Young Elizabeth: The Making of Our Queen
Book
The story of how Elizabeth II became queen. We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on...
RWBY
TV Show
Team RWBY (Ruby, Weiss, Belladonna and Yang) trains at Beacon Academy, to fight crime and monsters...
Rooster Teeth RWBY Grimm
We Are Marshall (2006)
Movie Watch
Football is a game that knocks you down, then expects you to get back up. Life hit the West Virginia...
Grey's Anatomy
TV Show
The medical drama series focuses on a group of young doctors at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital,...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Wonder Wheel (2017) in Movies
Mar 12, 2018 (Updated Mar 12, 2018)
One of Allen's more theatrical movies - it certainly seems to have been made on a relatively low budget. Feels very much like a pastiche of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill, only considerably less subtle. At least as a character piece focused on a (somewhat) older woman there are fewer of the more problematic Allen tropes on display, and no sign of a laboured message or theme. Film is carried by a tremendous performance from Kate Winslet; Juno Temple is also good in a supporting role. Watchable stuff, certainly for Allen's remaining followers, although you do still wish he'd just make one more all-out comedy in the old-school style.
Grey's Anatomy - Season 1
TV Season Watch
The cleverly written series follows five first-year interns and their supervisors at Seattle Grace...
Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon
Book
This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often...
Keith Moon Stole My Lipstick: The Swinging '60s, the Glam '70s and Me
Book
A star-struck, naive 17-year-old country bumpkin leaves her mum, her cat, her budgie and her 16ft...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) in Movies
Jan 25, 2021
Where Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade are more straight shooting adventures, the comedic elements in them are placed fantastically, sparingly, and add to the overall experience. Temple of Doom is more of a gauntlet of jokes and over the top silliness, and most of it unfortunately doesn't land.
A lot of this comes from Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw), who acts as (constant) comic relief and Indiana Jones' love interest. The character is written in a way that she ends up at worst not being remotely likable, and at best being hugely grating.
Thankfully, the final third of Temple of Doom redeems matters a fair bit. The whole last sequence is unrelenting in its series of events. The action is masterfully executed, and feels like Spielberg was just constantly trying to one up himself in what he was doing, and his efforts result in an extremely fun and thrilling final act.
Once again, a lot of practical effects on display that lends this blockbuster series a sense of magic in a pre CGI age, and an as-per-usual incredible score from John Williams can be considered huge positives.
Overall then, Temple of Doom is a mixed bag for me, and easily my least favourite of the initial trilogy, even if I do have some find childhood memories attached to it!
A Question Of Faith (2017)
Movie Watch
Pastor DAVID NEWMAN is a loving husband and father, set to take over his dad’s church while...