As well as that, seven new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week...
The Hunger Games (2012)
Seen by some as a Battle Royale rip-off and by others as no more than the new Twilight, The Hunger Games is different enough from its Japanese forebear and immeasurably better than that detestable cross-media abstinence-fest.
Read more here.
Iron Sky (2012)
Throw in a moderately witty spoof of the Downfall-based Hitler YouTube meme, and moderately audacious elements like the Nazis turning a black astronaut white as part of their new attitude to racial purity, and you have a film that is moderately successful on its own terms.
Read more here.
Johnny English Reborn (2011)
Perhaps the best word to describe it would be “sedate”. Even the action sequences, of which there are a couple, can’t muster much speed, let alone jeopardy.
Read more here.
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (2009)
it was shot in 2009 but not released until 2011, when it was slated by critics (a measly 39% on Rotten Tomatoes), flopped at the US box office (it opened at an unimaginably painful 67th place (who knew there were that many films out at once?), grossing just $25,423 total), and went straight to DVD in the UK. Ouch.
Read more here.
Tom Conway as the Falcon, Part I
Featuring reviews of The Falcon's Brother, The Falcon Strikes Back, and The Falcon in Danger.
Read more here.
And finally, new to the new blog...
Johnny English (2003)
Every joke is sign-posted at least a good few seconds in advance, sometimes several minutes, yet that’s half the fun — you know what’s about to go wrong and that nothing can stop English doing it anyway.
Read more here.
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
it’s tempting to say Sunset Blvd. is overrated. But really that would be a slightly sensational way of saying I’m not entirely sure what to make of it.
Read more here.
More next Sunday.
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