Film Shapes

The last couple of months have thrown up (and I use the term deliberately) some nasty prospects at the cinema. I'm talking specifically of the slew of (once) great actors appearing in roles ordinarily thought well beneath them. Case One : How the fuck did Robert De Niro go from this.....  ....to this? The film (?) is New Year's Eve -  full of pretty, vapid, talent-shy, model-cum-actors AND Robert De Niro!!?? That said, De Niro has some form with poor choices ( We're No Angels , The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle , Little Fockers and Righteous Kill for example). And so does the next perpetrator. Case Two : From this.....             ........to Journey 2: The Mysterious Island ? The near legendary Michael Caine seems to enjoy this flirting with dirge, as though he wants us to forget his roles in such classics as Get Carter (above), The Italian Job , The Man Who Would B...