With The Disaster Artist just around the corner, I thought that I’d jump on the bandwagon and watch Tommy Wiseau’s infamous “Citizen Kane of bad movies”, a… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Room” (2003)”
Month: November 2017
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Suburbicon” (2017)
Directed by Jurj Clooners George Clooney and with a script from Grant Heslov, the Coen Brothers and Clooney himself, the fifties-set Suburbicon takes place in a seemingly perfect American… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Suburbicon” (2017)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Battle of the Sexes” (2017)
2017’s Battle of the Sexes stars Emma Stone as tennis champion Billie Jean King who, after discovering that the World Lawn Tennis Association will be paying the men’s champion… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Battle of the Sexes” (2017)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Ingrid Goes West” (2017)
Premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, first time director Matt Spicer’s film is about damaged young Instagram addict Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) who, after a brief… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Ingrid Goes West” (2017)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Brigsby Bear” (2017)
Written by and starring Kyle Mooney, Brigsby Bear begins in an underground bunker of sorts, where James Pope (Mooney) lives with Ted and April (Mark Hamill and Jane Adams)… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Brigsby Bear” (2017)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Justice League” (2017)
Following a run of critically battered films, as well as one universally praised outing, the DC Extended Universe brings together several iconic superheroes as Superman, Batman, Wonder… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Justice League” (2017)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Only the Brave” (2017)
Based on an article which originally appeared in GQ Magazine, Only the Brave is based around true events and tells the story of an elite team of Arizona firefighters,… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Only the Brave” (2017)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (2017)
Written and directed by The Lobster‘s Yorgos Lanthimos, The Killing of a Sacred Deer stars Colin Farrell as successful cardiologist Steven Murphy who befriends the troubled Martin (Barry Keoghan), whose… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (2017)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017)
Contains Potential Spoilers (never can be too sure!) Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 adaptation of the popular Agatha Christie novel follows legendary detective Hercule Poirot (Branagh) as he makes… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017)”
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