BORED AND DANGEROUS

As in all Start Wars stories, the central story is a young upstart, separated from their family, who is the key to saving the Galaxy. This time it’s Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones). Years ago, her father (Mads Mikkelsen as Galen) was the key architect of the Death Star.Realising the devastation his invention will cause, he has chosen imprisonment at the hands of the Empire’s Orson Krennic (Ben

MUSIC REVIEW

I have spent the last couple of decades hating the music of Joni Mitchell. Well, more accurately, I have spent the last couple of decades assuming I hate the music of Joni Mitchell based on the one and only Joni Mitchell song I know, Big Yellow Taxi. That song boils my blood. It’s just so

MOVIE REVIEW

In a nutshell, Bored & Dangerous says: “I'd never say that The Unforgiven is a good movie. But I also can't say that I wasn't entertained by it.” “I've left my family. They've changed. Turned into Indian lovers; Injun lovers.” John Ford and John Wayne's The Searchers is widely recognised as

MUSIC REVIEW

It’s that sound that flows through the rest Songs From a Room and makes it work as a coherent whole. The Old Revolution, The Butcher and Lady Midnight be about different characters, but the sounds like their about different characters all from the same narrative universe. Over the course of 10 songs and a little over half an hour, Leonard Cohen and Songs From a Room build and populate a

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | Moby Dick (1956) In a nutshell, Bored & Dangerous says: “Even at just 38 years old, Gregory Peck had the gravitas to make Captain Ahab inspiring, threatening and terrifying.”. “To be enraged with a dumb brute that acted out of blind instinct is blasphemous.”. I rarely read more than one book at a time.

MOVIE REVIEW

Film maker’s telling truly personal stories can go one of two ways. When Scorsese gave us Mean Streets, we got a ground breaking, genre redefining classic that gave new meaning to the word ‘gritty’. Unfortunately , when Lawrence Kasdan did it, we got a naval gazing, self felating in-joke nostalgia fest. Even worse, it became

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | Quo Vadis (1951) “It is not enough to live well. One must die well.”. Mid 20 th century Hollywood loved an epic. Mid 20 th century Hollywood really loved a swords and sandals, biblical epic. Even if you didn’t have the big JC, a big JC like figure would do the trick. There’s a reason why the phrase ‘bigger than Ben Hur

MOVIE REVIEW

Whatever happened to Val Kilmer? In the 80s he was the dreamboat, all American looking alpha who stole every scene he shared with Tom Cruise in Top Gun. In the 90s he had a huge profile, lead role that I remember being highly acclaimed in Oliver Stone’s The Doors. Also in the 90s he made a pretty shit Batman movie. But he didn’t make the shitty Batman movie of the 90s. ***2015 RECAP*** MOVIE REVIEW “My father was beaten, my mother was beaten, and this man, my father's friend, he was beaten. And I watched this man. Every time they hit him, he stood back up again.” Before I started writing Bored and Dangerous, I was a little skeptical of Steven Spielberg. I

thought he

MOVIE REVIEW

Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, played by James Caan, is an ex high school basketball star and current terrible husband and father. With a two year old son and heavily pregnant wife, Janice (Carrie Snodgress), Rabbit is so overwhelmed, he runs and shacks up with a woman on the wrong side of the tracks, Ruth (Anjanette Comer).

BORED AND DANGEROUS

As in all Start Wars stories, the central story is a young upstart, separated from their family, who is the key to saving the Galaxy. This time it’s Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones). Years ago, her father (Mads Mikkelsen as Galen) was the key architect of the Death Star.Realising the devastation his invention will cause, he has chosen imprisonment at the hands of the Empire’s Orson Krennic (Ben

MUSIC REVIEW

I have spent the last couple of decades hating the music of Joni Mitchell. Well, more accurately, I have spent the last couple of decades assuming I hate the music of Joni Mitchell based on the one and only Joni Mitchell song I know, Big Yellow Taxi. That song boils my blood. It’s just so

MOVIE REVIEW

In a nutshell, Bored & Dangerous says: “I'd never say that The Unforgiven is a good movie. But I also can't say that I wasn't entertained by it.” “I've left my family. They've changed. Turned into Indian lovers; Injun lovers.” John Ford and John Wayne's The Searchers is widely recognised as

MUSIC REVIEW

It’s that sound that flows through the rest Songs From a Room and makes it work as a coherent whole. The Old Revolution, The Butcher and Lady Midnight be about different characters, but the sounds like their about different characters all from the same narrative universe. Over the course of 10 songs and a little over half an hour, Leonard Cohen and Songs From a Room build and populate a

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | Moby Dick (1956) In a nutshell, Bored & Dangerous says: “Even at just 38 years old, Gregory Peck had the gravitas to make Captain Ahab inspiring, threatening and terrifying.”. “To be enraged with a dumb brute that acted out of blind instinct is blasphemous.”. I rarely read more than one book at a time.

MOVIE REVIEW

Film maker’s telling truly personal stories can go one of two ways. When Scorsese gave us Mean Streets, we got a ground breaking, genre redefining classic that gave new meaning to the word ‘gritty’. Unfortunately , when Lawrence Kasdan did it, we got a naval gazing, self felating in-joke nostalgia fest. Even worse, it became

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | Quo Vadis (1951) “It is not enough to live well. One must die well.”. Mid 20 th century Hollywood loved an epic. Mid 20 th century Hollywood really loved a swords and sandals, biblical epic. Even if you didn’t have the big JC, a big JC like figure would do the trick. There’s a reason why the phrase ‘bigger than Ben Hur

MOVIE REVIEW

Whatever happened to Val Kilmer? In the 80s he was the dreamboat, all American looking alpha who stole every scene he shared with Tom Cruise in Top Gun. In the 90s he had a huge profile, lead role that I remember being highly acclaimed in Oliver Stone’s The Doors. Also in the 90s he made a pretty shit Batman movie. But he didn’t make the shitty Batman movie of the 90s. ***2015 RECAP*** MOVIE REVIEW “My father was beaten, my mother was beaten, and this man, my father's friend, he was beaten. And I watched this man. Every time they hit him, he stood back up again.” Before I started writing Bored and Dangerous, I was a little skeptical of Steven Spielberg. I

thought he

MOVIE REVIEW

Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, played by James Caan, is an ex high school basketball star and current terrible husband and father. With a two year old son and heavily pregnant wife, Janice (Carrie Snodgress), Rabbit is so overwhelmed, he runs and shacks up with a woman on the wrong side of the tracks, Ruth (Anjanette Comer).

MOVIE REVIEW

Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, played by James Caan, is an ex high school basketball star and current terrible husband and father.With a two year old son and heavily pregnant wife, Janice (Carrie Snodgress), Rabbit is so overwhelmed, he runs and shacks up with a woman on the wrong side of the tracks, Ruth (Anjanette Comer).

MOVIE REVIEW

According to its opening title card, Metropolitan is set, “Not so long ago”, but I have to think the world Stillman’s depicting is a little older than 1990. Kind of like how Wes Anderson movies are set in the present day, but everyone uses rotary phones and typewriters for some reason.Metropolitan

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | How the West Was Won (1962) “About 150 years ago, an idea took shape in the mind of a man named DeWitt Clinton. And in the way Americans have of acting out their dreams, it came to be.”. One of the biggest problems in big budget movies, is the tendency for studios to pile on more. More big name stars, mores special effects

MUSIC REVIEW

The Jesus and Mary Chain Another band that falls in under the same category for me as Husker Du, Fugazi and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Bands with amazing reputations and masses of credibility from the snobbiest of rock aficionados. Bands loved by plenty of people I know who’s opinions I trust. Bands who

MOVIE REVIEW

“Darling, forever is a long, long time, and time has a way of changing things.” By the 80s, Disney’s golden era of prestige animation was long, long gone. The glory days of things like Snow White and Cinderella were already close to half a century old. And the

rebirth of

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | ***SUNDAY FLASHBACK*** 12 Years a Slave (2013) In a nutshell, Bored & Dangerous says: “For all its harsh realism, it never let me forget I was watching a prestige movie.”. “I will not fall into despair! I will keep myself hardy until freedom is opportune!”. Slavery is bad, you guys.

MOVIE REVIEW

In 70s Boston, Whitey Bulger’s (Johnny Depp) Winter Hill Gang controls all of the crime the city’s south.When former local boy, now FBI agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) returns to town, he immediately tries to combine and exploit his childhood friendship with Bulger, Bulger’s brother Billy (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his role

within the FBI.

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | Colors (1988) “There’s two bulls standing on top of a mountain. The younger one says to the older one: Hey pop, let’s say we run down there and fuck one of them cows. The older one says: No son. Let’s walk down and fuck ’em all”. Dennis Hopper began

his

MOVIE REVIEW

The general plot, a couple of the more over the top moments, even specific lines of dialogue, there wasn’t really a single surprise. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t find it entertaining. It also doesn’t mean I think Fatal Attraction is a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. Fatal Attraction is pure trash, but it‘s well

MOVIE REVIEW

After auspicious beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century, the Australian film industry had all but disappeared by the 1920s. But half a century later, a renaissance occurred with the Australian New Wave of cinema. Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock marked the arrival of possibly Australia’s most successful film maker, and the

prestige

BORED AND DANGEROUS

As in all Start Wars stories, the central story is a young upstart, separated from their family, who is the key to saving the Galaxy. This time it’s Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones). Years ago, her father (Mads Mikkelsen as Galen) was the key architect of the Death Star.Realising the devastation his invention will cause, he has chosen imprisonment at the hands of the Empire’s Orson Krennic (Ben

MOVIE REVIEW

In a nutshell, Bored & Dangerous says: “I'd never say that The Unforgiven is a good movie. But I also can't say that I wasn't entertained by it.” “I've left my family. They've changed. Turned into Indian lovers; Injun lovers.” John Ford and John Wayne's The Searchers is widely recognised as

MUSIC REVIEW

I have spent the last couple of decades hating the music of Joni Mitchell. Well, more accurately, I have spent the last couple of decades assuming I hate the music of Joni Mitchell based on the one and only Joni Mitchell song I know, Big Yellow Taxi. That song boils my blood. It’s just so

MUSIC REVIEW

It’s that sound that flows through the rest Songs From a Room and makes it work as a coherent whole. The Old Revolution, The Butcher and Lady Midnight be about different characters, but the sounds like their about different characters all from the same narrative universe. Over the course of 10 songs and a little over half an hour, Leonard Cohen and Songs From a Room build and populate a

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | Moby Dick (1956) In a nutshell, Bored & Dangerous says: “Even at just 38 years old, Gregory Peck had the gravitas to make Captain Ahab inspiring, threatening and terrifying.”. “To be enraged with a dumb brute that acted out of blind instinct is blasphemous.”. I rarely read more than one book at a time.

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | Straight Outta Compton (2015) “Let me tell you what I see here: a lot of raw talent. Swagger. Bravado. People are scared of you guys. They think you’re dangerous, but the world needs to hear it.”. Walk Hard, the John C Reilly starring, Judd Apatow produced parody movie was a piss take of Walk the Line and Ray.

MOVIE REVIEW

Film maker’s telling truly personal stories can go one of two ways. When Scorsese gave us Mean Streets, we got a ground breaking, genre redefining classic that gave new meaning to the word ‘gritty’. Unfortunately , when Lawrence Kasdan did it, we got a naval gazing, self felating in-joke nostalgia fest. Even worse, it became

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | Quo Vadis (1951) “It is not enough to live well. One must die well.”. Mid 20 th century Hollywood loved an epic. Mid 20 th century Hollywood really loved a swords and sandals, biblical epic. Even if you didn’t have the big JC, a big JC like figure would do the trick. There’s a reason why the phrase ‘bigger than Ben Hur

MOVIE REVIEW

Whatever happened to Val Kilmer? In the 80s he was the dreamboat, all American looking alpha who stole every scene he shared with Tom Cruise in Top Gun. In the 90s he had a huge profile, lead role that I remember being highly acclaimed in Oliver Stone’s The Doors. Also in the 90s he made a pretty shit Batman movie. But he didn’t make the shitty Batman movie of the 90s. ***2015 RECAP*** MOVIE REVIEW “My father was beaten, my mother was beaten, and this man, my father's friend, he was beaten. And I watched this man. Every time they hit him, he stood back up again.” Before I started writing Bored and Dangerous, I was a little skeptical of Steven Spielberg. I

thought he

BORED AND DANGEROUS

As in all Start Wars stories, the central story is a young upstart, separated from their family, who is the key to saving the Galaxy. This time it’s Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones). Years ago, her father (Mads Mikkelsen as Galen) was the key architect of the Death Star.Realising the devastation his invention will cause, he has chosen imprisonment at the hands of the Empire’s Orson Krennic (Ben

MOVIE REVIEW

In a nutshell, Bored & Dangerous says: “I'd never say that The Unforgiven is a good movie. But I also can't say that I wasn't entertained by it.” “I've left my family. They've changed. Turned into Indian lovers; Injun lovers.” John Ford and John Wayne's The Searchers is widely recognised as

MUSIC REVIEW

I have spent the last couple of decades hating the music of Joni Mitchell. Well, more accurately, I have spent the last couple of decades assuming I hate the music of Joni Mitchell based on the one and only Joni Mitchell song I know, Big Yellow Taxi. That song boils my blood. It’s just so

MUSIC REVIEW

It’s that sound that flows through the rest Songs From a Room and makes it work as a coherent whole. The Old Revolution, The Butcher and Lady Midnight be about different characters, but the sounds like their about different characters all from the same narrative universe. Over the course of 10 songs and a little over half an hour, Leonard Cohen and Songs From a Room build and populate a

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | Moby Dick (1956) In a nutshell, Bored & Dangerous says: “Even at just 38 years old, Gregory Peck had the gravitas to make Captain Ahab inspiring, threatening and terrifying.”. “To be enraged with a dumb brute that acted out of blind instinct is blasphemous.”. I rarely read more than one book at a time.

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | Straight Outta Compton (2015) “Let me tell you what I see here: a lot of raw talent. Swagger. Bravado. People are scared of you guys. They think you’re dangerous, but the world needs to hear it.”. Walk Hard, the John C Reilly starring, Judd Apatow produced parody movie was a piss take of Walk the Line and Ray.

MOVIE REVIEW

Film maker’s telling truly personal stories can go one of two ways. When Scorsese gave us Mean Streets, we got a ground breaking, genre redefining classic that gave new meaning to the word ‘gritty’. Unfortunately , when Lawrence Kasdan did it, we got a naval gazing, self felating in-joke nostalgia fest. Even worse, it became

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | Quo Vadis (1951) “It is not enough to live well. One must die well.”. Mid 20 th century Hollywood loved an epic. Mid 20 th century Hollywood really loved a swords and sandals, biblical epic. Even if you didn’t have the big JC, a big JC like figure would do the trick. There’s a reason why the phrase ‘bigger than Ben Hur

MOVIE REVIEW

Whatever happened to Val Kilmer? In the 80s he was the dreamboat, all American looking alpha who stole every scene he shared with Tom Cruise in Top Gun. In the 90s he had a huge profile, lead role that I remember being highly acclaimed in Oliver Stone’s The Doors. Also in the 90s he made a pretty shit Batman movie. But he didn’t make the shitty Batman movie of the 90s. ***2015 RECAP*** MOVIE REVIEW “My father was beaten, my mother was beaten, and this man, my father's friend, he was beaten. And I watched this man. Every time they hit him, he stood back up again.” Before I started writing Bored and Dangerous, I was a little skeptical of Steven Spielberg. I

thought he

MOVIE REVIEW

In a nutshell, Bored & Dangerous says: “On a technical, film making level, The Lord of the Flies is inept, at best.” “We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English! And the English are best at everything!” Way past the average age for discovering this classic novel, I

MOVIE REVIEW

Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, played by James Caan, is an ex high school basketball star and current terrible husband and father.With a two year old son and heavily pregnant wife, Janice (Carrie Snodgress), Rabbit is so overwhelmed, he runs and shacks up with a woman on the wrong side of the tracks, Ruth (Anjanette Comer).

MOVIE REVIEW

According to its opening title card, Metropolitan is set, “Not so long ago”, but I have to think the world Stillman’s depicting is a little older than 1990. Kind of like how Wes Anderson movies are set in the present day, but everyone uses rotary phones and typewriters for some reason.Metropolitan

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | How the West Was Won (1962) “About 150 years ago, an idea took shape in the mind of a man named DeWitt Clinton. And in the way Americans have of acting out their dreams, it came to be.”. One of the biggest problems in big budget movies, is the tendency for studios to pile on more. More big name stars, mores special effects

MUSIC REVIEW

The Jesus and Mary Chain Another band that falls in under the same category for me as Husker Du, Fugazi and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Bands with amazing reputations and masses of credibility from the snobbiest of rock aficionados. Bands loved by plenty of people I know who’s opinions I trust. Bands who

MOVIE REVIEW

In 70s Boston, Whitey Bulger’s (Johnny Depp) Winter Hill Gang controls all of the crime the city’s south.When former local boy, now FBI agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) returns to town, he immediately tries to combine and exploit his childhood friendship with Bulger, Bulger’s brother Billy (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his role

within the FBI.

MOVIE REVIEW

“Darling, forever is a long, long time, and time has a way of changing things.” By the 80s, Disney’s golden era of prestige animation was long, long gone. The glory days of things like Snow White and Cinderella were already close to half a century old. And the

rebirth of

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | ***SUNDAY FLASHBACK*** 12 Years a Slave (2013) In a nutshell, Bored & Dangerous says: “For all its harsh realism, it never let me forget I was watching a prestige movie.”. “I will not fall into despair! I will keep myself hardy until freedom is opportune!”. Slavery is bad, you guys.

MOVIE REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW | Colors (1988) “There’s two bulls standing on top of a mountain. The younger one says to the older one: Hey pop, let’s say we run down there and fuck one of them cows. The older one says: No son. Let’s walk down and fuck ’em all”. Dennis Hopper began

his

MOVIE REVIEW

After auspicious beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century, the Australian film industry had all but disappeared by the 1920s. But half a century later, a renaissance occurred with the Australian New Wave of cinema. Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock marked the arrival of possibly Australia’s most successful film maker, and the

prestige

Skip to content

BORED AND DANGEROUS

* MOVIES & MUSIC * OLD & NEW *

Menu

* About

* Contact

Search for:

MOVIE REVIEW | ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016) June 23, 2017June 18, 2017

� 4 Comments

�

_IN A NUTSHELL, BORED & DANGEROUS SAYS:_ “Possibly the most interesting movie in the _Star Wars_ canon.” _“Make ten men feel like a hundred.”_ I’m a child of the 80s. The original Star Wars trilogy are three of the first movies I remember knowing and loving as a kid. I saw and hated the prequels, just like anyone of my generation should. And joined the same people in loving and praising the franchise’s return to form with The Force Awakens

.

Yet, for all of that, and despite the mostly good to great reviews for the series’ latest entry, I didn’t rush to immediately see that latest entry. But while  I might have been a bad _Star Wars_ nerd by so late to the party, but now that I’ve seen it,  I’m eagerly jumping on the bandwagon and adding to the praise for _Rogue One: A

Star Wars Story_.

As in all _Start Wars_ stories, the central story is a young upstart, separated from their family, who is the key to saving the Galaxy. This time it’s Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones). Years ago, her father (Mads Mikkelsen as Galen) was the key architect of the Death Star. Realising the devastation his invention will cause, he has chosen imprisonment at the hands of the Empire’s Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn

).

Before giving himself up, Galen managed to hide the young Jyn, who would go on to be raised as a badass by rebellion soldier Saw Gerrera

(Forest Whitaker

).

(more…)

MOVIE REVIEW | TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967) June 22, 2017June 18, 2017

� Leave a comment

�

_IN A NUTSHELL, BORED & DANGEROUS SAYS:_ “The real reason to check this movie out is the darkness and melancholy that’s oozing out of

the screen.”

_“Marriage is when the woman tells the man to take off his pajamas… and it’s because, she wants to send them to the

laundry.”_

I’m a big fan of Audrey Hepburn

.

But as I was getting ready to write this review, I realised that I’m a casual fan who only knows her from her most famous roles.  I’ve never dug all that deep into the Audrey Hepburn canon and am really only familiar with the iconic movies in her filmography, like Breakfast at Tiffany’s

_,

My Fair Lady, Roman Holiday _and Sabrina

_._

With those sorts of movies forming my opinion of Hepburn, combined with the schmaltzy artwork on the cover of the $3 DVD I bought, I thought I knew what I was in for with _Two for the Road._  I was

wrong.

Hepburn is Joanna Wallace, the well kept wife of Mark (Albert Finney), a rich and successful architect.  Their marriage is in trouble, and the pressures of their current road trip across Europe is only making things more precarious.  Cue a series of flash backs to different parts of their relationship, showing that this isn’t their first, or even second road trip in this part of the world.  Each flashback shows a different stage of their relationship, giving a thorough evolution to the viewer. (more…) MOVIE REVIEW | LOVING (2016) June 21, 2017June 18, 2017

� 2 Comments

�

_IN A NUTSHELL, BORED & DANGEROUS SAYS:_ “Breathes new life into the concept of the prestige, period piece biopic.” _“Tell the judge, I love my wife.”_ With Shotgun Stories

_,_

Jeff Nichols made a movie based on, “understandable antagonistic acts get the ball rolling, and they build so incrementally, that once guns are being shoved in people’s faces and the odd skull gets caved in, you’re totally on board.”  Mud made me describe it’s main, child character as, “a certain blend of innocence and naivety, while also coming off as someone who’s already been there, seen it all and has no time for your bullshit.”  And I described Midnight Special as, “sci-fi spectacle a Trojan horse for some really intimate, internal story telling”. What I’m getting at is, Jeff Nichols has shown a knack for making the sensational real, for using pulp hyperbole to sneak in characters of believable substance, and for using overblown genre tropes to tell stories of what real life is all about.  And it’s a knack that is evident again as Nichols takes on the prestige, period piece biopic, with _Loving._ (more…) MOVIE REVIEW| BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955) June 20, 2017June 18, 2017

� 4 Comments

�

_IN A NUTSHELL, BORED & DANGEROUS SAYS:_ “A compelling story, great acting, high drama, thrilling tension and a big payoff.” _“They’re gonna kill you with no hard feelings.”_ The top three highest grossing movies of last year were Captain

America: Civil War

_,

Finding Dory_ and _Zootopia._  Many film purists might find it disheartening that only one of the three was based on a totally new property, but I’m troubled by a different trend of modern movie making.  While _Finding Dory_ clocks in at an economical 97 minutes, _Captain America_ and _Zootopia _will respectively take up 147 and 108 minutes of your life.  Of the rest of the movies that round out the top 10, only one is under 100 minutes.  And that one is _The Secret Life of Pets, _so I’m sure even its scant 87 minutes feel like a lot

longer.

What I’m getting at is, most moves over 90 minutes don’t need to be.  Hardly any movie needs to break the two hour barrier.  But bigger budgets and bigger spectacles mean we are increasingly subjected to bigger ass aches as we are trapped in cinema seats for ever increasing amounts of time per movie.  But I have proof that you don’t always need a lot of time to fit in a lot of awesome.  You can have a compelling story, great acting, high drama, thrilling tension and a big payoff.  And you can have it all in 81 minutes, including credits, with _Bad Day at Back Rock._ (more…) MOVIE REVIEW | MOONLIGHT (2016) June 19, 2017June 18, 2017

� 2 Comments

�

_IN A NUTSHELL, BORED & DANGEROUS SAYS:_ “It’s a tough watch, but tough in the way that a movie with this sort of subject matter should

be.”

_“Running around, catching a lot of light. In moonlight, black boys

look blue.”_

Every year for at least the last five, I’ve made a point of watching every Academy Awards Best Picture nominee before the Oscars ceremony. I’m enough of a move nerd and read enough pop culture news that I usually have a good idea of what will make the list long before its official, and I usually have a good idea of what every movie is, who made them and who stars in them. This year, I was well and truly out of the loop, knowing close to nothing about several Oscar finalists.  Including _Moonlight_. Before watching it, all I knew about this movie I had gleaned from its provocative poster design, which created some strong preconceptions.  What _Moonlight_ delivered totally met and totally defied those preconceptions. (more…) MOVIE REVIEW | ARRIVAL (2016) February 9, 2017February 5, 2017

� 4 Comments

�

_IN A NUTSHELL, BORED & DANGEROUS SAYS:_ “_Arrival_ takes itself very seriously.  _Arrival_ tells an insane story.  What _Arrival_ forgets to do is have fun with it.” _“Memory is a strange thing.”_ The academy awards have often been accused of being elitist. Only awarding highbrow, often little seen movies, so voters can feel smart. One of the reasons the Best Picture category was opened up a few years ago to include up to 10 movies was so more crowd friendly, box office hits could be included, instead of exclusively recognising prestige, “important” movies. Last year was an example of that system working, with fun, genre escapism being nominated in the form of _Mad Max: Fury Road

_and _The Martian

_.

This year, the genre, blockbuster slot is filled by a far less worthy recipient, _Arrival_. When giant, alien spacecraft appear in a dozen different places all over the globe, world leaders freak out as they try to determine if these visitors come in peace, or if they have something more threatening in mind.  Recruiting college professor and linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams

),

the American government makes contact with the seven limbed aliens they dub heptapods. Communication and translation proves to be a slow process, but piece by piece, Louise, along with physicist Ian Donnelly

(Jeremy Renner

),

builds a rapport with extra-terrestrial visitors. (more…) MOVIE REVIEW | MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2016) February 7, 2017February 5, 2017

� Leave a comment

�

_IN A NUTSHELL, BORED & DANGEROUS SAYS:_ “I never once wondered why critics have been praising this movie as much as they have for an

entire year.”

_“I said a lot of terrible things to you, my heart was broken, but I know yours was broken too.”_ It might be hard to remember now, but there once was a time when _La

La Land

_

wasn’t talked about as the clear front runner for every Oscar up for grabs this year, and probably even somehow retroactively winning a few from years gone by.  Yep, before it broke the record for most Golden Globe wins and topped the list for most number of Academy Award nominations this year, there was another movie that was getting all the Oscar buzz.  From this time last year when it showed at Sundance, to when it was eclipsed by _La La Land_ a month or three ago_, Manchester By the Sea_ was the belle of the Oscar speculation ball. Now that I’ve seen both movies, the concept of somehow comparing the two to decide which is better seems kind of absurd. Sad sack Boston janitor Lee (Casey Affleck

)

goes about his days unclogging toilets, shovelling snow and dealing with one annoying tenant after another.  It’s clear that Lee isn’t happy. He gets even less happy when he receives a call alerting him to his brothers’ (Kyle Chandler as Joe) death an hour and half away in the seaside, New England town of Manchester.  In and out of hospital for years with a heart condition, Joe’s death isn’t a surprise to Lee, what is a surprise is Joe’s will, announcing that Lee is now the legal guardian of Joe’s 16 year old son, Patrick (Lucas Hedges). (more…)

Page1 Page2 …

Page256 Next

→

Blog at WordPress.com.

Bored and Dangerous

Blog at WordPress.com.

Post to

Cancel

* Follow

*

* Bored and Dangerous

* Customize

* Follow

* Sign up

* Log in

* Report this content * Manage subscriptions

* Collapse this bar