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I felt like watching something undemanding but entertaining. That's exactly what I got.
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I saw it listed on Netflix last week, and the above review has prompted me to watch again !
Directed by Otto Preminger and starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons.
Classic film noir that follows a familiar path of destruction, and has a predictably fab atmosphere.
Also a reminder of how advanced and glamorous Hollywood was some seventy years ago. Bob Mitchum has his usual super cool sardonic persona, and Jean Simmons is suitably confusing as the femme fatale.
Not particularly groundbreaking, but an admirable film nonetheless.
7/10
The Thirty Nine Steps - 1935
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat.
Sheer class and quality - an amazing film and the best version of a well told yarn.
10/10
Trivia note - Donat was distantly related to Public Image Ltd’s first drummer: Jim Walker.
Visually stunning, I must admit I got sucked in to this quirky but surreal French tale, and fell a little in love with the main character. She's offbeat, geeky, unique and slightly bonkers. You'll likely be charmed by her as much as I was.
Still, in the last 20 mins or so I just wished she'd hurry the fuck up and get off with the bloke from the porno shop.
8/10
Megan Fox plays an unfaithful wife whose wealthy, controlling husband arranges an anniversary weekend away in their remote lake house, which had been closed up for the winter. It turns out he knows about her infidelity and has planned an elaborate revenge...
I saw the trailer for this about ten times during the Frightfest weekend in August, otherwise I'd have passed it buy. Shot in Bulgaria with a largely British/Irish cast doing dodgy American accents, it takes forever to get going but the last half hour is reasonably exciting.
On Netflix.
2005 comedy with Jim Carey and Tia Leoni. I'd never heard of this film before, but Mrs Haych saw it and recommended it.
Jim (Dick) is desperately trying to work his way up the corporate ladder in a massive company. He's finally promoted to a VP position just before the company tanks and is made into something of a pariah. When Dick gets the new job Tia (Jane) quits hers as they think they're on the road to financial security.
After the company goes south Dick and Jane go through a period of extreme poverty and risk losing everything so take desperate measures to gain back some of their previous financial success.
As well as being quite an entertaining film it seems to be having a pop to global corporations who operate unethical strategy to get ahead - the end credits list thanks to Enron etc, although the film was made a couple of years before the big financial crash in 2008 so that confused me a bit.
Despite being entertaining it just wasn't that funny, even with Carey at the helm. He wasn't bad in it either and seemed to put everything he had into his role like he usually does but there were very few laugh out loud moments.
The story itself was ok but it seemed a bit pedestrian and lacking in direction for a while, so I struggled to engage with it - maybe that contributed to its lack of laughs - shrugs.
Overall, not awful, quite entertaining but its report card would read, could do a lot better. 6.5/10
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
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Bit disappointed. Had good reviews and Reynolds was his usual self but ultimately it was a bit like an update to the Truman Show for kids. 6/10
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There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.