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The actual Sixth Century AD legendary characters speaking and acting like modern London thugs, not so much.
We're still watching this (continued from last night), and honestly, who looked at the Arthurian legend and thought, "What this story needs is a bunch of Cockneys"?
We're still watching this (continued from last night), and honestly, who looked at the Arthurian legend and thought, "What this story needs is a bunch of Cockneys"?
Perhaps they got him confused with Arthur Daley? [link]
Oh, my god, they call him Art.
If you like a good caper, Logan Lucky is pretty near perfect. I even liked Adam Driver and that is no mean feat.
Excellent script that makes me hope Rebecca Blunt really is a woman, and especially that it's not Soderbergh.
Finally have a bit of a work gap and it's a movie sort of week I guess. Yesterday I saw Ingrid Goes West with Aubrey Plaza. Hard to watch at times, with lots to say about social media and loneliness and obsession/addiction. A+ performances all around but especially by Plaza as Ingrid.
Martin Scorsese and Todd Phillips Are Developing A Joker Origin Story Movie
Because if there is one character in all of superhero comics who least requires an origin story, it's the Joker.
Hopefully it's about Jared Leto's Juggalo Joker so I can continue to ignore it.
[On the set of Pacific Rim,] Japanese child actress Mana Ashida (little Mako) was embarrassed that she couldn't pronounce Guillermo Del Toro's name so he gave her special permission to call him "Totoro-san" instead.
The selection process for Toronto International Film Festival remains as ulcer-inducing as ever. I'd redeemed my 20 film Flex Package earlier in the week and topped them up with a few extra films this morning, which was TIFF members single ticket purchase window. Outage issues galore at the TIcketmaster website (I only pulled out my hair just a little), but it seems I'm squared away now.
Well, 24 movies in 9 days ain't that bad, is it? (My eyeballs!) There are folks who are watching 40+ films during the fest. When and if they have time to eat and sleep is a mystery.
Basically the only film I desperately wanted to see was a "The Shape of Water", Guillermo del Toro's genderflipped cold war mermaid fairy tale and I managed to snag a ticket for that (woo!). There are other interesting-sounding films among the lot I got -- "Manhunt", which is the new John Woo action movie, the new Martin McDonaugh/Frances McDormand, Alexander Payne's "Downsizing", "Death of Stalin" from Armando Iannucci, who was behind The Thick of It and Veep, and the William Moulton Marston biopic hot in the heels of Wonder Woman.
Downsizing has had some excellent reviews. I'm dead jealous.