Reviews
Underbelly: Vanishing Act (2022)
Not worth your time
Sadly this superficial retelling of the Melissa Caddick story cashes in on the underbelly name with little of the quality that most previous underbelly series have given.
No new information about the situation was given although some aspects of the dramatization did add some emotion to the story.
In truth, the 60 minutes story with the real life characters was somewhat more entertaining and informative.
Schindler's List (1993)
This is the truth
Watch it.
That is all.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
A movie in 2 acts
The first two thirds of the movie were quirky and at times funny and at other times mildly disturbing. Cate Blanchett played the slight nutty has-been genius architect to a T. Her nuttiness drove the movie forward as the other characters were somewhat banal.
The final third was a (and I have stolen this from another review here) "cooky cutter sitcom ending". All of a sudden Blanchett's character was back to boring and banal with the rest of them.
What started out as promising, ended with a fizzle.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
It was enough
It didn't quite knock my socks off as much as I thought it would but it was still a rollicking good ride through Queen's glorious reign. They provided the score to my teens and twenties and just hearing some of those songs again was glorious.
The film has copped a lot of flack. Apparently, it is thought by some to be a vehicle towards garnering more attention to the remaining members of Queen. Some have criticised the lack of depth to which the film probed Freddie's personal life and his complicated relationships with lovers and friends.
I thought what it gave was enough. Enough to realise that he was complex and at the very heart of it an insecure man who sought love and attention in ultimately destructive ways. The media was out for sordid details when he was alive (as evidenced in one scene of the film) and the thirst for those same details long after he is dead is just sad.
He was an imperfect artiste extraordinaire - please, let's just leave it at that.