#films 8 Overlooked Films
‘How I Fell in Love with a Gangster?is a 2022 Polish film directed by Maciej Kawulski, written by Krzysztof Gureczny and Maciej Kawulski and starring Tomasz Wlosok, Aleks Kurdzielewicz and Antoni Królikowski.’
How I Fell in Love with a Gangster is fact-based, fast-moving, flashy, funny and a hell of a lot of fun!
Rich and powerful people do vile, vile things. And they get away it, of course, because they are rich and powerful. This is the way it has always been and this is the way is always will be. Probably.
The recent film Scoop takes a look at a paricularly pungent slice of grubby and sticky pie. It focuses on a brilliant Newsnight investigation into the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew’s uber-close relationship with a verminous sex trafficker, who is now thankfully dead and therefore not worthy of naming. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Scoop is gripping and brilliant, with top drawer performances from Billie Piper, Gillian Anderson, and Rufus Sewell, although all involved deserve a pat on the back, if not necessarily from Randy Andy.
Radu Muntean’s ?ntregalde is a tense, armospheric and beautifully acted drama with some great performances. Highly recommeded.
NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU is a short, sharp shocker that was written and directed by Brian Duffield and stars Kaitlyn Dever, who most of us will know from JUSTIFIED and is really brilliant in this film. I’ll say no more, so as to avoid spoilers, but I bloody loved it. Cracking stuff!
Patryk Vega’s The Plagues Of Breslau is a highly enjoyable and bloody gruesome crime thriller that is held together by some very strong acting, particularly from former soap-opera queen Ma?gorzata Ko?uchowska, and some smashing set-pieces.
The Pez Outlaw. This breezy and quirky true-crime documentary is currently on Netflix and is a hell of a lot of fun! Check it out
Despite its drab title, I’m Your Woman is a fantastic, ‘70 style crime drama complete with great performances and a cracking soundtrack.
Steve Coogan is a twat, he really is. Not in real life, I’m sure, but in the unfortunately named Michael Winterbottom’s black comedy GREED he is a right twat. Coogan plays Sir Richard McCreadie, a flashy-trashy billionaire who is planning a flashy-trashy birthday party which quickly turns pear shaped. Coogan is brilliantly horrible, and the rest of the cast - including Home & Away’s Isla Fisher - are convincingly unpleasant. GREED is a film about nasty, rich people being nasty and rich and as such is very funny indeed.
(c) Paul D. Brazill.