That’s just stealing from the playbook of Home And Away. Dynasty set inside a breakfast TV studio.Īs season two wraps up, Jennifer Aniston is knocked unconscious when she whacks her head on a bedside table after tripping on a shoe. The writing is desperate to be included in the category of prestige television but really it’s just an expensive soap opera. Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon are phenomenal to watch – their performances, as well as the glossy sets and locations, stop you from turning off. Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston do the best with what they’ve been given by The Morning Show team.Īttempts to be topical with hot-button issues – #MeToo, the coronavirus pandemic, cancel culture – just end up making the series feel dated, even though the season two finale only just dropped last week. Even the film’s own dialect coach said in an interview this week that it sounds more Russian than Italian).

Nothing else about it needs to be good because all of us bozos who watch it will be dazzled by the fancy clothes and entranced by Lady Gaga’s fake Italian accent (this accent has also been singled out in many of the reviews. It’s as if the people who make productions like this think that - just because it’s expensive and has a couple of celebrities attached - it’s an automatic win. Legendary director Ridley Scott is at the helm, leading an A-list cast including Lady Gaga, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek, Adam Driver and Al Pacino.īut that’s exactly what the problem is these days. The production had a budget of AU$105 million to play with. It’s about a glam world set inside an iconic global fashion house. On the surface, this movie has everything going for it. Rating the film one out of four stars, The New York Post described it as “a hodgepodge of wacko performances and disparate tones” and declared, “the abysmal Gucci would get a better grade, perhaps, if it were a term paper titled ‘How to Make the Assassination of a Famous Person Boring’.” The crime drama – based on the true story of how Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, plotted to kill her husband, the heir to the Gucci luxury fashion house - is set to hit Australian cinemas on New Year’s Day, but some early reviews coming out of the US indicate the flick is more bargain basement than it is high-end.īy the sounds of it, it would’ve been more entertaining if producers just clipped together two-and-a-half hours of CCTV footage from Lowes.

The upcoming House Of Gucci was meant to be that big, beautiful, buzzy film that steals the summer and has everyone talking. It’s both sad and hilarious when a glitzy, star-studded Hollywood movie that cost about one hundred million dollars to make ends up being as well received as Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

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