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The Buccaneers (2023)
More please!
I've binged the first five episodes with my daughter and wife who both loved it - a new take on Wharton with enough pep to keep old (talking about myself rather than the wife) and young hooked from the word go and a soundtrack that will have you reaching for your Spotify account. Actors all great, although few can touch Christina Hendricks in a role she was born to play - more of her please! Am looking forward to next week's episode already hoping that Lizzie will finally find a man worthy of her charms and devotion. Time to bite the bullet and ditch the rat! Costumes splendid and locations deliver everything you could want from a high end period drama. Direction and writing both excellent delivering all the humour and wit that Wharton is renown for. More please!
John Wick (2014)
100 minutes of Keanu - what's not to like?!
John Wick begins with a cool montage that almost apes the "sad Keanu" meme. Our leading man, John Wick (who is almost always referred to by his full name - and why not, when it's that cool?) is mourning the loss of his spouse in a modern suburban home that looks primed for a photo shoot in Dwell magazine. Before succumbing to disease, his wife organized the delivery of a puppy (cinema's most adorable pet since almighty Uggie) to give him something to love as he tries to heal. When John Wick later runs afoul of some Russian gangsters who want to take his car, he tells them to buzz off in their native tongue.