Sunday 29 June 2014

TV

Brooklyn Nine-Nine
1x22 Charges and Specs [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

Celebrity Fifteen to One
1x04 (27/6/2014 edition) [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

Mad Men
7x05 The Runaways

Films

Modern Times (1936)
[#55 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2014 #6

this week on 100 Films

No brand-new reviews on 100 Films in a Year this week, but there were two new to the new blog...


Hard Candy (2005)
The viewer’s never quite sure of any fact about either of the two characters; never quite sure if they’re being genuine or at any moment will undermine their present emotion with the revelation it’s just an act, an attempt to fool the other.
Read more here.


The Invasion (2007)
Much of the dialogue is on the level of bad exposition, but, to rub salt in the wound, it explains things we’ve already been shown. Normally reliable actors turn in flat performances with such an awkward script, which ponderously works its way through a plot that’s far too slow-moving considering how obvious it is.
Read more here.


More next Sunday.