Films: The Ups and Downs

When you are battered over and over again about a killer disease, you want some escapism: And that's what '21 Bridges' gives you. The premise is simple: Two guys break into a drug storage facility, where they are there to steal 3kg worth of coke (to those not au fait with that sort of thing, that's a lot of blow). It turns out to be a lot more than that. Three cops show up to the reported break-in. A shoot-em-up happens, and then after more policemen are shot - bringing the total to 8 -, Andre Davis ('Black Panther''s Chadwick Boseman) and Frankie Burns (Sienna Miller) team up to find the killers before they escape Manhattan. Hence the name '21 Bridges' - the NYPD close up Manhattan. " We got twenty-one bridges in and out of Manhattan. Shut them down. Three rivers. Close them. Four tunnels. Block them. Stop every train and loop the subways. Then we flood the island with blue," says Boseman. We are immediately on the edge of our s...

"West Canaan. Sex and football. That's all there is...."  Varsity Blues is your typical football movie. High school quarterback. Comes from nowhere. Nasty coach. Team comes from the blue. Last-second heroics. Super-hot high school girls. Drinking. The town cares about nothing else. Texas. James Van Der Beek's Moxon, the quarterback who's come from nowhere to lead the team, on the back of former QB (the late Paul Walker)'s injury. All he really wants to do is sit on the sidelines, read novels behind playbooks, and revise to go to Brown University. He's got some friends, which include his idiot wide receiver friend Tweeter (Scott Caan), and most of all, his obese friend Billy Bob (the late Ron Lester), who spends most of his time chugging things, be it beer, whiskey and, er, maple syrup. If you've already seen this then read on....if you haven't....look away. THE GREAT BITS We loved Mox's brother, who's 'spiritual...