Jonty Langley

Jonty Langley

Writer, fan of film from the 40s to the 20s

Favorite films

  • Brief Encounter
  • The Tree of Life
  • The Shining
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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  • Fly Me to the Moon

    ★★

  • Quiz Lady

    ★★★

  • Snack Shack

    ★★★★

  • Bookworm

    ★★★

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  • Fly Me to the Moon

    Fly Me to the Moon

    ★★

    Wildly unfunny, but at least it's expensive looking and has space stuff.

    Scarlett Johansson is a mercenary money-chaser who thinks of herself as a pragmatist but mostly justifies the unjustifable. And this character is perfect for her.

    A film that tries to make the case that 60s PR was cute, while literally minimising the crimes of companies like Dow.

    Feel bad for Tatum, who is better than this. Script feels like it was focus grouped by out of touch millionaires obsessed with seeming relatable without actually finding out what humans care about.

  • Quiz Lady

    Quiz Lady

    ★★★

    Awkwafina is so watchable and this is so wholesome. Funny too.

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  • God Is a Bullet

    God Is a Bullet

    ½

    All the other b-grade, post-Taken revenge flicks a bit too smart for you? DW, the guy from The Notebook (no, really) has got you.

    Stupid, awful people are gonna love this.

    Dialogue that isn't just embarrassingly bad but also frequently redundant ("that makes me wet between my legs" -thanks for clarifying, hun; "you come here, shooting the place up, guns blazing" - thanks bud) and a plot that goes nowhere again and again.

    The main problem with this is not…

  • The Pope's Exorcist

    The Pope's Exorcist

    ★★★½

    Can we not with the growling?
    This is a fun film, cool story, nice to see the Church blamed but still able to be redeemed, but sweet fucking fuck can we stop with the demons growling?

    Why would they? Who is scared by this? Every time a mood or plot point is building nicely, it's like fucking punctuation in this film, the possessed kid goes full Tony the Tiger and shouts we're in Hell and it's grerrreat!

    Crowe is badass tho, and some damn cool lines.

    The film is good.