About Sam S-P
Writer and film fanatic fond of black comedies, sci-fi, animation and films about dysfunctional families.
I think I might have mentioned this before, but I’ve never really been that into GHOSTBUSTERS. Paul Feig’s new take has nods to the original and cameos, but otherwise strikes out on its own and largely it’s a successful venture. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Annie Potts, Bill Murray, Chris Hemsworth, Comedy, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Fall Out Boy, Film, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Justice League, Kate McKinnon, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Movies, Neil Casey, Paul Feig, Ray Parker Jr, Sigourney Weaver, Sony, Steve Higgins, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Force Awakens, Zach Woods
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Just in time for the remake to hit the screen, I have a confession to make…I can take or leave the original GHOSTBUSTERS. I can understand people liking it – the characters are good, it’s pretty funny – but loving … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ben-Hur, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Film, Ghostbusters, Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman, Lawrence of Arabia, Movies, Sigourney Weaver
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The fashion industry really is taking a kicking from film this year. Far from the silly and playful taunts in ZOOLANDER 2 and ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS, now Nicolas Winding Refn goes for the jugular with THE NEON DEMON. Being a Nicolas … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abby Lee, Absolutely Fabulous, Alessandro Nivola, Bella Heathcote, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Christina Hendricks, Cliff Martinez, Desmond Harrington, Drive, Elle Fanning, Film, Horror, Jena Malone, Keanu Reeves, Movies, Natasha Braier, Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, Roger Ebert, Russ Meyer, Ryan Gosling, The Neon Demon, Zoolander 2
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I never thought I’d say this, but thank God for the already-infamous elephant scene. More on that later. The only reason that GRIMSBY isn’t a worse 2016 comedy than Adam Sandler’s THE DO-OVER is that I laughed a couple of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adam Sandler, Basic Instinct, Borat, Brüno, Comedy, Daniel Radcliffe, Donald Trump, Film, Grimsby, Louis Leterrier, Mark Strong, Movies, Rebecca Front, Rebel Wilson, Ricky Tomlinson, Sacha Baron Cohen, The Dictator, The Do-Over, The Royle Family
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13 HOURS is supposedly Michael Bay being serious, talking about a still-raw real-world event, namely the aftermath of The Arab Spring uprisings in Libya. Yet we still have a character saying of a neutralised weapons smuggler:”We gotta find his stash … Continue reading →
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Tagged 13 Hours, Chuck Hogan, Drama, Film, James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, Lorne Balfe, Megan Fox, Michael Bay, Movies, Thriller, Transformers
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I wanted Roland Emmerich to bring his unique brand of big, dumb action back to the big screen in 2016. By golly does he deliver it with INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE. He also brings painful scripting (courtesy of four writers, no … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bill Pullman, Blockbuster, Brent Spiner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dean Devlin, Film, Independence Day, Independence Day: Resurgence, Jeff Goldblum, Jesse T Usher, Judd Hirsch, Liam Hemsworth, Maika Monroe, Michael Bay, Movies, Roland Emmerich, Sci-fi, Will Smith, Zack Snyder
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Well file this one comfortably (or uncomfortably) under “flawed but fascinating”. THE LOBSTER is a symphony to loneliness, an essay to alienation. It constructs a bizarre and jarring world inhabited by the miserable and the hollow, then asks you to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ben Whishaw, Black Comedy, Colin Farrell, Film, Michael Smiley, Movies, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Sci-fi, The Lobster, The Survivalist, Yorgos Lanthimos
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Just in case you’re reading this in a country the BBC doesn’t directly beam its content to, DAD’S ARMY was a British sitcom that broadcast from the late 1960s to the late 1970s that followed an incompetent platoon of WWII … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alison Steadman, Arthur Lowe, BBC, Bill Nighy, Comedy, Dad's Army, Felicity Montagu, John Le Mesurier, Sarah Lancashire, Toby Jones, Tom Courtenay, TV
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Roland Emmerich really does turn massive-scale destruction into an art form. Michael Bay can make things go boom then throw them at you while juggling the camera, but Emmerich really seems to relish his careful construction of sequences and giving … Continue reading →
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Tagged 10000 BC, Bill Pullman, Blockbuster, Disaster Movie, Film, Independence Day, Independence Day: Resurgence, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Jurassic Park, Michael Bay, Movies, Pan's Labyrinth, Randy Quaid, Roland Emmerich, Sci-fi, Vivica A Fox, Will Smith
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Watch THE NICE GUYS for a wonderfully shambolic Ryan Gosling teaming up with Russell Crowe playing a tank in a leather jacket. Remember it for Shane Black’s unique and sharply self-aware take on film noir. Black has been Hollywood’s go-to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Angourie Rice, Black Comedy, Chinatown, Drive, Film, Film noir, Get Carter, Half Nelson, Iron Man 3, Keith David, Kim Basinger, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Movies, Mystery, Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Shane Black, The Long Goodbye, The Nice Guys, Ty Simpkins
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