The Movie Addict

The Zone of Interest was a film that I was looking forward to since I heard about it. The film follows a family that are living next door to Auschwitz. It's a simple premise that doesnt feel it needs to add emotional moments or anything melodramatic to emotional manipulate you. The film doesn't have any names I recognise except for Sandra Hüller who I recently saw in 'Anatomy of a Fall' and she continues to impress me. She plays someone who is almost oblivious to what's going on beyond the wall and is more concerned about making her house as lovely as possible. The film spends a great of time making her seem like she is a loving housewife but there are moments where the mask slips and she is horrible to her servant.  The interesting take is that we never see inside Auschwitz. However it is present in a lot of scenes because we hear gunfire and then we hear screams and in a few scenes we see smoke billowing from the chimneys. This is far more effective than if we had...

I will admit that I didn’t know too much about Bob Marley and after sitting through this movie, I still don’t think I know Bob Marley. The film follows Bob Marley as he goes from Jamaica to London, all round Europe before arriving at the One Love music show.  There are two types of biopics, there are those like Rocketman which you feel are giving you a warts and all account of the life of in this film Elton John. It doesn’t try and paint him to be a nice person but a flawed person and then there are those that don’t really do this and paint either a false picture or a vague one. This film is the latter. I think I wanted something a bit more substantial than what we got. The film felt too rushed and could have easily benefited from an extra 30-40 minutes. The performances are what makes this a four star film for me. Kingsley Ben-Adir gives a superb performance as Bob Marley. He makes the story come alive and made me actually made me care about someone that I don’t really know much a...

There aren’t that many times when I go into a film based on real people or events and are familiar with what is going to happen. Senna (2010) was probably the only other time I can remember but as a wresting fan (mainly of 80’s and 90’s stuff), I knew about the Von Erich’s and how the story of this wrestling family is one of tragedy.  The story tells of the Von Erich’s who started out in Texas and Fritz Von Erich’s attempt to achieve his dream of having the NWA World Title in the Von Erich family. The plot shows each brother and what happens to each of them. David who appears to be the most talented brother dies of enteritis in Japan. Kerry initially suffers disappointment after not being about to compete at the 1980 Olympic Games before losing his foot in a motorcycle accident and to compound the sad turn of events, he ends up taking his own life after leaving the WWF (now WWE). Mike is the one brother who doesn’t seem to want to peruse a career in sport and seems happy enough to ...

Argylle was the first big film that I wanted to see at the cinema in 2024 and despite some of the negative reviews that I had heard about, I actually enjoyed this. The film follows Elly who is an author who is using plot point from moments in her life even though at the beginning she doesn’t remember them. Over the course of the movie we learn what is going on; and how people close to her are responsible for the secret that Elly has been unknowingly suppressing. I thought that Bryce Dallas Howard was very likeable as Elly. Even when the twist is revealed and we learn that she is in fact a spy I still enjoyed where the film was going. I did think that the whole skating on oil and shooting people did seem a bit over the top but the film at this point was a bit over the top. I like Sam Rockwell in pretty much anything I have seen him in but I have to admit that I thought he was miscast in this and was probably the weakest part of the film and I take zero pride in writing that. He gives it...