The 2018 Holmes and Watson is a masterclass in ill considered, poorly executed and misconstrued comedy that is remarkably far from funny. Classic comedy partnerships has always been a part of modern cinema and Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly’s partnership films of Talladege Nights : The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), and Step Brothers (2008) set them on the
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This review contains spoilers. So if you want to watch it, then don’t read on. But if you’re planning on watching it, me ruining some plot points is the lesser of the evils facing you… I don’t know why I even bothered to watch this. Well, that’s not true. At a time where superhero films are a huge business, I
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Pain and Gain is a pointless, charmless, crime-comedy-drama that stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson, as two body builders that find themselves into a world of crime as they aggressively pursue a better lives for themselves. Set in Florida, in 1995, and based on what (as the film itself says ‘sadly’) is a true story, the film is directed by
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Letter ‘C’ in the Alphabet Challenge takes us to the 2013 military mess Company of Heroes. This shameful piece of cinema is directed by Don Michael Paul (who brought the world other such films as Tremors 5 and Kindergarten Cop 2). The film includes performances by Tom Sizemore, Neal McDonough and Vinnie Jones. All of whom should have kept a
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No director symbolises the era of the multiplex blockbuster movie more than Michael Bay. By the way, that’s not a compliment. 2014’s ‘Transformers : Age of Extinction’ sees him directing the 4th Transformers movie, a form of a reboot from the first three in the sense that the story moves away Shia LaBeouf and Josh Duhamel. Instead we find Mark
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So we now face the 1997 ‘Batman and Robin’. Again directed by Joel Schumacher with the script by Akiva Goldman (who had also written Batman Forever). For role of Batman, Val Kilmer decided to not reprise the role of Batman, and in stepped George Clooney. Clooney at this point was still in ER however had begun to move into movies
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I’ll be brief. I can only assume that this film was made was based on a combination of the success of ‘Bridesmaids’ in the previous year and that it was produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The characters aren’t likeable, the story is painful, the acting is poor. There are very few funny moments and Rebel Wilson (the actually
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