Best thing: Delroy Lindo is always brilliant regardless of the quality of the production he is part of. I may have first seen him in Danny Boyle's A Life Less Ordinary as an angel/debt collector. I've never seen Congo (a quite star studded embarrassing flop by all accounts), but his line in that mocieos legendary: "Stop eating my sesame cake!" Here as the Marshall, Lindo is a badass with a level of wisdom and grace, somehow managing to feel like…
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Bad Times at the El Royale 2018
Is the option to grey-out movies on Letterboxd you've already logged new? Very handy. So looking through movies in 2018 this movie stood out like a sore film as a movie I've definitely already seen and still haven't reviewed. I felt like I needed to give it a second watch and then still didn't feel like I could say anything.
I love the opening. It gives a really cool and stylish set up for the mystery. Then we get a…
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Into the Wild 2007
Okay, I cannot for the life of me work out why anyone recommended this. (I've just tried and failed to work out where I saw this being recommended, so perhaps that was my imagination.) Okay, so there's good news and bad news and we're starting with the good news. So, what was good about this movie? The acting was really good from pretty much everyone (asides from Kristen Stewart - more on that later). The cinematography by Eric Gautier was…
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Scream 1996
I don't think the writer had a clue how mobile phones actually work, or phone records in general for that matter. The police seem to entirely forget that they can get the landline records very easily indeed and that would mean that they would know the exact times of any calls made. *sigh*
I know that Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox were considered big names at the time, but to be quite frank they aren't any more. And that's not…
