This moment when you are watching "Friends" and see Barry from "Parks and Recreation" :D
Annie: Who are you?
The Black Rider: I'm the bad guy.
My brain: DUH! [uncontrollably sings Bad Guy by Billie Eilish for the rest of the episode]
I love me a film noir flick. This was perfect. The music, the setting, the story… a typical detective flick, except with a twist. Or a tick, rather. Edward Norton shines again. Does his talent know no bound?
The last 5 minutes put this in uber Big Bang territory. The present reveal, the reaction and Sheldon's ultimate gift. Moments like this work so well prior to saturating the characters.
I love this movie, I'm glad I forgot the story after my first watch (years ago),
I'm glad I watched it again, thank you very much for reminding me this:
"Some-where down the line we stopped believing in ourselves even though we know we can still fulfill our dreams but we never trust ourselves enough to take the leap of faith."
The photographs in the end made it more real.
It's a love letter to cinema, music and nature, an ode to life and to love
If u wanna get the hell out of your home and have walk in the most beautiful places u can imagine ... Make sure u have Woody Allen to take u to Paris
This was Denmark’s entry into the very popular Scandi-Noir and it follows the tick-box for that genre perfectly, in fact, it follows a lot of police-thriller tick boxes regardless.
Troubled brooding cop – yup, a partner who wants to be friends but is pushed away but proves their worth – yup, a cold-case that all have given up on – yup, a clever and complex psycho who formulates an elaborate and fiendish scheme – yup.
Therein lies the rub. Despite some good miserable-sod acting and an overall brooding menace, there is little that has not been seen here before, in some cases better and in some cases a lot worse. If you have a problem with the ‘one-inch barrier’ of subtitles then you are definitely not going to like this offering.
I have to be honest I did not like the story or the film that much but I enjoyed the acting, particularly of the lead actors, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and the charismatic Fares Fares, who being a Muslim cop was in fact just Carl Morck’s partner – to the makers credit him being an Asian and a Muslim was very much secondary to the story and relationship to characters.
The cinematography kept pace with the films dark noir feel and pace was actually good for this type of film, no hanging about or drawing out ‘moments’ but overall the story, like all of these ‘Scandi-type’ stories was overwrought, silly and more bonkers than the makers' actual villain. Without spoiling the film events what the baddy does, how he does it, and why he does it, are truly, top-range preposterous, something that clicked a switch with me as I remembered The Bridge, Harry Hole and ‘The Girl the Fancied 40-Year Old Saggy Journalists’ films, TV shows and books. I stuck with them all but the overwhelming thing that I circled around to in all of them was the actual crime and criminal, the very hook, the whole reason for the entertainment, was bat-poopingly silly. James Bond in the cinema was always a flight of fancy and tongue-in-cheek act of fun but the Scanda-Noirs are supposed to be scary, intriguing. If you keep thinking ‘silly’ then this hasn’t worked for you.
This is obviously a personal prejudice but if like a cliff-hangar, a mystery and dogged by miserable, gruff cops then you will undoubtedly enjoy The Keeper of Lost Causes.
I wasn't expecting too much from this film - David Spade hasn't had a decent movie in the past 10 years, but this one is GREAT!
Laren Lapkus steals this movie, she's the date from hell at the beginning and you really don't want to see her again... but you do and she's perfect for the part.
I read some of the comments about this and don't understand why people are so hateful of this movie. It's funny from beginning to end with some really good LOL scenes. It's not a chick-flick it's a guys version of one, even my wife laughed a lot throughout.
Definitely recommend - 9/10
If you liked Mare of East Town earlier this year then you'll probably like this though it feels more somber in a certain way. Where Mare had the funny family dynamic to lift up the mood in every episode, American Rust is all about the perceived realities of living in a small town in the Rust Belt and people forgotten by the modern world who are just trying to get by. I like shows that portray the world outside the big cities so I'm looking forward to the rest of the season.
LESLIE KNOPE and BOBBY NEWPORT.
[7.6/10] The first half of this one comes off like a 2000s indie flick-ified version of Christopher Guest film, with a bunch of broadly comic characters being mixed and matched in a way that doesn't really fit with the down-to-earth tone director Sam Mendes seems to want to strike.
But in the back half, Away We Go go gets much better, leaving behind some of its hacky attempts at comedy (despite enlisting an incredible cast to deliver it), and embracing a more earnest approach to the way that parenthood causes to reflect on our own upbringing and to imagine what the future may hold as we try to build a new family.
Getting through that early portion can be a struggle, but it's worth it to get to the good stuff that comes in the latter half of the film, alongside a beautiful cinematographic travelogue and some great performances.
Got me touched in 2020. Nothing magical but a very warm movie for 2020.
This is one of the strangest movies I've seen in a while. On one hand it is very clearly a Hollywood movie, filled with Hollywood people. But on the other the whole thing plays more like a soap opera. Like a whole season of a soap opera that was edited down to a movie runtime.
I think every scene has a shocking revelation, or big twist, or dramatic confession. Every time you think you know what is going to happen with the rest of the movie, that whole thing either plays out in 5 minutes or the opposite happens.
Are you a sufferer of TSB (Twist Seeking Behaviour)? Then this is the movie for you.
