Review: American Hustle

Like Argo, American Hustle has a story that sounds too good to be true, but unlike Ben Affleck's Oscar winner American Hustle plays it more for laughs and is worse off for it to be honest.

It's still good fun, but Bale and Cooper play things so far over the top this crime-caper can never become anything more substantial - the star of the show is Amy Adams who as well as looking amazing, manages to add some layers to her character whilst not wearing that many herself.

Review: Sound City

Take out the final half hour, which is pretty much just and advert for the album they brought out at the same time and Dave Grohl's directorial début is an entertaining look behind the music made at the legendary Sound City studios.

Films like these sink or swim with the quality of the contributors and the film covers an eclectic mix of music, thankfully not just focusing too much on the heavy-hitters like Fleetwood Mac and Tom Petty (as after watching the 4 hour film about him I've had my fix of how Damn The Torpedoes was made). The doc also touches on the analogue versus digital debate, but doesn't really go into that much depth with only Trent Reznor playing a slight devil's advocate, instead where the film shines is how the talking heads manage to convey how it was something more than bricks and mortar that managed to magic of the music recorded in the Los Angeles studio.