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Netflix viewers dub Ladies First ‘utter rubbish’ after landing 13% Rotten Tomatoes score

Netflix viewers dub Ladies First ‘utter rubbish’ after landing 13% Rotten Tomatoes score

Published by Daniella Wilson

Netflix‘s latest star-studded drama, Ladies First, has been branded “utter rubbish” after landing a meagre 13 per cent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes. Landing on the streamer over the bank holiday weekend, the film stars Rosamund Pike and Sacha Baron Cohen and takes on a Barbie-esque premise. Directed by Thea Sharrock (Wicked Little Letters, The Beautiful Game), the logline reads: “A ladies man finds his life upended when he wakes up in a parallel world dominated by women.  © Rob Youngson/NetflixSacha Baron Cohen as Damien Sachs and Rosamund Pike as Alex Fox “With the rules of engagement changed, he goes head-to-head with a fiery female colleague in a playful satire about what happens when the script is flipped.” Ladies First is a remake of the 2018 French romcom I Am Not an Easy Man and, despite storming the charts to become one of Netflix’s most-watched films, it has left viewers and critics hugely divided. What have viewers said about Ladies First? The film has proven more popular with viewers than critics, earning a 65 per cent …

Ladies First Reviews: Critics Slam Netflix’s ‘Dated’ Sacha Baron Cohen Comedy

Ladies First Reviews: Critics Slam Netflix’s ‘Dated’ Sacha Baron Cohen Comedy

Published by Sam Flores

When the trailer for the new Netflix comedy film Ladies First dropped, it quickly raised eyebrows, with some critics going as far as calling it “the worst movie trailer” the had “ever seen”. And let’s just say the response isn’t any better now that the film has landed on streaming services, with a smattering of one- and two-star reviews. Ladies First stars Sacha Baron Cohen as a chauvinistic CEO whose life is upended when he wakes up in a parallel world dominated by women. Despite an all-star cast which includes Rosamund Pike, Fiona Shaw, Charles Dance and Emily Mortimer, the film is getting negative reviews across the board. Critics are calling out the film’s subpar jokes, borderline-offensive gender politics and misuse of its talented British cast. Here is what people are saying about Ladies First… “In its attempt to become a one-stop shop for just about every form of nostalgia possible, Netflix has now decided to revive the dreadful British comedy of the 2000s. The all-deciding algorithm has somehow deemed it necessary for a return …

Inter Alia review: A triumphant, freewheeling turn by Rosamund Pike

Inter Alia review: A triumphant, freewheeling turn by Rosamund Pike

Published by Sam Flores

Like Prima Facie, Inter Alia deals with the fact that the system remains rigged against women, particularly the legal system, where convictions for rape and sexual assault are rare and victim-blaming common. And as with the earlier play, the price of Miller’s insider information is the occasional impenetrable thicket of legalese. She and Martin are adroit, though, at sudden shifts of mood, from comedy into something stark. Source link

Rosamund Pike Feared ‘Doom’ Movie Was Career-Ender

Rosamund Pike Feared ‘Doom’ Movie Was Career-Ender

Published by Daniella Wilson

Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike says her 2005 action role killing zombies on Mars in the video game adaptation Doom, where she starred opposite Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, could have ended her acting career. “So when I was making Pride & Prejudice and I was having great fun in my cornfields in my bonnet, I get a call to be in an action franchise,” Pike told the How to Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast. It wasn’t A Minecraft Movie or Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, evidently, especially after her initial co-star, Ray Winstone, dropped out. “So suddenly I’m in this film with the Rock, and I realize how utterly ill-equipped I am to be an action star,” Pike recounted of meeting Johnson, as nice as he was buff, on their first day on set. “There were people pepping him up, there were weights on the set. Every time a gun was brought out, it was a holy relic for the Doom fans. There was a whole routine before takes… I was just out of my comfort zone, out of my …

Rosamund Pike says she starred in ‘one of the worst films ever made’

Rosamund Pike says she starred in ‘one of the worst films ever made’

Published by Sam Flores

Rosamund Pike has boldly declared she once starred in “one of the worst films ever made”. The British actor has one Golden Globe, an Emmy and an Oscar nomination to her name, but according to the Gone Girl star, her career was almost stopped in its tracks by a box office flop so “catastrophic” she feels lucky to have been hired again. After making her big screen debut in Bond film Die Another Day, and then appearing in Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice adaptation, playing Bennet sister Jane, Pike was offered a role in 2005 video game adaptation Doom. Rosamund Pike: “I starred in probably one of the worst films ever made’ (Getty) “When I was making Pride & Prejudice, and I was having great fun in my cornfields in my bonnet, I get a call to be in an action franchise,” she told How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast. “They were making a cinema version, a narrative version of the video game Doom. And I think in my bonnet, in my field of …

Judi Dench’s ‘Naughty’ Side Made Her Rosamund Pike’s Favourite Co-Star

Judi Dench’s ‘Naughty’ Side Made Her Rosamund Pike’s Favourite Co-Star

Published by Sam Flores

Over the course of their numerous collaborations, Rosamund told Radio 2 that she discovered the Oscar winner is both a “delight” and a fan of creating her own fun behind the scenes. “The best actress I’ve ever worked with is Judi Dench, who’s such a mischief maker,” the Gone Girl star enthused. “She’s so delightful. She’s so, so good.” Rosamund added: “She’s just amazing and yet, when you’re doing a play with her, she’s so funny, she’s so naughty. Off stage, she’s completely out of character, laughing, playing a practical joke, and then she walks on and it’s all there.” Elsewhere in her Radio 2 interview, Rosamund claimed that her favourite male co-star was Christian Bale, even if his Method acting technique meant she didn’t really get to know him very well. “He’s another level,” the Saltburn actor said. “I can’t say I know him really, but it was just a pretty amazing experience to be around him in a film called Hostiles. “But I don’t think I met Christian, I think I only met …