Bob Marley: One Love is plagued by some of the same things that turn musical biopics into a film that can be hit or miss. Musical biopics can not just live or die on the music alone. The genre has never been the same following Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. It’s very telling when the parody film is stronger than most musical biopics. But for every such biopic that gets Oscar nominations, there are…
"Bob Marley: One Love Falls Short of Musical Biopic Standards"Tag: David Kerr
While there are laughs, Johnny English Strikes Again doesn’t have enough to over come the predictable cliches throughout this spy comedy. That the film starts out with a cyber attack revealing the identities of every single undercover agent in Britain isn’t a problem. It’s that this EXACT trope was played out before ten years ago in the film remake, Get Smart! It just so happens that Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) happens to be retired from…
"Johnny English Strikes Again: Full of Spy Cliches"