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Category Archives: Film
Boris Johnson meets Monty Python
Just when everyone thought satire was dead the UK’s morbidly obese Prime Minster decided to lead an anti-obesity campaign. It had taken a near-death Covid-19 experience to convince him that being morbidly obese was unhealthy. A quick learner with an … Continue reading
Posted in education, Film, Humour, TV sitcom
Tagged Black humour, Boris Johnson, Monty Python, Obesity
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Film Review: American Factory (Netflix) (2019)
This brilliant documentary won the 2020 Oscar. Unfortunately it’s only on Netflix. If you want to see it sign up for a months free trial and then cancel. The 2008 banking crisis consumed GM’s factory in Ohio. A few years … Continue reading
Film Review: The Irishman ~ (Robert de Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci) (2019)
Robert de Niro and Martin Scorsese have had a long, profitable and illustrious career together. Their latest film, The Irishman, is astonishing. Although I dislike gimmick laden films this one is different. Here the gimmicks are central to the purpose … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Review
Tagged gangsterism, institutionalised violence, Mafia, Teamsters' Union
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Film Review: Souvenir (Tom Burke and Honor Swinton Byrne) (2019)
If you’re bored with franchise CGI films, find ‘Look at me Mum, I’m brave’ documentaries tedious, dislike political satire, hate ethnic films, or reading a novel whilst watching a film – reading at the cinema?- then Souvenir is for you. … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Review
Tagged actor nepotism, Bourgeois elite, entitlement, Kensington film makers
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Film Review: The Gentlemen (Michael McConaugh and Hugh Grant) (2020)
Recently I saw The Irishman, which has been lauded as yet another example of Scorsese’s genius. Where does this leave Guy Ritchie? It’s easy to mock Ritchie’s so-called ‘geezer’ movies. The infamous role he gave to Vinnie Jones in Lock, … Continue reading
Film Review: Yesterday (Himesh Patel and Lily James)
This was advertised on the side of buses as ‘The feel good film of the summer’. This normally means that you should park your brains in a foyer locker on the way in. And that would be a good tactic … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Humour, Review
Tagged Ed Sheeran, feel good film, Lennon and McCartney, pop fantasy
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Film Review: Maradona (director – Asif Kapadia)
Diego Maradona’s reputation, as a footballer, has survived the decades since retirement. His reputation has also survived revelations about his criminal and sleazy life-style whilst in Naples, which is remarkable testament to his genius. This documentary enhances Maradona’s reputation notwithstanding … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiography, Film, Review, Sport
Tagged 1986 World Cup, Hand of God, Naples criminals, sporting genius
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Carry on Doctor (1967)
Patient: “Nurse, I dreamt about you last night.” Nurse: “Did you?” Patient: “No, you wouldn’t let me.” [Patient: Bernard Bresslaw ~ Nurse: Anita Harris]
Posted in Film, Humour
Tagged Carry On film franchise, innuendo, working-class humour
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Film review: Toy Story 4 (Tim Allen and Annie Potts)
The least said, the better. Chris PS This isn’t the general opinion. US box office = $237M in ten days; UK box office = £26.9M