Comet raptures the world leaving teen sisters Samantha and Regina to wander around. There’s some scientists being creepy.
The premise sounded funny but then I started watching and I was really bored. I enjoyed the ending with Regina trying to form a law abiding conventional family with hector and two 8 year olds they found in a desolate wasteland. I also enjoyed the mall scene and the various outfit wearing marauders.
It’s not as funny as you think it should…
When Willy wonka was a young man he apparently got a hit out on him by the chocolate mafia while legally enslaved in a laundromat because he can’t read.
I went in cynical but I had a pretty good time. Didn’t finish it but so far I enjoyed Hugh Grant Oompa Loompa, wonka’s mini chocolate factory (the kind of thing that would’ve inhabited my childhood imagination for weeks after watching), and Keegan Michael key as a chocolate obsessed cop. Would’ve…
The weird overlay effects they use in the outdoor birds scenes are a little silly to the modern eye but the scenes inside the house are so unsettling.
I found Melanie and Mitch very strange. Their meeting and then blossoming romance(?) didn’t make sense to me. Melanie’s a prankster whose father owns a newspaper and Mitch is a lawyer who lives with his mom and is essentially responsible for her and his 11 year old sister.
And then Melanie just…
Former tennis phenomenon Tashi becomes the coach to her husband Art. Mid-late in his career he’s fizzling out to both of their dissatisfactions. He hopes for a morale pickup in a challenger tournament but uhoh his ex bestie/roommate/doubles partner/ tashi’s ex boyfriend is in the same tournament. Messy emotional baggage abounds
I really enjoyed the structure of this movie. It’s nice and tight, focuses right in on Tashk, art and pat. Starting at this turning point match (not a big…
