Writing's a fight and this boy needs a battle
Binged all four seasons. It’s interesting to watch the way multiple storylines are maintained and funnelled into a genuinely compelling resolution for individual seasons, while also keeping the story going across the entire show. Emotionally moving in a way other shows fail to find.
It’s hard not to view this kind of “underdog triumphs over adversity” sports film without comparing it to Rocky (1976), especially when it’s set in Philadelphia. Here an unknown Spanish street-player Bo Cruz (Juancho Hernangomez) is brought to America by international scout Stanley Sugerman (Adam Sandler) to tryout for Philadelphia 76ers. Switch the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps for Manayunk Wall, a super steep hill, and you get the training plan. Peppered with real basketball talent, this has enough charm to keep even a “refuses to watch sport of any kind” person like me watching.
There’s a certain excitement in discovering the folklore of another culture. In this case the mythology of Poland. Mix that with the energy of a noir mystery and you’ll keep watching til the end.
In a future where it’s commonplace to regenerate, death and its incumbent life, brings all kinds of new meanings. Smarter than your usual crime thriller because the questions it’s dealing with are so primal. What gives life meaning when your 159?
It’s unwieldy two hours six minutes long, with far too few jokes to fill it. David Mamet’s State and Main (2000) is a more intelligent dig at the industry and its conceits.
The train, 1029 cars long, keeps rolling as life and love and the two factions of Snowpierce battle to survive. Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) and Andre (Daveed Diggs) force the factions to choose.
Time travelling adventure story that plays to Ryan Reynolds smart mouth, and the emotional complexity of its 12 rating.
A ragtag crew of Swedish soldiers are ordered to skate a hundred miles across the frozen sea-ice, to deliver two canisters that could end their civil war. It’s a well paced icy adventure told with haunting visuals.
Korean zombies have a certain infected joy about them, flinging themselves teeth first at the living, as high school students become ground zero for the zombie-apocalypse.
Eleventh century conflicts between christian and pagan, Norway and England, take centre stage. Eight episode feels short buts sets the stage with a chess board of compelling characters.
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