loaded question: what great comic actors have turned out to be even better dramatic actors?
Who are your favorite comics turned serious actors? Who has most memorably made such a transition?
Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves movie review: dudgeon and draggin’
A high-fantasy action comedy of tedious slapstick and obvious punchlines you scry the instant a wannabe medieval wag opens their mouth. It’s all borderline incoherent, sketched in cheap-looking CGI.
daily stream: a pandemic perfect cinematic storm
2021’s A Quiet Place: Part II leaves US Prime soon, and is new on UK Netflix.
daily stream: an inspiring portrait of a trans girl asking only to be herself
2020’s Little Girl is on Kanopy in the US, Curzon Home Cinema in the UK, and Mubi on both sides of the Atlantic.
daily stream: recovering from childhood, with a buddy
2014’s The Skeleton Twins is on Kanopy and Prime in the US, on Prime and Apple TV in the UK.
daily stream: a house that love builds (with a lot of help)
2020’s Herself is on Prime in the US, on Curzon Home Cinema in the UK.
daily stream: how watching affects the watchers
2007’s The Lives of Others is on Mubi in the US, on Sky Store in the UK.
daily stream: whistleblowing in a warmongering dystopia (a true story)
2019’s Official Secrets is on Netflix and Kanopy in the US, on BBC iPlayer in the UK.
loaded question: what’s something that, as a film nerd, you’re embarrassed to admit?
My embarrassing admission is that I have never owned a blu-ray player.
I was extremely absent last week, sorry about that…
I had a terrible week last week, which made it even more difficult than it has been lately for me to focus on anything productive. It’s all about the spoons…
