TV

Arrow
5x15 Fighting Fire with Fire

Iron Fist
1x04 Eight Diagram Dragon Palm
1x05 Under Leaf Pluck Lotus
1x06 Immortal Emerges from Cave

Who Dares Wins
9x10 (18/3/17 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100 Films

A busy TV review this month on 100 Films in a Year...





Also, 3 brand-new reviews were published this week...


Ghostbusters (2016)

while parts are pretty funny, others are just as lazy as the trailer implied. Considering the volume of alternate lines included in the film’s special features, you have to wonder how some glaring duds, overfamiliar ‘jokes’, and flat-out clichés were left in. Of the lead cast, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, and Leslie Jones are all equally affected by this sometimes good / sometimes bad oscillation, though Chris Hemsworth as their pretty-but-dim receptionist manages to escape unscathed in a bubble of, if not hilarity, then definite amusement.

Read more here.


The Nice Guys (2016)

Writer-director Shane Black has been doing this kind of action-thriller buddy comedy for decades now, but he’s still got it where it counts — there are quotable lines galore, and visual gags that would be just as quotable if you could quote a visual.

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San Andreas (2015)

San Andreas is a most amusing movie. It’s not a comedy, just a generic effects-driven disaster movie in exactly the same style Hollywood has been producing for about 20 years.

Read more here.


Finally, the penultimate part of my new 100 Favourites series counted down #30 to #11...





More next Sunday.