My neck has been hurting like crazy since yesterday morning and now I also have stomach ache, nausea and fever. In other words, I feel like shit which is great since the theme for Wandering Through the Shelves' Thursday Movie Picks this week is political comedies. Without further ado, here are my picks:
Bananas (1971)
When he's dumped by his political activist girlfriend (Louise Lasser), nebbish New Yorker Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its rebellion. It's one of my favourite Allen movies. I was re-reading the quote and boy they were fun!
In the Loop (2009)
The British Secretary of State for International Development (Tom Hollander) says that a war in the Middle East is unforeseeable and sets off people from both the US and the UK to bring out their pro or anti-war political strategies. It's a nice satire of the world of politics but I didn't love it.
Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)
An American political consultant (Sandra Bullock) is sent in Bolivia to help re-elect a controversial president (Joaquim de Almeida) where she must compete with a long-term rival (Billy Bob Thornton) who is working for another candidate. I don't remember much about this, only that it wasn't as terrible as I thought it'd be.
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