TRAINWRECK
Directed by Judd Apatow
Screenplay by Amy Schumer
Starring Amy Schumer and Bill Hader
Amy is well, a trainwreck, a commitment-phobic career woman,who may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy.
The funniest film of the year so far hands down. At the same time there is a sweet love story mixed in with all the humor.
Schumer is fantastic as you would expect. Hader, fantastic also as you would expect. What is great is that there are sooo many comedic moments from other actors. Tilda Swinton is funny!!! Who would have thought??!! Then there are moments that surprise you like an hilarious sex scene with a bare ass John Cena. Lebron James with great comic timing and playing a cheap bastard!! A movie within a movie about dog walking!! Ezra Miller (Perks Of Being A Wallflower) another hilarious sex scene.
I could keep going but if I mention more of the funny parts I feel like I am spoiling the film.
Negatives? Well the film is much too long at 125 minutes. Also, it has a last act that is funny, however it did not seem to fit with the film. The film is soooo well written but the last 10 minutes did not seem believable, it was almost like they did not know how to close the film.
Well, they were just small negatives, 4 1/2 out of 5 stars for Trainwreck. Looking ahead at the releases coming up through the end of the year this looks like hands down to be the funniest film of the year.
MR HOLMES
Directed by Bill Condon
Screenplay by Mitch Cullin
Starring Ian McKellen; Laura Linney; and Milo Parker
The story is set in 1947, following a retired Holmes (McKellen) living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper Mrs. Munro (Linney) and rising detective son Roger (Parker). Holmes's memory isn't what it used to be, still, he is still haunted by an unsolved case, but he only remembers fragments of the case: a confrontation with an angry husband and his beautiful but unstable wife.
I will not talk about the case he is working on because I think that could be a spoiler. However I will touch on the film and it's view of the elderly Holmes.
There is a sadness in this film. Holmes is now elderly, and failing in health and mind, which as we all know his mind was always sharp. He is becoming unreliable to himself, which obviously frustrates him.
So, he lives a quiet life now. He tends to bees/honey while fighting Drs and fighting father time. He still wants to solve a case that is eating him up, but he cannot remember why. So now he realize on Roger and his sharp young mind to help him with his memory, as he tries to solve/grasp more about the mystery. As the film gets to the end we all see that solving mysteries while ignoring an emotional element, that Holmes was known for, may not resolve the whole problem.
Well McKellen will get an Oscar Nom I should think. Linney is so quiet and so patient and at the same time so hard as the Housekeeper. Then Milo Parker, he steals every scene he is in. His character worships Holmes and sometimes he just watches from a distance not saying a thing but saying so much. A very good film that seems to fly by at 105 minutes.
4 out of 5 stars for Mr. Holmes. An entirely different spin on Sherlock Holmes. As he pretty much says, Watson was full of crap in those books.
There were two other releases this week that I did not waste my time to review and they are Terminator Genisys...which was clearly a money grab by the studio using the Teminator name.
Self/less which is just okay but...odd. Boy Ryan Reynolds needs a hit fast!!
Well as always thanks for your time from the shadows.
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