Category Archives: Film

Film Review: Challengers (2024) ~ (Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Conner)

Posted on May 8, 2024 by odeboyz

I regretted paying £7:99 to watch this drivel until I had a blinding insight. This was my first complete Artificial Intelligence (AI) film. The only human involvement was the ensemble. The script was ChatGPT pure and simple.  Even films with … Continue reading →

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TV Review: Beckham (Netflix) (2023)

Posted on December 13, 2023 by odeboyz

Beckham is successful in every activity he’s pursued . A sublime footballer, a photo-shoot superstar, trophy wife and businessman. As a result, he’s had intense media scrutiny for most of his life. So, hasn’t planet *Beckham* been gutted of all … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Napoleon (2023) (Joaquin Phoenix)

Posted on December 6, 2023 by odeboyz

I shouldn’t go to historical biopic films. I tut-tut and nit-pick and definitely don’t enter into the spirit of the thing. Oppenheimer lulled me into a false sense of security. Disaster! I hated it and nearly walked out. Why? The … Continue reading →

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Film Review: The Great Escaper (2023) (Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson)

Posted on October 18, 2023 by odeboyz

Two great actors come together to make a wonderful film. It’s a biopic of Bernie Jordan who, aged 89, ‘broke’ out of his care home to attend – as an unofficial guest – the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings.1 … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Oppenheimer (2023) (Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey jr)

Posted on August 7, 2023 by odeboyz

At three hours long I nearly avoided this film. A grave error of judgement. Three hours flew past leaving me with a warm sense of privilege. Why? I felt that I’d been part of something, which was out of the … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald

Posted on May 18, 2023 by odeboyz

In 1955, Marilyn Monroe learned the Mocambo, a popular Hollywood nightclub, would not book Ella Fitzgerald because she was black. Monroe phoned the manager and told him she would reserve a front row table every night Ella performed there, knowing … Continue reading →

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Film Review: The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (NetFlix) (2018) (Jewish Swiss comedy – subtitles)

Posted on March 13, 2023 by odeboyz

This Jewish comedy piles cliché on to cliché, which should ruin the film. It doesn’t. It is a clever well-balanced comedy where the principal characters hang together and form a coherent whole. The storyline is basic Jewish humour. An over-bearing … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Bank of Dave (NetFlix) (Rory Kinnear) (2023)

Posted on March 2, 2023 by odeboyz

This is the biopic of Dave Fishwick, a self-made millionaire, from Burnley, Lancashire. He lives and works there and is grounded in the community. As a wealthy man he was often asked for loans. No paperwork just a handshake. None … Continue reading →

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Godfather Wisdom for everyone

Posted on September 26, 2022 by odeboyz
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Film Review: Bullet Train (Brad Pitt) (2022)

Posted on August 18, 2022 by odeboyz

If you work very hard it’s possible to find out what’s happening but it probably isn’t worth the effort. This gore-fest has a body count going into three figures. Being set in Japan there are more than the usual gun … Continue reading →

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