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Ride (2018)
Enjoyable Ride with a star turn from Ludacris
A perfect pickme up movie about a kid from a tough background being given a chance to shine but also changing his beliefs and values along the way. This true story has race at its centre but veers away from complex scenes on race and ideology using it as a background to focus instead upon the journey towards becoming a champion biker. In terms of performances, all the lead actors do well with the exception of Ludacris whose understated performance of a tough but fair foster parent steals the movie.
The scenes with the BMX skills seemed real and were amazing to watch, and like all sports movies inspired you to make you to go and have a go. Overall conclusion an uplifting movie, but will be soon forgotten.
Soul (2020)
Soul Inspiring Pixar Family Movie
Soul is a modern day 'its a wonderful life' unlike other pixar movies its not too heavy on gags or action scenes,
so may struggle to keep the attention of younger viewers, the film moves at a gentle pace and is the maturest pixar movie to date.
Its theme will definatley strike a chord with older viewers with its theme of all of us making a difference to the world in our own little way.
Jamie Fox is good, Tina Fey is better, but the British talents of Graham Norton and Richard Ayoade are the real stars of the movie with their brief cameos.
In terms of a pixar movie, this seems better suited to the small screen with none of the gravitas of their previous movies and none of the marketing/merchandising possibilities of previous adult themed pixar movies such as Inside Out. Pixar have proved once again they can make mature intelligent thought provoking movies, their technology can take us to other places and worlds, that live action movies simply cant, the challenge now is whether they can drop the requisite of it being a kids film and give the writers and animators free reign to take the stories ob further, then we may have another ' Matter of Life & Death rather than a Soul to review, and cinema may have a few more classics to add their libary.
The Undoing (2020)
Good but had potential to be much better
This show had it all A listers, big budget, set against a backdrop of New York city and plenty of promise from the first few episodes, which like all Murder Mystery TV shows had you guessing right till the end. But like all shows based on written material, producers have a choice go down a road they would like to take the show or stay safe and stick to the source material, as you can tell from my title they played it safe hence the disappointment on my part. The show was very clever in how it got you to that conclusion though to its credit.
In terms of the cast Hugh Grant was really good, perfect casting as a member of the New York liberal elite. British actors of an age seem to have found a place to excel on the small screen of late. Nicole Kidman in contrast was Nicole Kidman, ok but didnt excel in her role, problem is she still looks a million dollars when everything around her is falling apart.
Donald Sutherland was a safe pair of hands and the victim, one word beutifal but not all there, maybe the show should have explored this a bit more. To conclude, one of the better offerings of 2020, but the best probably not.