's a bit of a leap to see it and this year's Dog Man as the start of a trend for the animation studio of releasing lower budgeted films aimed at kids through a picture book animation style (also didn't realise that Dog Man is based on the work of the same author as Captain Underpants, hence the very similar stylings) but I hope…