Will Forte and Kristen Schaal in The Last Man on Earth (2015)

Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Ryan, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, and Andrea Riseborough in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

Might be VHS, might be Region 2, might be rough bootlegs. 

But the one thing it ISN’T is R1 DVD.

Anne Bloom, Danny Breen, Mitchell Laurance, Stuart Pankin, and Lucy Webb in Not Necessarily the News (1982)

Natalie Mendoza, Shauna Macdonald, Saskia Mulder, Alex Reid, Nora-Jane Noone, and MyAnna Buring in The Descent (2005)

Documentaries, Docudramas & Re-Enactments

Multiple criticisms abound:  STORY:   You can have a great cast, but if there's no story, or the plot is incredulous you ßomb. SOUND: If you can't hear the dialogue you ßomb. If one producer writes all the music, and 

While thankfully rare, the original soundtrack 

, or

characters speaking, you ßomb. The story; the acting; sounds/soundtrack intrude to such extremes you

the extent that you cannot watch the

 ßomb X 3

Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz in The Constant Gardener (2005)

ßßrackish ßßilge water: ßßloated (even by TV standards); ßßoring; and worse, ßßadly written.

Lucy Punch and Toby Stephens in Vexed (2010)

Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Strong, and Rachel McAdams in Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Joe Gilgun, Stephen Graham, Vicky McClure, Andrew Shim, Thomas Turgoose, Rosamund Hanson, and Chanel Cresswell in This Is England (2006)

Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Danny Green, Katie Johnson, Cecil Parker, and Jack Warner in The Ladykillers (1955)

Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti, and Clive Owen in Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

Greg Kinnear and Ricky Gervais in Ghost Town (2008)

Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, and Andy Garcia in Ocean's Eleven (2001)

5 ♥ = IMDB “10” (My Highest praise)

Walter Matthau and Elaine May in A New Leaf (1971)

An empty rating doesn't mean that I didn't like the film, only that there was nothing noteworthy about it.  It was neither exceptionally bad nor exceptionally good, just average.

Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine, Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, and Molly Parker in Deadwood (2004)

5 ♥ = IMDB “10” (my highest praise)

Norman Eshley and Katherine Schofield in Thriller (1973)

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