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The Whip | Average Guy Movie Review

Facing financial ruin courtesy of an impending welfare reform, full-time carer Sadie (Shian Denovan) comes up with an audacious scheme to sabotage the new 'Independence Credit' before it can be voted in. She plans to send the government spiralling into chaos by stealing their leverage and crippling their chief whip. In order to do it Sadie will have to sneak into one of the UK's most secure buildings, so she's going to need some help. Let's face it, any opportunity to see a bunch of snivelling politicians - represented here by Ray Bullock Jnr's deliciously evil Chief Whip - get their comeuppance is going to be welcome with pretty much anyone. Even more so when it comes as the result of an Ocean's Eleven  style heist.  Somehow, through this cheesy heist movie that very closely reflects the world we live in - certainly here in the UK - writer/director/producer Christopher Presswell and writer Forgács W. András have actually managed to make treason look fun.  N...

X-Men | Moustache ReWatch - Part 2

After a brief hiatus - mainly to go see Deadpool & Wolverine  - I'm back to rewatching the X-Men  movies. As with Part 1  it's a mixed bag of movies, with some legendary highs, some rather unfortunate lows, and very little in between. For every Logan  there's an Apocalypse , I guess. If you missed it, you can find Part 1 of my  X-Men | Moustache ReWatch   here . So Logan survived his little adventure in Japan, only to come face to face with two old friends seeking his help with a coming threat. Cut to a few years later and the world has been ravaged by war, but I don't think that's Logan's fault. Days of Future Past  is certainly one of the more ambitious X-Men  movies, and it pays off. Less of an action movie and more of a thriller, this new adventure puts an interesting new spin on the complicated relationships between all of the mutants, but especially Charles and Erik - all four of them. It might be a little messy, but bringing the two ca...

Long Way... Home?

They’re off again! The team behind Long Way Round , Down and Up - Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, Russ Malkin, David Alexanian - are putting together a fourth season of the hit show. One involving travelling the long way from McGregor’s house in Scotland to Boorman’s in England, with 10,000 miles of Scandinavia, the Balkans, and a little bit of Europe in between. In other words, it's another trip of a lifetime.   Long Way Up In their official announcement Apple described the new trip as: an adventure that will take them to more than fifteen countries, through spectacular scenery and along some of the greatest driving roads in the world. Along the way they'll immerse themselves in each country's culture, meet the locals, and try their hand at unique and eclectic activities. While McGregor was a little more brief: Rusty old bikes and 10,000 miles of Scandinavia, and Eastern and Central Europe. A big loop from my house in Scotland to Charley’s house in England. Long way h...