The beauty of Stephen Frears’ 2000 adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name is that we ALL know characters like Rob, Barry and Dick. Hell, some of us (raises hand) are like that ourselves. Both the text and the big screen version are […]
“People have been using technology to enhance sex for millennia…” That’s the opening line from The Big Turn On’s presenter Natalie Mortimer and the positive introduction is a good omen for The Drum’s thorough, informative and ultimately pleasurable documentary on the world and industry of […]
(Spoilers etc) Admit it, when you read that a fourth Jurassic Park movie was heading your way quicker than a T-Rex with a point to prove you sighed, shrugged and went “yeah sure ok.” And remember that first teaser trailer? CGI that looked as rough […]
I’m neither a literary nor a cinematic snob. I love crappy sci-fi movies, and the kind of book you can read in an afternoon when you’re in the mood. Lowbrow is fine if it’s well done. But 50 Shades of Grey is a dreadful book. […]
Free the Nipple is not a documentary. It’s a fictional story based on real events about a group of women in New York City who advocate for the equal rights to be topless in public and help break the ridiculous taboo laws involving the sight […]
Over the next few weeks BaDoink will be taking a look at cult classics – movies that have captured the imagination and remained an enduring and intriguing part of modern pop culture over the decades. Our first visit for BaDoink’s Cult Classics is to the […]
American Sniper is the story of a brilliant marksman, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), credited with more than 160 confirmed kills in Iraq. Never meant to be a 100 percent true version of Kyle’s life, we are asked to consider the differences between Kyle […]
In spite of all the hype and meaningless ‘Black Woody Allen’ comparatives, for those of us familiar with his work for a while, Chris Rock is finally starting to really get his shit together. A shiny, effervescent prose poem dedicated to the human condition, warts […]
Testosterone and money are a heady, fatal mix. New money and old money may seem the same if you’ve got none, but when the Schultz brothers decided to deal with the über-weird John Du Pont they made a deal with a devil whose power they […]
One of the more amusing impressions given by Hollywood is that Boston is a sort of giant schizophrenic public house where academics and violent white trash begrudgingly coexist. Places like Charlestown, South Boston a/k/a ‘Southie’ and Dorchester – bastions of Irish white trash up there […]
Having never been much of a fan of Keanu Charles Reeves, I was not expecting too much out of John Wick beyond a lot of shooting, car chases and Canadian-accented mumbling. What I got instead was an excellent souped-up little violent crime-thriller with heart. One […]
Maziar Bahari is a hero to me. I’m not much for heroes, heroism, folks who wrap themselves in flags or blind obedience in the name of the People’s Will as posited by any politician. Yet Bahari’s ‘life initiates art/art imitates life’ story really moved me. […]
SPOILERS AHEAD Christopher Nolan is one of the two great scamming’ Watusis in the modern film industry. The other con artist, M. Night Shyamalan got found out quickly because he’s a one-trick pony who doesn’t know how to tell a story or write believable dialog. […]
It’s rare to find an old-fashioned taut thriller carefully threaded together to keep you on the very edge of your sea throughout. Directed with a sure hand by Yann Demange, who has cut his teeth on television with comedy shows like Man in a Box […]
It says a lot about the British that they love to fondly remember the Great War and its 888,246 dead by making a jolly knees-up-to-do out of singing ‘It’s A Long Way to Tipperary’ in pubs and heroizing one of the greatest wartime defeats in […]
I like to cry at movies. But it’s been a long, long time since Pan’s Labyrinth and, before that, Enemies: a Love Story had me weeping up a storm. Cynical tear-jerkers have always been around; yet there have always been gifted writer-directors like Douglas Sirk, […]
Everybody loved Boyhood, the unprecedented Richard Linklater epic that was shot over a 12-year period between 2002 and 2014. I knew everybody loved it, but until I saw it a few nights ago, I knew nothing else about it. I generally prefer knowing little about […]
In the never-ending quest to pilfer the meaningfulness out of each other’s work, the old Joe Mankiewicz tenet of “Distil! Distil!” has been reduced from fine, clear moonshine into R-Rated, raunchy, racially inclusive pap, vaguely recognizable as being something indeed familiar, yet strongly malodorous in […]
A lot of critics write about Brendan Gleeson like he’s a guy you could sit down and enjoy a pint with in a pub, all hail-well-fellow-met. But after watching him take Albert Finney’s version of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm and then reconstitute it […]
After such healthy returns at the box office and DVD market, whether you wanted another Inbetweeners movie or not is a little out of your control. But then, as much as people roll their eyes and say that the cash cow’s udders are dry, sometimes […]
