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A Date for Mad Mary (2016)
Learning to let go of your safety net
The story to some extent is as simple as someone coming out of jail and finding out her friends have moved on and developed without her and her coming to terms with that.
The search for a date is simply a way of showing her alienation and her fear of making new connections when her old ones lie broken.
The acting is low key and first rate.
Thoroughly enjoyed this movie, but in a melancholy way.
Knights of Badassdom (2013)
A list actors enjoying hamming it up in a B- movie
This is definitely a B- movie. But it has an A list cast and a genuinely funny, bad it is so good, script. Just sit back and enjoy it for what it is. A list actors hamming it up in a B- movie.
The rest of my review is to meet IMDb's 5 line minimum review. They obviously did not get the less is more snapchat (I would have said memo, but I don't think people do those now. I think it is all snapchat, whatsapp or periscope now. Those have probably gone the way of friends reunited and MySpace in the time it has taken you to read this.)
Fun movie, watch it. Fills in some time between birth and death when you are not too busy being awesome.
Oasis (2017)
Shows great promise
Excellent ensemble cast. I may be biased, as Brit heavy. I hope the pilot is taken up as I was definitely hooked. Amazon (and other non- traditional media companies) deserve praise for piloting new shows like this. I loved Preacher, The Man in the High Castle , UnReal etc. This could be another Westworld slow burn.
High-Rise (2015)
It deserves to be a cult classic
I had very low expectations about this film. Having read some very negative reviews. But from the start it captured my imagination. In the first five minutes it painted a flawed utopia. One criticism would be the foretelling of the fall. I would much rather have it start with Dr Laing starting a new life, full of hope, in his new high rise. As high rises were seen in the 1950s. Everything about them then was about modernity and hope.
I loved the aesthetic, setting it in a future past.
Really enjoyed this film. I recommend it to anyone that enjoyed classics from the past like Seconds, The Swimmer, A Clockwork Orange and Faranheit 451