No one is likely to forget Ray Fiennes's manic dancing in A Bigger Splash, and how, in an instant, it's understood
why everyone in that film is so hopelessly drawn to the character.
Not exact matches
And
why does Lili have to say out loud what's obvious to
everyone watching the
film?!? One person at this movie summed it up by saying, «It wasn't the worst movie I ever saw... but it was
in the top 20.»
There are so many
films playing at the fest, and so many I'll end up seeing (30 +), that this is a quick list to get
everyone acquainted with some of the work premiering
in 2017 (and
why I'm so excited for these).
Morgan Freeman doesn't return (fans of the first
film know
why), but
everyone else is back on board: Bruce Willis as retired CIA agent Frank Moses, trying to settle into a life of domesticity; Mary - Louise Parker as his girlfriend Sarah, who wants more danger
in her life; John Malkovich as Marvin, whose rampant paranoia is proven to be justified as often as not; Helen Mirren as Victoria, the cucumber - cool killer who treats her profession like a hobby; and Brian Cox as Ivan, Victoria's Russian roll
in the hay.
No one expected RPO to recreate a mo - cap character
in a few months,
EVERYONE wondered
why his voice was left
in the
film.)
George Chrysostomou on nostalgia... Upon reading Anghus Houvouras's piece on
why everyone is hating on Ready Player One, a key theme of his argument really hit home — it struck me that there really ise a lot of nostalgia
in the current crop of
films and TV shows.
The sequence, fittingly titled «Belle,» features Watson as the titular character, fleshed out by the townspeople, made up of the
film's chorus, who — like the townspeople
in the animated version — don't understand
why Belle is all about the books, and not about acting like
everyone else.
Sure, the
film is technically unimpeachable, and it contains the most interesting Meryl Streep performance
in years, but it's easy to see how rushed this production was, and I wish
everyone involved had taken a little more time to round out the reasons
why they were making it and imbue it with a bit more heart and soul.
Although a certain cameo appearance
in Thor has been well and truly leaked on the interwebs, the recent snafu featuring
everyone's favourite Australian
film critic Jim Schembri makes this critic more wary of explicitly stating the who or
why, but let's just say that a brief appearance by another character from The Avengers occurs and it isn't
in the now - obligatory post-credit sequence featuring Samuel L. Jackson.
Everyone is still peeved at the way Liam ditched high school sweetheart Josie (Jessica Rothe, from Happy Death Day) on their wedding day — without explanation (an ambiguity that turns out to be preferable to the soapy, here's -
why - I - drink monologue we get from Liam
in the closing moments of the
film).
Stop me if you've heard this one before: a gruff CIA agent who suffers from PTSD and sees re-animated corpses at random moments is ordered to travel to the UK and hire Stanley Kubrick to
film a fake moon landing that the American government can use
in case the Apollo 11 mission turns out to be a tragic failure, only the agent (who is played by Ron Perlman, by the way) ends up giving a suitcase full of cash to a failed band manager and his perpetually stoned friend who looks a little bit like Stanley Kubrick, and those two idiots get robbed by the local mafia thugs right before Agent Ron Perlman realizes his mistake and threatens to kill
everyone involved — and THEN the idiotic band manager (who is played by Rupert Grint, by the way) proposes that they all head off to
film the fake moon landing with the help of a artistic hippie commune run by an egotistical dolt who can't understand
why he can't put giant jellyfish on the moon.
Everyone available seemingly wanted to appear
in this
film and once one sniffs out the marrow of the meandering plot it is easy to see
why.
Come to think of it, there's no reason
why this
film is set
in the 1980s —
everyone looks like they could be from the»90s or 2001, for that matter — except to give Carey a chance to cover and / or sample the R&B hits of the era (most prominently, Cherrelle's «I Didn't Mean to Turn You On»), which,
in the
film's storyline, are original hits by Billie — hence giving Miss Mariah a history - rewriting ego boost.