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Annie (2014)
Entertaining, good songs throughout.
Family movie and I expected not to like it because I don't like cheesy songs from musicals (think anything Lloyd Weber) but it pleasantly surprised me and I remained engaged throughout.
The songs while simple aren't annoying and are well performed. The storyline is good, all the lead actors are great, I thought.
Arthur Newman (2012)
Blunt works, Firth doesn't, storyline meh.
Perhaps my least favourite Emily Blunt movie. The chemistry between her and Colin Firth just doesn't work. The age gap and their different character types means that in real life they wouldn't have spoken let alone road tripped together.
Blunt is good throughout, one of my favourite actresses, she lights up her character. Firth on the other hand seems awkward throughout.
Give it a miss.
Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know (2018)
Great one hour documentary by BBC on Duran Duran's career
A well produced history of Duran Duran who began life as a nightclub band, and then in walked Simon Le Bon. The stories of those early years are well told and interesting; that a bunch of 18-22 year olds managed to launch a career and make great decisions stylistically to promote their music. It follows their career from Planet Earth 1981 to Paper Gods 2015, and for the sake of time can't cover all areas but achieves an entertaining review of theIr path from adulation to derision and back to comfort in the limelight as their legacy is recognised.
Mystify: Michael Hutchence (2019)
I hope Mystify gets a cinema release in the UK
I really hope this film gets a cinema release in the UK. Websites state that it is to be aired on the BBC but seeing Hutchence performances on the big screen would be far better. Fingers crossed.
Update Sept 2019. The film is showing as part of the BFI London Film Festival on 5 & 6 October in London. I'm going! :) Details at BFI website.
Jaws 3-D (1983)
Get boring mid way through, and effects don't work in 2D
It starts off ok, the first hour flows ok. But then it all gets a bit boring and it's not helped by the 3D effects that look rubbish in 2D.
I thought about turning it off with half hour to go, but decided I'd invested enough time to see it out, but in hindsight I should have taken that extra amount of sleep.
In short, dont bother.
Mystify: Michael Hutchence (2019)
I hope Mystify gets a cinema release in the UK
I really hope this film gets a cinema release in the UK. Websites state that it is to be aired on the BBC but seeing Hutchence performances on the big screen would be far better. Fingers crossed.
Update Sept 2019. The film is showing as part of the BFI London Film Festival on 5 & 6 October in London. I'm going! :) Details at BFI website.
White Gold (2017)
Would be better without the smut.
Funny. Great cast. Great script. If only they stuck to the funny rather than overloading it with Inbetweeners smut. Series 2 episode 1 achieved that, episode 2 was the opposite and lost my intertest in the series.
Less smut would open it to a more mainstream audience and make it more successful.
A Walk in the Woods (2015)
Like Bryson's books, hated this film
So many things in this movie didn't work for me.
I've read many of Bill Bryson's books and I get his style and humour. I don't think the director did.
The casting, I didn't think Redford was a convincing Bryson, maybe Nolte would have been better cast in the lead. Redford is too refined and clean cut. Then, as Bryson's wife Emma Thompson didn't work for me either, there was no chemistry between them.
I suffered the first hour and a half and fell asleep, I really should have quit earlier.