Ep 445 – Bumblebee – Sam Tripoli
Graham and Chris welcome Sam Tripoli to talk about Bumblebee, John
Coltrane and more!
Rename this flick Straight Outta Compton: The Authorised Biopic of NWA, and you’ll have no problem slurping up its many pleasures. Any perceived oversights, white-washings and re-writings of history can be relegated to the internet, while up on the silver screen, jazzy images, fine performances, and awesome music can be smugly devoured. Not that, even…
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DetailsThe plot’s pretty standard, but Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. remake / reboot / whatever has a lot of charm. It’s incredibly stylish, at times breathtakingly beautiful, and features an absolute star-making turn by Henry Cavill as Napoleon Dynamite – whoops, Solo – played long ago on the small screen by Robert Vaughn. I didn’t see…
DetailsTrainwreck opens with one of the funniest scenes of the year thus far. It closes with a scene that is corny, clichéd and sentimental. The whole film, when broken down, pretty much works in the same way: the first act is a brilliant sex comedy, the second act is an above average sex comedy/RomCom, and the…
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