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Modern Family: The Wild (2019)
Please cancel
It was struggling last season. This season has sunk to lower depths. Heck I laughed and chuckled during seasons 1-9 now I wonder whether I can stay awake. The writing is laboured, the jokes non existent. Where once they poked fun at modern mores, now they are just the embarrassing uncle at a wedding.
The Arthur Haynes Show (1956)
1960 Season
Given the comedy talent here things should be better. However it is useful to see early work by Johnny Speight and Nicholas Parson's straight man. Arthur Haynes has two main characters, the tramp and the effeminate tailor. The sketches are studio bound with sets that make Crossroads solid by comparison. Quite how Aileen Cochrane got a gig by any other means than sleeping with Val Parnell is beyond me. Good support in the comedy from Leslie Noyes, later to be seen in Dad's army in the rear ranks. Raises a smile
Scenes from a Mall (1991)
Pony Tail
Woody Allen with a pony tail.
Need I say more.
Allen is a gifted filmmaker. I am currently trawling his oeuvre, and to be fair there has not been a film I couldn't watch (although Interiors did tax me) This is better than most actors bad films, and has a nice premise, moving in and out of a divorce as infidelities are admitted.
It has Bette Midler. It is one of her better films (The Rose apart, that is not saying much, and I love Bette Midler's music) However, whenever I see this film, I look at Woody's pony tail and wonder why he does films like this.
Still, nice colours, annoying mime, surprisingly little product placement, so worth a watch on a quiet Sunday
The Gentle Gunman (1952)
Gilbert Harding!!
Two reasons for picking it up, Gilbert Harding in a film (my only knowledge of him was Whats my line and the Face to Face), and an Ealing film.
I had known the IRA had bombed London in the war, and it was an interesting take on the story. The IRA cell get sprung (but are chased by the police in an unresolved plot end) but for the time it is even handed. I cant imagine Hollywood making a film that has sympathetic Al Qaeda characters.
Yes it is wooden acting, but it passed an evening, I also picked up two Will Hay Ealing films at the same time, which I have yet to watch. The connection being that Oh Mr Porter! is a film about IRA gunrunning.