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All of today's comments by Johnny Moronic
This Little Piggy
2014
This Little Piggy is a drama about
best friends Simon (Samuel Clark Duncan), a drug
dealer who is stepping up in the world and his best
friend Ely (Michael Gosden), an office drone who hates
his job. Simon starts selling cocaine and thanks to
his friend and customer David (Daniel Last), he is
able to get a steady customer base, which he exploits
by reducing the potency of the cocaine to make more
money. David has his own problems as he is separated
from his ex and barely see his daughter or pays
support for her. At a killer party, Simon meets Tessa
(Tamara Natt) and it's instant love, for Simon anyway,
and a relationship blooms. Simon's success lets him to
sample his own supply more and more and he becomes
more irrational, which spills over when Tessa doesn't
return his love as he was expecting. Now with a steady
cash flow, David gets back with his ex and things are
looking up for him until his customers work out they
are being shortchanged and bash him up. Tessa and Ely
begin to have feeling for one another and things boil
over causing a huge blow-up that will end with the
death of someone.
OK drama that tells the oft-told tale
of a man who enjoys his new found riches and doesn't
see the obvious happening around him until it's too
late. While it never reaches any great heights, it's a
pretty good watch.
Tamara
Natt film clip (samples below)
Laura
Jane Turner film clip (sample below)
Crushed
2016
Crushed is a thriller where Ellia
(Sarah Bishop) has moved away from her family's winery
and is in Melbourne attempting to open a wine bar in
between drinking lots of wine and having copious
anonymous flings. But when she attempts to get in
touch with her father about helping her with the wine
bar, her mother (Roxane Wilson) tells her the news
that he died in an accident at the winery. Ellia comes
back to the winery, mostly to indifference from
everyone including her uncle David (Les Hill), who
helps run the winery with Ellia's dad and brother Zac,
although her sister Harriet (Millie Spencer-Brown) is
happy to have her back. Ellia's mother seems to want
to quickly move on with her life with rumours of an
affair with David and that she may have been assaulted
by Ellia's father. Ellia attempts to keep an arm's
distance with her family as there seems to be
something that happened in the past that is causing
this friction, but that leads her to Lucas (Robert
Preston), her ex, who is now a local cop, who she also
wants to avoid as he married the other woman. The
police then conclude that Ellia's father was actually
murdered and arrest the mother possibly because of the
something Ellia said to Lucas. But, Ellia is not
convinced of this and goes about finding out the
truth, focusing on David at first as it seems to be
related to the year's bumper crop which may have been
because of illegal practises. A worker at the winery
Jesse (Aaron Glenane), seems to know something about
this that could also be related to the death of his
trusty dog, but when Ellia goes to meet him, she finds
him dead, apparently by suicide, but of course Ellia
is not convinced and continues to follow leads until
she finds the shocking truth, which maybe a little
closer to home than she imagined.
OK thriller despite throwing in
numerous red herrings that do bog down the plot,
particularly a silly one involving the cop, but the
plot is intriguing enough to plow through such
obstacles and the final twist is good enough to stop
the movie from being a failure. The acting is uneven,
the supporting cast is very sketchy and while Sarah
Bishop is OK in the lead and I quite like her in her
comedy work, I get the feeling that Crushed could have
done with a better dramatic actress in the lead.
Having said that, Crushed is worth a look if you are
into plot driven mysteries thrillers.
Sarah
Bishop film clip (sample below)
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