Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire is an odd experiment that doesn’t quite come off. It’s absolutely entertaining and I completely recommend it, but, dare I say it, I was hoping for more – perhaps too much. I’ve been expecting too much from Wheatley ever since I saw Kill List (2011), a wild, incredibly satisfying work of auteurist cinema. Terrifying, supremely…
DetailsWhen the higher ups at Comedy Film Nerds asked me if I’d review a documentary about The Refreshments, I balked. I try not to write about things that I don’t like because there’s so much stuff that I do. And, while I couldn’t remember their music, I remembered that I didn’t like it. I wound up reviewing Here’s…
DetailsAnother week, another bunch of news and events in film! Funny how that happens. Holy crap, the new teaser tailer for The Last Jedi is online! It’s awesome! In this week’s “Who’s the Cable guy?” story, Deadpool 2 has found its’ Cable, and he’ll be played by actor Josh Brolin. I’d say it’s an excellent…
DetailsAaaaaw, HELL NAH! You just gone and put Dominic Torretto up against the whole rest of his own team – his family! It’s OOOON! Boom. That’s the simple version of the plot. Not that The Fate of the Furious needs much more complicated machinations to surge this logic/physics/reality defying movie forward. I mean, let’s face…
DetailsLone Scherfig loves to fetishise Britishness. In her masterpiece, An Education (2009) she presents a fabulous and slightly fantastic 60s London; in The Riot Club (2014) she gets right into the taffy and the toffee at the snootiest club within Oxford University. Now she gives us a dreamily romanticised London under the blitz. It’s suitable for a romantic and…
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