In which an idiot actor, looking to learn kung fu by way of the local Shaolin temple so he can help his oppressed worker mates out, has to build a scaffold whilst secretly learning some seriously kick ass scrapping techniques.
Funny, frenetic 36 Chambers, Shaw Bros flick with plenty of fight fun and comedy training stuff to recommend it, along with Gordon Liu.
Alternative Title: Kung Fu Escape Rooms 1.
Lots of revenge and self improvement by way of kung fu and quality fighting.
Highly recommended.
Incredibly entertaining two hander from Raimi that blends survival horror, gender politics, bloody gross out comedy, disaster movie tropes and inclement weather into a satisfyingly vicious whole.
Rachel McAdams goes all in as a meek office doormat whose male colleagues take the credit for her hard work turned feral desert island survivalist, looking out for her pampered, useless, frat boy boss Dylan O Brian who she is stranded with after their plane crashes into the ocean.
Highly recommended.
Left battles right in this fantastic, timely political thriller scripted and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and loosely adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s counter cultural Reagan era novel Vineland.
DiCaprio is sensational as down and out drug addled one time revolutionary and explosives man, Bob, who finds himself on a mission to rescue his daughter after she hits the road on the run from Sean Penn’s deeply unhinged right wing white supremacist Colonel Lockjaw.
Ferociously intelligent, funny, violent and politically astute,…
