What Just Happened (Blu-ray)

Robert DeNiro has been flagging somewhat in the last decade or so, delivering only a few servicable performances, notably in Meet the Parents and The Score, whilst tending towards more phoned in performances such as those in Meet the Fockers and also the painful Pacino and DeNiro team-up Righteous Kill. What Just Happened, whilst rather flawed, at least gets the old dog back into something resembling fighting shape, and shows that he still has it! A big shot Hollywood producer, Ben (DeNiro), is forced to sit through a disastrous test screening for a new film that he producing, Fiercely, caused primarily due to the fact that the film's protagonist (played by ...  Read the complete review

Ben (played by Robert De Niro) is a successful Hollywood film producer. His latest film, entitled 'Fiercely', has just had its first screen test and is met by far from positive responses from the audience. Some of the test cards are handed back with offensive comments and a few even have offensive pictures drawn on them. This is all down to the fact that the film's director Jeremy Brunell (Michael Wincott) insists that the lead character, played by Sean Penn (who plays himself in the film) and his dog are brutally murdered at the end. It seems as if the audience can accept a human being murdered but there is no way they will allow his pet dog to be shot in ...  Read the complete review