Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I think I hate this film.
To be clear, this is a 'comedy' about the current cost of living crisis, in which it is casually suggested that monetising your body, first in 'acceptable' ways like selling blood, plasma, hair, eggs, etc is a perfectly reasonable way to make money, and eventually of course by fucking your way out of poverty if you happen to look like Jennifer Lawrence (I actually find this significantly less objectionable than the previous options to…
I stayed up a bit too late last Wednesday night watching Romeo + Juliet (yes, that is the correct stylisation), Baz Luhrmann's wild first Hollywood project. A little later I commented that I both perfectly understood why the Minecraft movie exists, and also have no idea how it was approved.
These two things feel very linked.
The basic pitch is so obvious that it's sort of surprising more people seemingly didn't use it: in the teen movie 90s, already flush…