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  ‘Well I’m not trying to land him, I’m just using him for sex.’ – Vivian Pretty Woman is one of those films that I was vaguely aware off but know nothing about it other than it’s supposed to be good. And after watching it, I’ve concluded that good is an understatement when describing the film’s effortless cool charm. The 1990 romantic comedy film follows fledgling prostitute Vivian Ward as she spends time with businessman Edward Lewis and struggles to keep things professional. Julia Roberts took on this role in the beginning years of her acting career and, similarly to Vivian, was still finding her feet. Vivian still finding her feet in her promiscuous job made her the best person to spend the weekend with Edward as anyone else with more experience would probably think twice about his proposition. Vivian isn’t even confident about what her nightly rates should be having to ask her friend Kitty how much she should charge, let along if it's a good idea to spend the weekend wit...

                         ‘How you fuck a witch without a condom?’ – Marcus Burnett After 25 years of working together as detectives in Miami, Mike Lowrey feels as young as ever but his partner in crime Marcus Burnett is ready to retire. But with people out to kill Mike the duo work with special department, Advanced Miami Metro Operations (AMMO) to bring them down. The Bad Boys and their supporting cast needed time to warm up. The beginning lines weren’t delivered well nor was the acting convincing. Reggie sounded so nervous delivering his lines. I know Marcus and Mike intimidated you before Reggie but you should be over that by now. Although the two bad boys did snap out of it their crew in AMMO never fully developed. Vanessa Hudgens needed to be written more lines because Kelly continually shaking her head in response to Lowrey as gun shots rang around her wasn’t good enough for me. Rafe being a douche to Mike for no ...

  After being out of reach for Americans for one year, The Office (US  ) is now available for Americans through NBC owned streaming service Peacock. Based on Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s short lived British original , the mockumentary style show is centred around colleagues at Dunder Miflin Paper Company and all their office antics, spearheaded by their loveable but unqualified manager Michael Scott.  Each character having their own quirks is one the many things that has allowed the US version to out live its inspiration and have a large cult following since its inception. Every aspect of the show is well thought out and laugh out loud funny. The details they choose to remember and emphasise are ones that we are accustomed to other shows forgetting. Casually, Meredith mentions that her son Jake has a face tattoo in season eight and this detail is remembered for the rest of his scattered appearances on the show. This is a detail that may not have been notic...

  ‘Let’s disagree to agree because quotes are my thing.’ - Rodrigo I miss John Cena. I miss watching him in the ring or cutting promo and I don’t even watch the WWE religiously anymore. I’ll read one headline every once in a while, that makes we question that company that I used to love dearly, but I still want to see John in the ring. Right now, as many before him, Cena is trying to be a superstar on the silver screen.   His latest role is smoke jumper Superintendent Jake “Supe” Carson in Nickelodeon’s Playing with Fire. When putting out a cabin fire Carson rescues three siblings. But when a flood arrives and their parents can’t come pick them up, Jake and his fire team must navigate having three rowdy children in their depot. The trailer showcased Carson’s action hero team of smoke jumpers and although it didn't strike me as nothing new, it still seemed entertaining, and at times it was. Keegan – Michael Key from Key & Peele fame was the main proponent of comed...

‘All that means is that it wasn’t personal to you. But it was personal for me.’ – Kathleen Kelly The supposed romcom You’ve Got Mail does nothing particularly well as it attempts to show how romance is affected by the digital age. While online Kathleen Kelly and Joe Fox are steadily falling in love, offline they become rivals as Fox’s superstore threatens the success of Kathleen’s independent book shop. We’re introduced to the two stars as they are effectively cheating on their real-life partners as they secretly email each other. Though this is something they should be scolded for, it’s hard to sympathise with their respective partners as they show little to no personality. By the time Patricia unleashes her obnoxious side, it’s too late to garner any negative feelings to her character because it’s easy to figure out that we won’t be seeing much of her soon. Even Frank who has much more screen time and whose over valuation of his writing career was a fun element, ...

‘not every situation calls for your patented approach of "shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more and then when everybody's dead try to ask a question or two." – President Grant In the run up to release of the live action remake of Aladdin in which Will Smith played Genie, the rapper turned actor constantly slated Wild Wild West , stating that despite the potential the film had and how much he promoted it he regards it as one of his worst films. Having only watched the film once before when I was probably too young to do so, I knew little about the Western yet hearing Smith constantly talk negatively of it intrigued me. So, when Comedy Central showed the film I thought I’d take the opportunity to watch it and see if it’s as bad Smith portrays it.   He’s not entirely wrong. The film chooses to use smoke and explosions as a way to move from one scene to the next instead of finding a logical way for the reluctant pair of U.S Marshals Jim West and Artemus G...

‘Well I’m going to heaven lieutenant Dan’ – Forrest Gump The innocent Forrest Gump is loveable from the start. The 1994 film adaption of the Winston Groom novel of the same name tells the story of Forrest Gump, played by Tom Hanks, who was born with a curved spine as he navigates through life. Forrest has an admirable drive and focus on everything he does which enabled him to succeed in each of his new endeavours, all of which have a surprising historical impact. He literally does everything he is told or whatever his heart desires, such as drinking an abundance of Dr Pepper. When explaining himself he simply states, ‘stupid is as stupid does.’ He has the same dedication in maintaining his relationships with both friends and family particularly Jenny(Robin Wright) whom he loves but she spends the film struggling to find herself. Her adventures are more varied and less successful than Forrest’s, they even push her to the edge but still Forrest remains committed to thei...

‘The hesitation in your voice, soon to be an echo in the recess in the spheres of retail’ Miss Luckmoore The new comedy/horror both written and directed by Peter Stirckland quickly loses momentum. Sheila goes to buy a dress in the sale to wear on her first date in a long time; however, the one of a kind dress she buys, creates nonstop problems for Shelia and all of its subsequent owners. In all honesty, I had completely forgotten the premise for the film, despite buying the ticket less than a week before I went to see it. Because of this I didn’t expect the comedy element of the film, so when many people I the audience were laughing I was confused, because not only did I fail to find large amounts of comedy in the film, I hadn’t expected it.   The main character that created comedy in the film was Miss Luckmoore, played by Fatma Mohamed, who spoke in a philosophical manner. Although most others found her funny, I found the way she spoke quite intense and mesmerisi...

‘successful people hate their admirers’ - Katherine Newbury Captivating from the start, the Mindy Kaling written and produced film, Late Night tells a good story while poking fun at many, if not all, of the social problems in the TV industry. Late Night sees Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) attempt to revitalise her late night show, that has been running for two decades, with a fresh writing perspective from inexperienced female writer Molly Patel (Mindy Kaling). Unfamiliar with Mindy Kaling’s work but well aware of her success on TV with her show the Mindy Project I was quite excited for her film writing debut. On Newbury’s redemption journey she is able to shine a light on the prominent issues of diversity in the workplace, the #metoo movement, slut shaming and even poking fun at the idea of a white saviour. The film is rather enjoyable as a story whether you look at it from the perspective of Kaling’s character or that of Thompson’s. This along with the well-...

‘ A woman doctor, impossible!’ Sherlock Holmes The comedic due from 2008 blockbuster ‘Step Brothers’ have returned a decade later and have once again brought their flare and charisma to the latest adaption of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most known and loved characters of Sherlock Holmes (Will Ferrell) and Doctor John Watson (John C. Reilly).   I use the word adaption loosely as its clear that the focus of this American version of Conan Doyle’s characters is to make fun of old-fashioned ways of thinking whilst simultaneously critiquing current affairs. This was well done in my opinion by both the screenwriter and director of the film Etan Cohen and charismatically brought to screen by Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. When watching the film I was really fascinated by how well the characters were brought to life and words on a page can result in such an hilarious result, by consequence I was more concerned with the behaviour of the titular characters than the actual storyline...

‘A him gets noticed, a her gets ignored and for once we want to be ignored.’ – Debbie Ocean A few months ago, I had binged watched Ocean’s 11, 12 & 13 and the franchise quickly rose and dropped from one of my favourites; however I was still more than intrigued to see the new sequel to the film. I must admit I’m not necessarily on board with the new idea of remaking films with an all female cast to create equality but as Ghostbusters (2016) was quite an entertaining film and the cast includes a plethora of notable women, I stilled wanted to see it.   The film was quite good, providing an unlikely group of con artists, continuously out smarting the audience and evoking at lot of laughter in the jam packed cinema. Regardless of gender Warner Bros. Pictures has been able to bring together a cast with a lot of star power to the screen and I liked seeing people like Mindy Kaling in somewhat of a different role. There were also many celebrity cameos that I feel really adde...

‘I just feel humiliation’ - Martin The Pascal Chaumeil directed adaption of Nick Hornby’s bestselling novel cuts out many details from the novel and causes the film to appear as an uncohesive work. When watching the 2014 adaption I was convinced that i was watching a badly edited version as the film skipped around so much and left out vital details like Jess’ relationship with her family or JJ’s reasons for wanting to kill himself. But at 1 hour and 30 minutes it was all there or I guess wasn’t. It appears that the writer, Jack Throne relied heavily on the fact that people would know the novel and just fill in the gaps, but despite knowing the story well myself I still felt that wasn’t clear. The film takes way the ability to emote with each character. Admittedly this is to be expected from films that traditionally aren’t told from more than perspective. The back-story of each character is briefly put on their car journey after coming down from the roof but it is develop...