02-19-2019, 02:34 PM
Under the Wire (2018)
BBC Documentary told through intense interviews to camera by photographer Paul Conroy recalling his and Sunday Times war-correspondent Marie Colvin's final 2012 assignment into the besieged hellscape of the Syrian city of Homs. The story is of course moving and shocking but I didn't think the film-making did it full justice. A lack of real footage has them relying heavily on recreations but they do them too well, so you don't know what you can trust. It will be interesting to see how the new Rosamund Pike film 'A Private War' handles these same events.
Top Secret! (1984)
Not only had I never seen this Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker spy-movie Spoof, I didn't even know it existed until Red Letter Media reviewed it last week. What 'Top Secret!' lacks in rapidity of gags (compared to 'Airplane!') it makes up for in a ton of genius visual gags around filmmaking techniques and cinematic tropes. I appreciated the incredible amount technical artifice and skill that went into making jokes that are this delightfully stupid. I imagine it improves on repeat viewing as I found there was an excess of plot getting in the way of me concentrating fully on the nonsense going on around the story.
BBC Documentary told through intense interviews to camera by photographer Paul Conroy recalling his and Sunday Times war-correspondent Marie Colvin's final 2012 assignment into the besieged hellscape of the Syrian city of Homs. The story is of course moving and shocking but I didn't think the film-making did it full justice. A lack of real footage has them relying heavily on recreations but they do them too well, so you don't know what you can trust. It will be interesting to see how the new Rosamund Pike film 'A Private War' handles these same events.
Top Secret! (1984)
Not only had I never seen this Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker spy-movie Spoof, I didn't even know it existed until Red Letter Media reviewed it last week. What 'Top Secret!' lacks in rapidity of gags (compared to 'Airplane!') it makes up for in a ton of genius visual gags around filmmaking techniques and cinematic tropes. I appreciated the incredible amount technical artifice and skill that went into making jokes that are this delightfully stupid. I imagine it improves on repeat viewing as I found there was an excess of plot getting in the way of me concentrating fully on the nonsense going on around the story.
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