@RedWhippet Python’s back catalogue is a bit like ours. Supreme highs and so many lows. A lot of their stuff was dreadful but when they got it right, they were the best.
Have you been through The Goons radio programs? Python origins and equally up and down.
Looks as though most the blockbuster films this year are going to be carry on repeats, Fast X…Magic Mike 3, Scream VI, Creed 3 (one I’m probably looking forward to the most as well as the new Mission Impossible) etc.
Also Plane coming out this Friday with Butler and Colter, probably be average at best but some of my favourite films have come from action thrillers which’ve taken place on planes.
Meaning of Life is inconsistent, much like Flying Circus, but had many moments of quality. The Crimson Permanent Insurance is up there with Gilliams best contributions to Python, Christmas in Heaven is good fun,and throughout the film there are little gems. Saying, in the most ludicrous French accent possible, “a wafer thin mint” will always tickle me. There definitely are moments throughtout the film where they would have benefited from some restraint, but its worth a watch.
Renfield is a film that promises to very interesting. Hopefully it fulfils its promise, but if it doesnt it’ll bad in a very fun way. Guarenteed to be a memorable watch either way.
Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dogtooth, The Favourite) has a film slated to come out this year called Poor Things. If his previous work is anything to go by it’ll be worth a watch.
Beyond that I have no idea what is slated to come out this year.
Even Renfield is a turn to familiar IP rather than creating something new. Universal has felt very left out in the cold due to their lack of superhero IP and has tried to use the various classic monsters to fill that gap for them. It’s failed miserably so far in terms of the individual films’ successes and their ability to a launch a shared universe. Renfield is their new twist on the approach - using the monster as a sidebar in a dark comedy. If the film works, expect more films like this. I suspect the idea will get old very quickly, but am still hopeful the film itself can be worthwhile.
Just watched that again and I too was in tears. That has to be one of the funniest sketches ever…I was a student in the days of MP and it was always the main topic of conversation next day. It really broke the mould of comedy at the time.
Finally got round to watching Ad Astra….aaaaaand boy was this disappointing.
Human flesh eating monkeys in space?
1hr and 50 mins of the film time it takes him to go from Earth to Neptune via Mars (for a little debrief and recording some messages over and over whatever shit he was doing) and then getting back to Earth from Neptune after “completing” his mission yeah no problem we’ll av ya picked up in 10.
I watched The Menu lastnight,from the very little I’d seen or heard of it,i just thought it was going to be a film on the workings of a Michelin starred chef in his kitchen,how wrong was i lol not what i was expecting at all,i thought it was a very good film.
Why not use West Ham’s old ground as a shoot out site for terrorists…that’s probably as good as it was for anyway….bit of a shame to see Pierce Brosnan’s gone from the heights of bond to pulling the trigger with the gun in his mouth
Every Breathe You Take
Talented cast but even as a viewer its hard to ignore the stupidity and sillyness of the screenwriting.
Went to my local cinema today, after many years of not having one in my local town.
Saw ’ A Man Called Otto’. First time in years I had a good cry watching the film. A kind a heartbreaking, but heart-warming film. It makes you still believe there are good people in the world that still care for their neighbours and local comnunity. Very endearing and well worth a watch, especially the funny supporting characters.
