Reviews by KarenFilm following on from the TV series with Eddie and Patsy. Probably funniest if you are already familiAr with he whole series and the characters.
Eddie wants to get Kate Moss to join her PR company, bit things aren’t as simple as she hoped and she and Patsy need to go on the run to the south of France and try to get rid.
8/10
This is is the sequal to Independence Day and is set 20 years later. It includes a number of returning characters with all but the children from the first film played by the same actors. As a result you get to see what happened to the surviving characters in the intervening years and how the events affected them and others who weren’t in the first film.
Lots of special effects and some humour but a lot of jumping around the characters stories for a lot of the film.
7/10
This is a film adaptation of a little known Jane Austen story featuring the biggest flirt in England Lady Susan. It is quite funny particularly any scene with Sir James Martin whose naivety and innocence of what is going on is very amusing.
6/10
Tom Hanks is Alan Clay an IT salesman who is trying to get the King of Saudi Arabia to buy one of his company’s holographic teleconferencing system. He is sent to Saudi Arabia, but faces a number of obstacles before he can even meet the king.
5/10
Florence Foster Jenkins believes she is a great singer, largely due to her husband St Clair Bayfield humouring her by ensuring she only sings in front of their ‘music lover’ friends or critics who he bribes to write good reviews. She chooses a new pianist Cosme who helps keep up the charade until she secretly arranges to sing at Carnegie hall whilst St Clair is away with his girlfriend and she eventually sees a negative review.
8/10
This is a done war thriller looking at whether it is better to risk ‘collateral’ damage to potentially save many and how difficult it is to make such decisions.
The UK is leading a drone investigation in Kenya with the US to try to catch terrorists, when they discover the terrorists are preparing an imminent suicide mission they must decide what to do.
The end credits include a dedication in memory of Alan Rickman.
7/10
Weird US sci-fi drama where a man goes on the run with his 8 year old son from a cult along with the boys mother and the man’s childhood best friend. The cult worship the boy due to his special powers and the FBI are chasing them as the boy knows secret information.
The parents and their friend want to get the boy back to his own kind and need to work out who they can and cannot trust.
4/10
Feel good movie about the story of Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards’s fight to fulfil his dream of becoming an Olympian, including fighting prejudice against his motives and background, culminating in the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988 where he showed that winning isn’t everything.
10/10
Staring – Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frames McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum
This Cohen brothers comedy is set in a fictional 1950s Hollywood. Eddie Mannix is a ‘fixer’ who tries to manage and scandals about the stars at his studios. He has to deal with a secret pregnancy, same sex relationships and a communist cell of blacklisted writes who are trying to recruit the stars.
6/10
Staring – Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt
This is a film based on the true stories of a number of people who guessed that the global financial crisis would happen (something related to people defaulting on mortgages) and managed to make some money by betting that the banks had got it at wrong.
This was a confusing film that jumped around a lot between the different characters and seemly random celebrities popping up trying to provide explanations of what was going on
4/10