#DailyStream weekly roundup
The #DailyStream is a once-per-day, single-movie-only streaming recommendation that appears both at my Substack and Patreon, and in truncated forms across my social media. They are free for everyone.
Snakes on a Plane
Plane movie review: ‘Sully,’ but make it badass
Entertainingly ridiculous? Or ridiculously entertaining? The slick of wild nonsense slapped over an uninspired undercoat is enjoyable enough while you’re onboard, and then it’s instantly forgettable.
weekend watchlist: an all man-(and woman)-versus-beast(s), all both-sides-of-the-pond special
In honor of the silly glory that is Idris Elba punching a lion in Beast. (First published September 4th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)
Beast (2022) movie review: he fights the lion
Idris Elba fights a lion. This is what we are promised and this is what we get. The purity is sort of beautiful. But is it a failure of the movie, or a success, that it treats such nonsense earnestly?
question of the day: If you were stuck on a ledge, how would you waste the time?
And why the heck are you on a ledge in the first place?
Man on a Ledge (trailer)
Like Snakes on a Plane, only instead of snakes on a plane, it’s a man on a ledge.
Shark Night 3D (trailer)
Where does the “night” part come in? Cuz it’s broad daylight in 99.99 percent of this trailer.
‘Smurfs on a Plane’: a Smurfs movie I wouldn’t mind seeing
Because I hate the little blue buggers, I could not refrain from indulging in some mad Photoshop science on ’em.
trailer break: ‘Women in Trouble’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… So, I had been assuming from the poster: that the trouble these women are in involves not being able to dress themselves — as if, perhaps, they were mentally deficient or something. And the trailer appears to bear this out. The mentally deficient part, at least, since … more…
Snakes on a Plane: a totally ironic and yet kinda not movie review
A superb contemporary example of cinema du serpent, wittily harkening back to its thematic progenitors, but it is a marvelous achievement in its own right, too…
