Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

The magic trio pull it off again!

 

I recently caught this at my local cinema the other night, to be honest I had high expectations. I don't normally have great expectations of sequels because well, 9 times out of 10 they just aren't as good as the original. Just take The 'Inbetweeners 2' for example, yeah it was decent but you simply couldn't over look the over used jokes and humour that after watching every episode of the series a million times had just become boring. This sequel wasn't boring, it didn't recycle old jokes(well of course it did, but only the good ones).  This sequel had the perfect ingredients that filled me with joy as the original did; the first word that comes to mind is chemistry, between these three men.

Shower Buddy Selfie: Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day and Jason Bateman

Director Sean Anders' winning trio pull off the same comedic excellence of the original. Sudeikis, Day and Bateman provide a magical chemistry that keeps you laughing through out the whirlwind journey.

The trio are at it again but this time, they want to be their own bosses! They have created an innovation in bathroom technology, introducing the "shower buddy!" As you'd imagine they don't get very far; the trio think that they struck it rich, the American dream but their naivety and amateur business knowledge gets exploited buy one rich, heartless bas**** of a business man.

Chris Pine as the cocky, young and rich businessman Rex Hanson

The trio decide to deal with this double cross the only they know how, crime. The three worst criminals are trying their hands again, with a little help from some old friends along the way, but will crime finally pay?

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we forgot to mention Jennifer Aniston is still very hot, you can thank us later.

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Get Hard (2015)

This looks like its going to be one of 2015's biggest comedies. What a duo, Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart. Set for release 27th of March 2015 this film chronicles millionaire James King (Will Ferrell) getting sent down for fraud, bound for San Quentin, King knows he won't be able to handle the hard knock life behind bars. So King uses his money and connections to leave his lavish life behind him and prepare himself for life behind bars. King enlists Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart), who I can only assume has spent time behind bars and lives the criminal lifestyle to prepare him for his prison stint.

Now there isn't a lot of information other than that at the moment but I for one am extremely excited for the release of this film. The casting is exciting enough, I can only imagine the chemistry between Hart and Ferrell. Not to mention the story line; this film I'm sure will have a lot to offer, I have high hopes.

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St.Vincent (2014)

I thought that since I reviewed a classic Bill Murray film last Saturday (Groundhog Day), that it would be a good idea to review Murray's newest contribution to cinema, St. Vincent. Vincent has the whole world against him; the Vietnam Vet hasn't a hope in the word and has no hope in the world. With debts rising and a gambling addiction that never pays out, Vincent has nothing but hatred and despair for almost everything and everyone. Vincent reluctantly ends up looking after his new neighbour's son.. for a fee of course. The pair form an unlikely friendship with the youngster learning how to fight, gamble and binge drink from old Vincent; fair to say he's not the greatest role model a young man could hope for.

As you can imagine the unlikely pair get up to almost everything that they shouldn't. What this film does well is combine comedy with just the right amount of drama and a good tug on the heart strings; a rare combination that a lot of comedy films seem to just miss the mark on or just plain don't get right. Murray brings that miserable, cocky air of arrogance to this role just as he always has.

This truly is a great story of an unlikely friendship, that changes both involved for the better. Heart warming, hilarious and a little bit gritty.

apologies for how short and late this review has been, had a lot of stuff to be doing. well that's a lie, I've just been a little bit lazy. to make up for it I'm adding a new page to the site, check it out, I'm sure you'll like it... http://saturdaynightin.blogspot.co.uk/p/coming-soon.html

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Groundhog Day (1993)

I had sky movies comedy on today watching some terrible comedy that I can't be bothered to mention when this came across my screen. Now I admittedly this is the first time I had seen this film and I had no idea what the plot surrounded and had nothing to go by other than the title... Groundhog Day and to be honest being British I have literally no idea what Groundhog day in the US entails anyway... well.. now I do. So I know that a lot of you reading this will have seen this film at some point but to the minority that I was a part of before today that haven't... WATCH IT.

Let me try to sum up the storyline for you; now with me having no idea of what the plot was before watching it made the twist so much better. The twist that won't be a twist anymore because you've read this or even looked at the poster(sort of gives it away) is that Bill Murray playing a disgruntled news reporter that becomes trapped in the same day over, over, over, over, over (over doesn't even look like a real word anymore) and over again. That day, of course, is Groundhog Day; a day in which from what I could tell some Americans talk to a rodent to find out if there will be more days of winter or something. As you can tell I've done my research, if you'd like to insult my ignorance and educate me as to what groundhog day actually is then don't hesitate to comment.

Anyway back to the matter at hand regardless of what Groundhog Day stands for, this repeated day at first drives Murray crazy until he realizes after about the third day that it is useless trying to fight what it happening, so he uses it to his advantage. Murray basically does everything I would do in this situation, there are no consequences to his actions, so his actions become increasingly reckless. Murray tries to sleep with most of the women he comes in contact with as well as drinking heavily, punching an annoying asshole, getting into a high speed pursuit with the police, robbing a bank van and oh repeatedly killing himself;with no success Murray concludes that he is a God......

Ill not spoil the ending for you but it is a very good film, its gripping till the end, exciting, funny and exactly what the rest of us would do when faced with repeating a rather unspectacular day over and over.

5 Things you need to know about Groundhog Day

1. One of Bill Murray's strongest performances ever.
2. Murray's character Phil is trapped in the same day for just under 34 years! according to the website Wolf Gnards, a site obsessed with film.
3. A family of groundhogs were actually raised for the production.
4. Writer Danny Rubin said that one of his inspirations whilst creating this story was the book "Interview with the Vampire" which made Rubin consider what it would be like to be immortal, to live forever.
5. There were various actors such as Tom Hanks and John Travolta considered for the lead role of Phil but these actors where decided against as they where considered "too nice" in comparison to Murray.

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Starred Up (2013)

After seeing rave 5 star reviews of this film flying about I thought I'd give this a watch and see if it lives up to the large hype that followed it. oh and it also took away 3 awards at the British Independent Film Awards 2013 including best director and best screenplay.

Now, I've always been a fan of Jack O'Connell ever since I first saw him on Skins playing the role of 'James Cook', I thought he was brilliant, he brought a real fire and realism to the role that made the character 'James Cook' just so entertaining to watch but this isn't Jack O'Connell's biography so lets get to 'Starred Up'. O'Connell plays a youth offender(Eric Love) that has been prematurely moved to an adult prison due to the extent of his crimes (which are never disclosed in any detail). O'Connell plays these roles with such ease and realism that the performance is always exceptional but it does raise the question, is Jack O'Connell a one trick pony actor? Like Statham, Danny Dyer, Vinnie Jones, actors that can only play that stereotypical cockney hard man? Possibly, but that doesn't mean to say that he can't be successful in his own right playing these roles.

The film itself is pretty  good; now I'm not going to provide you with a full synopsis here (if that's what your into stop wasting your time and just visit IMDB) but the story is based around O'Connell's character Eric Love meeting his dad in prison and basically realizing how much of a cock his dad really, Love goes through a process within the prison of maturing by joining a group ran by a therapist. Now this group isn't necessarily a therapy sessions, a select few of the inmates attend and chat about any old shit; needless to say tensions rise on various occasions with chat surrounding racial issues and a lot of digs at each others mums... it certainly makes entertaining and interesting viewing. Initially Love is aggressive towards all authority and attacks police after knocking out a fellow inmate. This creates a very Bronson like scene in which Love greases up his body and beckons the police officers to enter his cell and takes most of them down and holds one hostage. This then leads on to Love biting one of the officers cocks but ill not spoil that scene for you. The group then protect Love and are a major part of his maturing process. With Love's father opposing this group and what its doing to his son this creates tension and anger between the two, proving a violent, gritty and entertaining film.

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