Tag: Movies

Midweek Tease to bring you to your knees!

Hey guys, this post is tease for this week’s film. It’s a day later than normal BUT I think I’m going to relax the rules on when I post the teases. They’ll be coming on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday of any given week from now on.

I knew more or less what to expect from Beastly. It was a film that snugly fit my preconceptions. Perhaps this is from my own experience, through formulaic marketing and presentation, or simply by growing up wen I did, and recognising the stars, the tone and the influences that went into it. This weeks film is less obvious to me. It stars two women I think highly of, but looks for all intents and purposes like completely forgettable make-up-the-numbers type of film. This is reinforced by the pretty unpolished (by modern standards) box art and the fact that the sleeve contains no reviews. However some initial research suggests that, just like Ronin, I may have piced a film that- despite mediocre presentation and me having no prior knowledge of it- is actually pretty decent. Time will tell!

For now I can tell you its a screwball comedy loosely based on the story of Cyrano De Bergerac , a French play about a man who, ashamed of his large nose, writes letters to a woman he loves on behalf of another man, who also loves her. The film is not as highbrow as this might suggest however, just taking the idea of love via a sort-of avatar and the theme of physical insecurities.

So here’s a little peek:


While you chew that over, here’s some other things I think are interesting:

-New Peanuts Cartoon! Don’t know too much about it yet, but any new Peanuts stuff is good by me. Feast your eyes:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYA23cYTOB0

-Also, a film I’ve always meant to watch but haven’t yet got around to: Tetsuo The Iron Man is up on the BFI player. It’s a Japanese sci-fi body-horror cult classic: you should watch it if that’s sounds cool to you!  https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/five-reasons-tetsuo-iron-man  

-I’ve created a dedicated page for the ranking of every film from the blog- check it out: https://onepoundoneflick.video.blog/film-rankings/


Until Sunday then, that’s all from me. See you here again soon!

-Tom

Pound Shop Flix:

Greetings Dear Reader,

My name’s Tom. I started this blog to give me an excuse to flex my creative muscles. I like films a lot. I also like making fun of things. This blog will combine those two things.

I’ve been looking for something to write about for a while. As luck would have it, I was wandering through one of the pound store chains the other day, I noticed a sizeable space given over to DVDs. Pound stores have always stocked DVDs- traditionally the sort of cheap, unmarketed pap that seems to appear out of thin air and which no-one would be willing to spend real money on. I remembered too the joke present I bought for a friend years ago- a DVD of a film I think was called ‘9 1/2 Ninjas’. This undoubted cinematic triumph was a perect example and was bought from just such a store. Thinking about this brought a smile to my face- what a unique joy it was to behold such nonsense. I decided then to embark upon this project for my own entertainment and satisfaction. If someone reads it- all the better! Hopefully, unlike most other things I have set out to achieve in life, it will last more than a week.

So here’s the deal: Every week/ 2 weeks depending on my schedule I’m going to buy (and watch) a film from a pound store type shop. I will then write about and ‘critique’ them (read: make stupid jokes about them). It won’t just be any film however. I’ve noticed, alarmingly, that pound stores seem to have started stocking GOOD films in amongst the drek. I am not interested in those. Ergo, my criteria is this- the film I will buy will be:

-Obviously mediocre or plain bad (judged by the cover/ blurb) OR

-Something I’ve never heard of before OR

-Both of the above

I will begin this Sunday (09/06/2019) with a film I bought today: Hard Rain starring Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater. Is it okay? Is it bad? Is it terrible? I look forward to finding out!

-Tom