Mad Men retro style applied to the Space Race. Scarlett Johansen executive produces and leads cast as Marketing Genius Kelly Jones, bending the truth but raising funds for Apollo 11. Good examples of product placements with Crest Toothpaste and Omega Watches, so we can all live a little bit like the astronauts.
Channing Tatum plays Cole Davis, NASA Launch Director … a complex character who feels very responsible for fatalities on Apollo 1. Scarlett’s character Kelly also has a difficult…
The election of a new Pope is a famously arcane process and this film takes us behind the scenes in the adaptation of Robert Harris novel.
Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci deliver 5* performances, and the film would score higher if there was more backstory about the politics between the shifting outcomes each time the conclave voted.
The leader by Roger McCough covers the themes of the reluctant leader versus the wannabe, as described in the poem:
I wanna be…
23 Seconds to Eternity is a brilliant artistic compilation of the madcap adventures of Bill Drummond (King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (Rock Man Rock) … kudos to Director Bill Butt for repeatedly filming impossible concepts.
Looking forward to extra features on the DVD. Quite trippy watching the Ford Timelord (number 23 on roof) slide and roll around 90s London past a festooned Harrods and over iconic bridges … surreal legal inserts about contracts and loopholes caught my attention.
The…
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Saltburn is a film to see in a lux cinema on a sofa with a temporary butler on call. As Mark Twain said, history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. There are echoes of Brideshead, The Talented Mr Ripley and Withnail & I - but the movie is not derivative - more a doffing of the topper. I had to dig deep to think of a similar mix of debauchery and dark humour. If you…
