Scoop
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2006
Stars: Woody Allen, Scarlett O'Johansson, Hugh Jackman
Well this is a first. I just watched a Woody Allen film - and enjoyed it. That's never happened to me before. Admittedly, Woody Allen played his usual neurotic, annoying character, but this time round you weren't meant to like him. His annoying mannerisms were supposed to be annoying.
The story centres on a student journalist who gets a tip-off from a dead journalist with an amazing scoop, and decides she has to investigate. The story flows along nicely, the film (unlike some recent watches I won't mention) moves along at a nice steady pace, and, for me at least, it was quite hard to know how it would end. If only all Woody Allen films were this enjoyable...
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
About Me
- Anna Lawson
- I live in Bristol with my husband Dan (who I married in July 2007), my son Joe (born 2012) and daughter Jess (born 2015). I work at UWE (the University of the West of England) in Bristol as a Research and Open Access Librarian. I'm orginally from Exeter, so moving back to Bristol is a bit like coming home - especially as I studied for my undergraduate degree here (also at UWE). I love travelling and movies, although I get to do a lot less of both since the birth of our children. Although we have still managed to fit in holidays to the Isles of Scilly, Chamonix and a summer in California since Joe was born.
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