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.
Angel: Miss me? Lilah: Only in the sense of…no.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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megan walker - Aug 20, 2017 10:00:05 pm PDT #932 of 3463
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
megan walker - Aug 22, 2017 9:13:44 am PDT #933 of 3463
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
Tom Scola - Aug 22, 2017 3:56:34 pm PDT #934 of 3463
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
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.
Kalshane - Aug 22, 2017 8:23:38 pm PDT #935 of 3463
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Hopefully it's about Jared Leto's Juggalo Joker so I can continue to ignore it.
Tom Scola - Aug 26, 2017 3:52:36 pm PDT #936 of 3463
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
[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.
Vonnie K - Sep 02, 2017 11:31:09 am PDT #937 of 3463
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
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.
Fiona - Sep 02, 2017 11:33:27 am PDT #938 of 3463
Downsizing has had some excellent reviews. I'm dead jealous.
Vonnie K - Sep 02, 2017 11:42:02 am PDT #939 of 3463
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Oh, that's good to hear. I'm of two minds as to whether to read reviews coming out of Venice and Telluride Festivals that are going on right now. I mean, I've got the tickets so I'm going regardless (although I did hear the new Annett Benning movie "Films Stars Don't Die In Liverpool", which premiered in Telluride last night, wasn't All That, which made me pick "A Fantastic Woman" in its place this morning. Seems an A++ pick now that I've watched the trailer: [link]
Atropa - Sep 02, 2017 12:14:18 pm PDT #940 of 3463
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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!)
Oh, you lucky thing! I'm so excited for that.
Vonnie K - Sep 02, 2017 12:22:39 pm PDT #941 of 3463
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
This morning I read the first two lines of one of the reviews of its Venice premiere, and it said something to the tune of how it might be as good as, or possibly even better than, "Pan's Labyrinth." I hyperventilated and breathed out "shut UP" at the screen then closed the window without reading the review, hahaha.
(Basically I think "Pan's Labyrinth" is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius and del Toro's best film by FAR and now I have crazy expectations, which is sometimes not a good place to be.)