The Sane Lunatic

Ladies and gents, we have another one! A racing docudrama! One of the best stories in motorsports that birthed possibly the most iconic race car in history. This is the 1960s saga of Ford vs Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. I have been waiting for this movie since I saw the first trailer a few months ago and it did not disappoint in any way. Matt Damon as Carroll Shelby, Christian Bale as Ken Miles and Tracy Letts as Henry Ford II were impressive support cast for the real stars - the cars. Given that this is a record in history, a summary of the plot won't exactly count as giving out spoilers. In the early 1960s, the Ford Motor Company was struggling to compete against its rivals who were offering more exciting models to a younger generation. Marketing head Lee Iacocca suggested the idea that Ford should go into racing but starting a motorsport division would be quite costly and time-consuming. At that time, a Ferrari had won the 24 Hours of Le Mans five years in a row b...

Ten years! Ten years since Zombieland came out and became a cult classic z-movie. For me, it was instantly one of my favourite zombie movies and in my limited viewing repertoire, it's second to Shaun of the Dead. Now, we get a sequel with the same amiable characters - Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita and Little Rock. It's everything you hoped it would be... and a lot of what you'd fear a sequel to be. The movie timeline follows the same ten-year progression of the characters. For three of them, it doesn't change too much but a decade can change a lot for a kid like Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) who went from being a girl to a woman. In the apocalyptic world, puberty would be unimaginably more difficult, when the only non-Brain eating company you have is a gun-toting loon as a father figure (Tallahassee played by Woody Harrelson) and your older sister (Wichita played by Emma Stone) who is dating the ballsy, good-guy nerd (Columbus played by Jesse Eisenberg). So, the...