{"id":230,"date":"2026-05-30T15:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:34:59","slug":"two-movies-on-rules-rewritten-rules-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Two movies on rules rewritten &#038; rules broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>\u201cLadies First\u201d<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><span>\u2b50<\/span><span>\u2b50<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span><span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span><span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span><span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span>Rating: 2 out of 4.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Speaking of gloriously gonzo, Sacha Baron Cohen, the hot mess (said with respect and gratitude) behind the devilishly caustic \u201cBorat\u201d films, stars in this rom-com-lite, gender-reversal spin with a side of nasty. The movie has a killer cast (Charles Dance, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw, Emily Mortimer and the ever-underrated Kathryn Hunter), yet can\u2019t find the footing to distinguish itself.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=228\">Yiyun Li on life \u2018in the abyss,\u2019 writing and the importance of \u2018Moby Dick\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Director Thea Sharrock based it on the 2018 French comedy \u201cI Am Not an Easy Man,\u201d but the updating triggered \u201cWhat Women Want\u201d (2000) vibes in me. Maybe that\u2019s because both Cohen and Mel Gibson play chauvinistic ad execs who get gendered comeuppance when a reality-altering happenstance changes the fabric of their universe \u2014 Gibson\u2019s self-centered id can hear the thoughts and desires of women nearby, while Cohen\u2019s crass conqueror gets a bop on the head and comes to in a female-driven world where fast food staples are now Burger Queen and Five Gals.<\/p>\n<p>The big timestamp \u2014 side note here \u2014 is the instantiation of #MeToo. \u201cWhat Women Want\u201d and \u201cI am Not an Easy Man\u201d predate it, leaving \u201cLadies First\u201d to walk a delicate line \u2014 which it does so with clunky awkwardness. Cohen\u2019s Damien Sachs ascends to head of the Atlas ad agency and promotes newly hired creator Alex Fox (Pike) to be his Guinness team lead for gender optic reasons. Fox overhears Sachs\u2019s pleasing-the-client logic, but before the ugly truth can gain any traction, the world flips and Fox is suddenly Sachs\u2019s boss. We are in a universe where men are used as sex symbols to sell product, and at church it\u2019s the Mother, the Daughter and the Holy She.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of the movie is Shaw as the CEO (in the man\u2019s world she was a lowly receptionist) who wants Sachs\u2019 middle manager as a play thang. Also fun is Hunter\u2019s Glenda, a cleaning woman in one reality and the minter of CEOs in the other. Her gravely British baritone and accompanying demeanor bring a brash bubbly element to the otherwise drab formula. In the she-ocracy Cohen does get to belt out some \u201cSex Farm\u201d nonsense that\u2019s humorous for a nanosecond, but overall, \u201cLadies First\u201d is a lot of sharp edges that never find ripe fruit to cut into. Sexism at its most basic is skin deep, but films about It \u2014 comedic or not \u2014 shouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Streaming on Netflix<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan: Ghost War (*1\/2)<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><span>\u2b50<\/span><span>\u2b50<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span><span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span><span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span><span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span>Rating: 1.5 out of 4.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s been a whole three years since Amazon Prime sunsetted \u201cJack Ryan\u201d its take on the desk-jockey-turned-black-ops-operative spy novels by Tom Clancy, so why not give spy-craving audiences an umpteenth reboot? That seems to be the impetus for bringing back series star John Krasinski and some of his cast mates.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=226\">CPS names new school leaders and administrators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Chris Pine and even Ben Affleck have all played Ryan on the big screen \u2014 none better than Baldwin in \u201cThe Hunt for Red October\u201d (1990). The Clancy books were mostly set against the tail end of the Cold War, War on Drugs and the roots of the War on Terror. Krasinki\u2019s version bit into modern conflict and made Ryan more of a Navy SEAL triggerman than a backroom analyst caught in a crossfire (i.e., Ford\u2019s everyman who was forever in a shootout sans a gun).<\/p>\n<p>Here Krasinski\u2019s Ryan has stepped away from the CIA and taken a gig on Wall Street. He has biz in Dubai, so old friend and handler James Greer (Wendell Pierce), now in the agency\u2019s number two post, asks Ryan to pick up a package while there. It\u2019s a one-off favor (yeah, that\u2019s how flimsy the narrative is) and for good measure fellow operative Mike November (Michael Kelly, from the series, as is Greer) is sent along to help out. The package is essentially a MacGuffin that gets the MI-6 mule killed and sends a rogue MI-6 agent (Max Beasley in a thankless part) and an ample paramilitary team after Ryan and November. They\u2019re helped by the ever-likable Sienna Miller, who plays a dutiful British agent. The shoot-\u2018em-up, blow-\u2018em-up action takes place in London and an unfinished skyscraper in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing about this \u201cGhost War\u201d has much stick, despite its estimated $100 million budget. The dialogue \u2014\u00a0 the script is credited to Krasinski, Aaron Rabin and \u201cA House of Dynamite\u201d (2025) scribe Noah Oppenheim \u2014 is AI stiff, while the action scenes directed by Andrew Bernstein, who worked on \u201cOzark\u201d and \u201cFoundation,\u201d are often muddled and flat. It\u2019s a thriller sans a thrill. Back to the well, Amazon. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=224\">Two new movies grapple with our disorienting, disoriented world<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Streaming on Prime<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLadies First\u201d \u2b50\u2b50 Rating: 2 out of 4. Speaking of gloriously gonzo, Sacha Baron Cohen, the hot mess (said with respect and gratitude) behind the devilishly caustic \u201cBorat\u201d films, stars in this rom-com-lite, gender-reversal spin with a side of nasty. The movie has a killer cast (Charles Dance, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. 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