It’s a case of gender-swapping just not making a lick of sense. Everyday straight male divorce lawyers who look like Vince Vaughan and Owen Wilson can’t get laid with random/new people at will, so their labors for hanky-panky have the potential to be funny. A woman who looks like Sandra Bullock, on the other hand, can…
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Fair enough. All About Steve is a lot of things, but it’s not boring.
“too off-putting to be worth sitting through for some ‘so bad it’s good’ fun” - Strong disagree there, this is probably the most entertaining awful movie I’ve ever seen. (Disclaimer: I haven’t seen The Room, only The Disaster Artist. But, solid budget and production values aside, this definitely strikes me as a…
Another big Stahl fan from Carnivàle and T3 here. I always thought that, while no one could made George Lucas’ dialogue for Anakin Skywalker sing, Stahl could at least have sold it better than anyone else. Here’s hoping he stays well, and that he gets/continues to get great roles that challenge him again.
“a trio of bankable stars” - er... Gadot hasn’t been in the lead role of any hit movie that wasn’t about the world’s most famous superheroine. Her non-WW bankability seems to be untested.
Several hundred, or maybe several thousand, very real people whose lives suddenly got very awkward when meeting anyone new about 20 years ago.
The first four books/movies were fine and charming. Starting with Year 5, however, things dove right off a cliff. Instead of the world expanding, as the visitors from the other schools during Year 4 promised, the story shrank, with most of Year 7 being a boring slog of an isolated camping trip, culminating in a absurd…
Starring TNG’s Reg Barclay as Oppenheimer!
Gunshots often are digital, of course. And, what with digital doubles, one could extend the safety argument to all sorts of driving/motorcycle stunts. But actors probably prefer a real recoil to jerking their arms, and especially in scenes with lots of guns going off, it would probably be hard to believably simulate…
Canada is more litigious than the US?!
Yeah, from what I understand of the show based on casually skimming reviews, it sounds like a part-anthology series already...
I was also certain the previous one came out just last year, but maybe I was mixing it up with Scoob...
I’ve seen Freaky. Fun, and kinda charming? Sure. “Great?” Nah.
Well, this is a movie that thinks you can fly from the East Coast to Britain in a Cessna or something. It’s a very bad, extremely dumb flick.
That’s perfectly fair. As a recap-heavy review of the pilot, I found the piece fine. But would I say it succeeds at describing the general outline of the show to someone unfamiliar with the books in an elegant, lucid way, as one might hope from a pop culture web site built on great prose? Not so much.
Depends on what you’re looking for. For a recap review, it’s fine. For those who’ve read the whole series, it’s a bit superficial. But for those who haven’t read a page of the books, it’s a pretty big list of characters and subplots dumped in a hurry.
Aye, but somehow, Y: The Last Man - Except for Several Hundred Thousand Others, and Maybe Some Trans Folks, if We Decide to Maybe Go in that Direction a Little Bit doesn’t have quite the same ring...
Yeah, that’s not a valid excuse for a regressive, one-note character.
“I personally don’t think she’s a hero - I’m just surprised that nobody does. Tripp blew the whistle on the most powerful man in the world.”
Given how cartoonishly adolescent-boy-wish-fulfillment Lily James’ role in Baby Driver was, I can absolutely picture Wright totally whiffing a movie with a woman protagonist.