Bad Apples: Finally A Good Dark Comedy

Summary: Dark comedies are notoriously hard to do, either the film is too dark and becomes a drama or it takes things into a silly direction. This film manages to have both darker moments, the kidnapping of a child, but also make it not as depressing as that premise sounds.

The film is sometimes overtly funny and asks you to laugh at some quite messed up things, but Saoirse Ronan does a good job in being both funny but also clearly warped by what she is doing. She doesn’t turn it into just a silly goof and that’s important.

The main issue with the film is that it does not know when to end and has a habit of staying past its welcome.

Overall, a funny dark comedy film.

4/5

Ronan

It’s funny

It gets the tone right

There are some great WTF moments

Cons.

It overstays it’s welcome

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Colony: 28 Days Too Late

Summary: a bioweapon is unleashed in a shopping centre turning people into hive mind zombies.

So this film was quite the disappointment, Train to Buscan is a good film and even it’s sequel had some merits but this film just feels flat. It feels like a tried rehash of so many other zombie films.

The pacing is also quite brutal, on at over 2 hours a lot of this is needless talking and plots about backstabbing. There are times when you just wish the film would hurry up, but it doesn’t.

Overall, a slog that shows that maybe zombies are played out.

2/5

Pros.

It’s got some good action

The hive mind aspect is interesting

Cons.

It’s badly paced

It feels done before

The ending

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Kiki’s Delivery Service: The Heart Of Ghibli

Summary: a young witch begins delivering parcels.

On the site we have covered a number of Ghibli films and whilst other writers have said what their favourites are, for this writer this is a timeless classic.

This is something so warming and wholesome about this film, there is no grand stakes or major villains, but there is a story about self belief and leaning to believe in yourself.

There is a slightly off note quality to the film which is in a lot of Ghibli films and the idea that there is something darker going on beyond the surface of the film, this harms the film. However the broader wholesome elements really help to balance it out.

The animation is of course beautiful and the European influence helps to give this film a distinct sense of identity.

Overall, a wonderful film and possibly one of Ghibli’s best.

4.5/5

Pros.

The charm and wholesomeness

The beautiful animation

The pacing

The music

The European influence

Cons.

The darker undercurrent

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I Want Your Sex: Laughing At Victims Of Sexual Abuse

Summary: Harvey Whinstein but a woman.

So whilst there are a few funny moments in the film, and the anti woke commentary is pretty on point there is a massive glaring issue with the film.

Olivia Wilde’s character is a rapist, she records the guy without his consent, pushes him into sexual situations he doesn’t want to be in and does sexual things to him he doesn’t want. Yet at the end of the film rather than having her go to prison, the victim is shown to still be pining for her.

Once again abuse against men is turned into a joke and not a serious problem. Ask yourself if this was a film about a man doing this to a woman would it either a get made or b not be immediately cancelled.

The film is also needlessly graphic and at times it will make you deeply uncomfortable so be prepared for that.

Overall, a film that laughs at male sexual abuse.

1/5

Pros.

The anti woke commentary

Cons.

Laughing at male abuse

Having Wilde’s character get away with it

The graphic nature of it

The pacing

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Tony: One of the Most Unlikable People Possibly Ever

Summary: Anthony Bourdain estate never should have signed off on this.

So Anthony lies to almost everyone he knows constantly, he up and abandons his family to worry for a whole summer, he lies repeatedly to sleep with a girl and he causes a fire that destroys his mentors business and in the end he considers, but doesn’t, robbing said mentor. If this was true to life then there is not much you can do about it, however if this is an artistic flourish then the estate should have never let this film be made.

That is the fundamental issue with this film, why would you care about anything that happens when the character is so darn unlikable, you don’t. That is the crux of an issue the film simply cannot recover from.

Overall, a film that falls apart as you hate the lead character.

2/5

Banderas

There is some fun to be had

Cons.

Anthony is just awful

You don’t go along for the journey as the character is so unlikeable

The ending feels too convenient

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The Death Of Robin Hood: The Slowest Film Of The Year

Summary: Robin Hood is sad then he dies.

We all seen this before, we all watched Logan but rather than having great action this film is more into feelings, pacifism and being sad.

The first half of the film starts off interesting with Robin Hood still being this brutal outlaw, but then he gets beaten up and almost dies and from there it’s all about being sorry for your past and trying to make amends.

In many ways the trailers were quite deceptive promising something more akin to the Norseman when this is very much not that.

Overall, an average film made worse by dreadful pacing.

2/5

Pros

Great look and setting

Some good action early on

Cons.

The pacing

The ending

The lack of any action after the halfway point

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Insidious Out of The Further: A Failure To Commit

Summary: a woman has the power to bring the demons and ghosts out of the further and is then targeted by said demons and ghosts.

This film had promise, were the old people scary no, was the new cult leader figure scary no, but the idea of setting up a return of all the previous baddies happening at the same time and essentially having the further spill out into our world and then having another few films battling it was good.

The appeal of having the film end with the heroes failing but escaping and then having Elise say from off screen I think you’re going to need some help, back in the human world, would have been great. Bringing back all the past protagonists to face down all the demons and ghosts now in the human world would have set up something epic.

Yet it just ends and ties everything up and all the ghosts and demons get trapped back in the further the end. How utterly disappointing.

This film squanders any promise it had.

Overall, a disappointment.

2.5/5

Pros.

It’s watchable

It has some good ideas

It introduces an interesting new character

Cons.

The villains aren’t scary particularly when they show them to you

The ending is awful

It lacks vision

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Spa Weekend: Middle Age Definitely, Middle Of The Road Probably

Summary: a group of women go on a spa weekend.

The central issue with this film is that we have seen it before, a group of women who have let life takeover their friendship reconnect and achieve growth milestones. If you ignore the various male films that have had this premise, Bad Moms, Rough Night, Bridesmaid etc have all done variants of this sort of premise. As such nothing in this film feels very fresh.

Isla Fisher is probably the beating heart of this film and easily steals the show, her performance works on a number of levels and she easily out-classes the other performers with ease.

There are a few funny moments herein and a couple of laugh out loud ones but sadly they are too few and far between.

A comment on this film for its plot is, that it is starting to grow stale and trite that we can only explore the friendships of middle aged women through the lens of them being unhappy with their life, can we not see women in their prime happy and reconnecting. Likewise why in 2026 do we boil a woman down to one characteristic, we have a character here who is angry all the time and her journey is to stop being so angry that is incredibly simplistic and bad character work.

Overall, a film you have seen before

3/5.

It’s comfort viewing

It has a few funny moments

Fisher is great

Cons.

It’s reductive and reinforces cliches

It is incredibly derivative

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Mutiny: An Alien World

Summary: Jason Statham is fighting human trafficking in a hard to define location, that doesn’t seem to operate like anywhere else on Earth.

This is a deeply forgettable action film that makes you think why bother, it follows on from other Statham films like A Working Man wherein Statham is working for and deeply loyal to an employer and then something negative happens to them and he has to sort it out.

What should have been a film about corporate espionage and Statham going after this rival syndicate that had this employer killed instead turned into him getting stuck on a boat and killing people on that instead.

Unlike his other recent ventures like the Beekeeper there is not even that much of a novelty gimmick to it, he could have killed people using nautical equipment and made sea puns as one liners. Sadly we get a lot of gun and knife kills so very generic.

For a cheap leading lady they draft back in Anabelle Wallis who hear manages to do and inconsistent American accent. Why she is in this film is an open question as she doesn’t really serve that much of a purpose, she doesn’t end up with Statham at the end and she doesn’t do all that much action wise.

Overall, not worth the price of admission

2/5

Pros.

A few good kills

The action choreography

Cons.

It’s generic

At times it’s boring

Wallis

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Coyote Vs Acme: The Looney Tunes Are Back

Summary: Wiley sues Acme for the millions of bad products they have sold him over time.

Live action animation projects often have a history of producing mixed results however, every now and then there is one that comes along that really works, Looney Tunes Back In Action was this, The Sonic movies too, and very much to its credit so is this film.

It finds a use for all of the most prominent Looney Tunes characters, except for Marvin the Martian, and Speedy Gonzales and creates a world and a story where they don’t feel forced in but like a natural part.

The story itself was very heart warming with the relationship between Will Forte’s lawyer character and Willie becoming the core of the film. The mystery of what Acme is doing is also interesting and quite deep philosophically for a kids film.

The only issue the film has is a structural issue, it makes little sense how the film wraps up, it would have made sense for Acme to be taken down during the congressional hearing. Not as the film does it immediately after Acme winning the case and only because Bugs leaked evidence, it would have made sense for Bugs to show up at the congressional hearing with the evidence as well and have Acme lose.

Overall, the best thing out of the Looney Tunes in years

4.5/5

Pros.

The world

The inter character relationships

Forte and Condor

The references and callbacks

It’s funny

Cons.

The structure of the ending

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