This film pissed me off. I had a general idea of the premise and really enjoyed the first act, but it quickly devolved into smug, preachy nonsense then made a full descent into bloated absurdity. I thought the performances were great, which made me even more annoyed because none of them could save this film from its sanctimonious self!
I finally watched this horror classic! I had a blast watching early noughties Boyle play in the sandbox of gritty, lo-fi storytelling, which has only made Yesterday (2019) feel even more like a terrible fever dream.
The king of music parodies has made the ultimate parody of music biopics! What could have been a standard comedy is a bizarre underdog story that’s punctuated with absurd melodrama, wild romance and violent action scenes. It’s a fantastic feat that exploits Yankovic’s bizarre public image and extremely private life to full effect. I got a kick out of the film’s portrayal of famously clean-living Yankovic as a drug-fuelled maniac, but as a mere casual listener of his music, questions…
In 2015, Aziah Wells chronicled an exceptionally perilous escapade under her Twitter pseudonym "Zola." Her thread is rife with intrigue, suspense, and absurdity, immersing readers in her life as a stripper and how she narrowly escaped sex trafficking after accepting an invitation to dance in Tampa, Florida. Zola’s voice is undeniable, it grabs you from the very first tweet: “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kinda long but full of suspense.”
Writer-director…
