What Films did You Watch Last Week (07/01 - 13/01) closed

Welcome back to another week of the BEST & WORST edition of 'what movies did you see last week?' thread. For those who haven't been part of it before, basically your host (me) posts my weekly movies and you can comment on those and list your movie for the same time frame. I will get back to you on yours and you can talk to other users here about their films. It's a great place to talk about film.

FIRST TIME MOVIE VIEWING

Vice (2018, Adam McKay)
Cinema
Director Adam McKay has now solidified a move from broad comedies (Anchorman) to doing true stories with a comedic slant. He first did this with The Big Short (2015) to much success and has ides much of the same cast and crew to follow it up with this film about one of the most evil men of American politics, Dick Cheney.
The intentionally frenetic style of story telling used in The Big Short is on display here again but this time just comes off as messy and even lazy at times. I don’t think he has mastered the through line narrative such as an Oliver Stone did with Nixon (1995) but there are still plenty of things to enjoy here.
The cast are excellent and all do stellar work, in particular Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carrell and Tyler Perry. The subject matter and it’s collection of misdeeds and exposure is a great thing and this type of political back dealings is right up my alley for enjoyment. If you are not a fan of politics the. This film won’t be for you at all but between the subject matter and performances I got my money’s worth.
6/10

REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING

The Dream Team (1989, Howard Zieff)
blu ray
This film has a great cast playing four mental patients (Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst) who are on a field trip in New York City and must save their Doctor, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder.
I have always liked films that take place over one night or throughout a 24 hour period and this is a fun adventure in that vein but with a deeper story behind the laughs of these men overcoming some of their problems and disagreements to try and help their caring friend, Doctor Weitzman.
Keaton is on fire here and it is one of most fun performances but he is surrounded by three very different characters who are just as interesting. This might be an under seen and underrated gem, check it out.
7/10

FIRST TIME TV VIEWING

The Kominsky Method (2018, Season One)
Netflix
Wry comedy starring Michael Douglas as an ageing actor, who long ago enjoyed a brush with fame but now makes his living as an acting coach.
Alan Arkin plays  his agent and they have great chemistry.
Recommended

WEEKLY AWARDS

BEST FILM: The Dream Team
BEST ACTOR: Christian Bale - Vice
BEST ACTRESS: Any Adams - Vice
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Steve Carrell - Vice
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Alison Pill - Vice
BEST SCRIPT: Jon Connolly, David Loucka - The Dream Team
BEST DIRECTOR: Howard Zieff - The Dream Team

10/10 - Perfection (or as close to it as possible)
09/10 - An Excellent film
08/10 - A VERY Good film 
07/10 - A Good film
06/10 - A Solid film
05/10 - An Average film
04/10 - Below Average film
03/10 - A mostly bad film
02/10 - A mostly terrible film
01/10 - Awful through and through
00/10 - Not only awful but offensive too