Came here to recommend this. As an avowed devotee of Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, Lupino Lane, and their ilk, this thrilled me through and through. It's not perfect (a shade too long, could use a bit more character depth), but as live-action cartoons go, it's like a rocket sled on rails.
There are several that are not exactly 'new new' but recent that I thought were worthy of a Nathan Rabin consideration. They are all strangely related on a sort of Meta level as well. By this, I mean mediocre to bad movies that were all sent to streaming that only exist because they got some shockingly famous actors to star in them. Two come to mind immediately-- Wolfs staring Brad Pitt and George Clooney. A movie that clearly was born of some Holywood Producer saying "What if we did a movie about The Wolf from Pulp Fiction but instead of one there would be two Wolfs. And we pay Brad Pitt and George Clooney giant truckloads of money to do it." The second is The Instigators staring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck as bumbling robbers in a sort of buddy heist action comedy mess. Chocked full of talent (including Ving Ryames, Alfred Molina, and Ron Perlman) but truly just incomprehensible trainwreck of a movie. Finally, if you were feeling truly masochistic this week I noticed (only because my wife loves Hallmark style Christmas movies) that Netflix hired Lindsay Lohan to do a Christmas Romantic Comedy. Fertil ground for analysis if you can survive.
This weekend, Apple plus is opening up their shows to everyone... Could be a good to write about "Severance"? (It's a TV show, not a movie, but it's so, so good)
Honestly? The last movie I remember opening on January 3 of any year was “Head Office” in 1986. It had Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Rick Moranis… and others that I do not remember.
It's not new exactly, but have you seen/written about Hundreds of Beavers yet? Best movie of 2024, far as I'm concerned.
Came here to recommend this. As an avowed devotee of Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, Lupino Lane, and their ilk, this thrilled me through and through. It's not perfect (a shade too long, could use a bit more character depth), but as live-action cartoons go, it's like a rocket sled on rails.
new Wallace & Gromit sequel to The Wrong Trousers on Netflix Jan 3
Ooh! That's a good one. Love me some Wallace and Gromit
Nothing is opening wide until next week when we have two prototypical January movies:
Robbie Williams is a Monkey: The Musical
and
Den of Thieves 2: "There was a Den of Thieves 1?"
There are several that are not exactly 'new new' but recent that I thought were worthy of a Nathan Rabin consideration. They are all strangely related on a sort of Meta level as well. By this, I mean mediocre to bad movies that were all sent to streaming that only exist because they got some shockingly famous actors to star in them. Two come to mind immediately-- Wolfs staring Brad Pitt and George Clooney. A movie that clearly was born of some Holywood Producer saying "What if we did a movie about The Wolf from Pulp Fiction but instead of one there would be two Wolfs. And we pay Brad Pitt and George Clooney giant truckloads of money to do it." The second is The Instigators staring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck as bumbling robbers in a sort of buddy heist action comedy mess. Chocked full of talent (including Ving Ryames, Alfred Molina, and Ron Perlman) but truly just incomprehensible trainwreck of a movie. Finally, if you were feeling truly masochistic this week I noticed (only because my wife loves Hallmark style Christmas movies) that Netflix hired Lindsay Lohan to do a Christmas Romantic Comedy. Fertil ground for analysis if you can survive.
I agree about Hundreds of Beavers.
This weekend, Apple plus is opening up their shows to everyone... Could be a good to write about "Severance"? (It's a TV show, not a movie, but it's so, so good)
Don't have time to write up a television show.
The Damned opens, so that's something. Me, I'm going during the day so this week is catch up. Doubling A Complete Unknown and Wicked.
There’s an Irish horror movie called The Damned opening that I plan on seeing tomorrow.
Honestly? The last movie I remember opening on January 3 of any year was “Head Office” in 1986. It had Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Rick Moranis… and others that I do not remember.
Jane Seymour? (This is from memory, but it's ringing a bell.)