cinema is not a very big deal
Glasgow, Scotland
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
— elle fanning seems like she’s off her face on drugs for every scene except the one where she’s actually supposed to be high
— why does his mum come out as a former sex worker to him in the last ten minutes of this film?
— “You're dating a girl from Arizona. What do you guys talk about, cactus?” (academy award winning writer wrote this)
— there’s a six minute (I counted) scene in this which serves absolutely no…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Jerry Falk: I was just saying how strange life is, how full of inexplicable mystery.
Cab Driver: Well, you know, it's like anything else.
Anything Else is one of the lowest-rated Woody
Allen films on Letterboxd (and there are 57) with an average rating of 3.0 — below his strange, solitary musical (‘Everyone Says I Love You’), his televisual half-arsed millenium comedy Small Time Crooks, and below his French film Coup de Chance, which, as his most recent, really flew…
“Freud said, ‘Love and work. Work and love. That's all there is.’ Well, I'm retired, and my wife is dead.”
I enjoyed this, even though the stakes are almost nonexistent and the one big tension in the film isn’t resolved very well. Grandpa De Niro is cute and Anne Hathaway is an overworked Queen 👸🏻
Even drank some wine🍷 with this bad boy
John Goodman playing a complete moron and a nobody who is completely calm in the face of a hostage situation and calling the perpetrators “fuckin amateurs” the whole time is genius