I wasn’t for Ant-Man, but Spy was a comedy and… Oh dear. Tonally, it was all over the place. Humour one minute, over-the-top violence the next. And the improv… Seriously, whoever decided that improv was a good way to make comedy movies “better” was clearly a fucking idiot. ...
The body-swap comedy is almost a subgenre in its own right, there have been that many films made with the premise. There are two main variations – husband/wife and parent/child. Se Eu Fosse Você –the title means “If I was you” – is a pretty straightforward Brazilian attempt at ...
The Sudden Appearance of Hope, Claire North (2016, UK). North’sThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry Augustwas subject to quite a bit of online buzz. So I read it, and enjoyed it. And North’s second book too,Touch, I read that and enjoyed it. But North’s star seemed to wane a li...
worried he has taken one of their secret projects to a rival firm, but the clues suggest to Vic he disappeared for other reasons. There are also flashbacks to Lotte’s childhood, focusing on a young Jewish woman who is a gifted physicist but finds it hard to be taken seriously and eventu...
Ich möchte kein Mann sein is a flat-out comedy, although not the fall-about slapsatick comedy Hollywood was making at the time, and it makes a meal of its “fish out of water” story. A fun film, but one chiefly for fans of silent cinema. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You ...