What a wild ride this is. Bong Joon Ho pulls no punches in this over the top, political, science fiction comedy, gleefully lampooning Trump and the cult of Maga, in a crazy tale about colonisation, immigration, capitalism, egotism and environmentalism, which is also a love story laced with buffoonery and satire. There are so many things going on that it often feels like a tidal wave of ideas, but they all stick and the cast are uniformly fantastic. I had an absolute blast with this, an imaginative tour deforce, which pours scorn and mockery on the state of the modern world.
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The Last Showgirl 2024
Pamela Anderson plays a 57 year old razzle dazzle dancer, coming to terms with a world which has lost interest and an ageist industry. She's devoted her life to the job, at the expense kf her daughter and relationships, the former resents her and she's lost in a world which has moved on. It's a poignant movie, dealing with loss, change and the entertainment industry's obsession with age and beauty. It's very bleak and slow paced, with camera angles getting…
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Whiplash 2014
Andrew Neyman, an ambitious and promising young jazz drummer, enrols in the best music school money can buy. His family are dismissive of his life choices even after he starts making good progress by impressing the renowned teacher Terence Fletcher. However Fletcher himself turns out to be a ridiculously hard task master who subsequently pushes Neyman to breaking point and beyond.
This film is breathtaking. JK Simmons (who I confess I only previously knew from his short snippets as J…
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Avengers: Infinity War 2018
Woah, I hate using the word epic for movies (or anything really!) but it seems to have been invented for this. Infinity War is Marvel to the max, it's not going to win over anyone who's bored with this stuff (to the contrary, it'll probably annoy them even more!) but for those of us still on board it's everything we could have asked for and more.
That said, this is considerably darker than anything Marvel have done before. Not that…
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