The Night Before is also far funnier for having him in it.
The Night Before is also far funnier for having him in it.
What I love about Michael Shannon is that he's assuredly one of the most intimidating actors on the planet, but he's secretly also one of the funniest, albeit in his own way. This movie showcases both his menace and his gift for deadpan.
He's genuinely freaky in this movie, for what it's worth. I never would have thought he had it in him.
What I truly loved about this movie's central twist is that if anything it subverted the cliche of a dead child motivating the protagonist (case in point: Gravity). At the start the daughter subplot looked like just another hastily assembled backstory, but when it turned out Louise had less comprehension of those…
His Officer Fuzzyface is a true classic. "Wait a second. The 134 doesn't go to the beach, unless you took it to the ten? Hold on, this pen isn't a bic!? No! NO! NONE OF THIS ADDS UP AT ALL! Wait…..that man's wife was a…CHICKEN!!!!"
I'll never tire of his alternately soothing and disturbing, ever quiet voice. It's surely a sin to make him shout.
Between this and Swiss Army Man, 2016 is really hitting the nail on the head when it comes to high concept, semi-deceased gay love stories.
Is it fair to call it one of my favourite movies of 2016? Probably not, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
When Kelly cracks that joke about Yorkie dying in 6 months, and she specifies 5? How about Y freaking out at the car crash in the arcade game. Hot damn was this a well constructed episode.
Can we get a 15 minute long montage of him aimlessly rowing while Ben Nichols' Last Pale Light In the West plays? Y'know, just to catch us up on what he's been up to these last 3 years…
I have mixed feeling about this….
A story about how Naomie Harris shot all her scenes in 3 days is what really caught my eye, and the more I've learned the more I've become semi-obsessed with seeing it. Plus, Mahershala Ali. I've been watching him in thankless roles for forever, but it wasn't until Luke Cage that I realised how long I've been waiting…
Edit the trailer correctly and it looks like a weird post-apocalyptic indie drama a la Maggie or The Road. Here's hoping it actually earns that Cash song.
Daniel Kaluuya's big climactic speech earns him a life pass as far as I'm concerned. After that episode I vowed to watch everything he's in.
"BRAAP BRAAP. PEW PEW. A DARING BATTLE CRY FROM THE SELF APPOINTED NEW VOICE OF CHOICE. BUT HAS THE CONCEPT OF WOMEN HAVING CHOICES GONE TOO FAR?! WE HAVE ASSEMBLED THIS DIVERSE PANEL OF WHITE MEN IN BOWTIES TO TALK ABOUT ABORTION!!
I also loved how Emily was immediately ok with it and there was barely any fuss raised. More of the understated progressivism, (as another put it), this season's been really good at.
His true name is Bradley Hitler-Smith. Never 4get.
Almost immediately following a tragic drug overdose with a golden Labrador saving an underwater city from an onrush of giant spaghetti is basically this show in a nutshell.
That opening flashback was fucking agonising. Seeing Sarah Lynn go from joyful to crestfallen was hard enough, but worse still was Bojack clearly being entirely aware of how selfish and stupid his pitch was and still half-heartedly going through with it. Their mutual discomfort by the end of the scene was so palpable…
But why couldn't he have almost molested someone in Hawaii?! THEY COULD'VE BEEN BUMMED OUT AT A SPA!