What Is The Last Film You Watched? (2020 films)

[Jay 37,336]

 

The Sleepover

 

Cute movie good for the whole family where Malin Åkerman and Ken Marino are a a "boring" suburban couple with two kids, until it turns out Åkerman is in the witness protection program after living a life as a world-class thief, unbeknownst to Marino.  Joe Manganiello is her ex-fiancé much to Marino's shagrin, and they all get involved in a new theft they must pull off at a fancy gala.  The other half of the film follows their kids are they make their own way to Boston from the suburbs after realizing who their mom truly was.  Harmless fun, and it was nice seeing filming locations I recognized.  It's on netflix

[Jay 37,336]

 

Lost Girls and Love Hotels

 

Alexandria Daddario continues to be in crap movies, this one one of the more befuddling and muddy.  It's sort of an attempt to be some kind of an erotic thriller, but doesn't develop its characters or story well and it's particularly erotic or thrilling.  Daddario is a drunk working out issues from her past by barely getting by in modern day Japan and ends up in a relationship with a married Yakuza enforcer.  You know it's a problem when it was filmed in 2017 and didn't release until 2020.  It's on Hulu but avoid at all costs

[bollemanneke 3,342]

Blithe spirit. I honestly don’t really know how to feel about it. First act was great. Second act had good bits, but alas, also contained spellcasting and nearly lost me completely. Third act was… pretty good? I feel like having watched Beetlejuice all over again, though that ending was even better. The score is predictable, but fine all the same too, the cast is perfect and Isla Fisher sometimes reminded me of Nicole Kidman (and made a few accent mistakes).

[Jay 37,336]

 

Dating Amber

 

This is an adorable Irish comedy/drama set in the 1990s, in the Irish countryside - Gorgeous!  The plot concerns two gay high school students who cannot come out (because it's the 90s, the Irish countryside), so agree to pretend to be in a relationship with each other to get everyone off their backs - and a friendship, and series of wacky adventures, ensues.  Various trips to Dublin open their eyes to a larger, more accepting world, and the various characters they encounter are all interesting too.  Cute movie!
 

It's on HBO Max

[Jay 37,336]

 

The Rhythm Section

 

Wowzers, this was a BAD movie.  This is the movie produced by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson that came out before No Time To Die, the only non-Bond movie Eon Production has made.  It stars Blake Lively as a London sex worker who is traumatized by her parents accidental death in a plane crash 3 years prior.  A journalist approaches her about potential subterfuge being behind the crash, she tries to kill a supposed bomb maker, and next thing you know she's being trained by Jude Law to become this spy/assassin and expose a cover-up and the truth about the crash.

It's just terrible on every level, from the wig they hid Blake Lively in to how quickly she becomes this great assassin to the muddled and forgettable conspiracy plot.  Real bad!

 

It was free on some service at the time, looks like it isn't any more

[LSH 968]

16 hours ago, Jay said:

 

The Rhythm Section

 

Wowzers, this was a BAD movie.  This is the movie produced by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson that came out before No Time To Die, the only non-Bond movie Eon Production has made.  It stars Blake Lively as a London sex worker who is traumatized by her parents accidental death in a plane crash 3 years prior.  A journalist approaches her about potential subterfuge being behind the crash, she tries to kill a supposed bomb maker, and next thing you know she's being trained by Jude Law to become this spy/assassin and expose a cover-up and the truth about the crash.

It's just terrible on every level, from the wig they hid Blake Lively in to how quickly she becomes this great assassin to the muddled and forgettable conspiracy plot.  Real bad!

 

It was free on some service at the time, looks like it isn't any more

 

Yep, it's pretty rubbish.

[Jay 37,336]

Right?  Like how could Wilson and Broccoli decide to make this script out of everything that likely comes across their desks?  Why did they take a gorgeous lead actress and hide her under the worst wig I've seen in a while?  Why are the action scenes so boring? Why is the conspiracy plot so muddled?  It just sucks.

[Sweeping Strings 2,351]

The Rhythm Section - the comprehensive box-office failure of this presumably means that it will be the first and last non-Bond globetrotting action thriller that EON ever produce. It's actually not bad, with a life-now-in-ruins Blake Lively setting off on a path of vengeance after learning that the aircraft accident that killed her family was in fact due to terrorism.

[crocodile 7,998]

I almost fell asleep at the cinema watching this so my memory of it feels bit fuzzy. Interesting premise, horrible execution.

 

Karol

[Jay 37,336]

Right? I couldn't believe how bad it turned out! 

[Edmilson 7,426]

The Empty Man

 

How come I haven't heard about this movie until yesterday? It's pretty good!

 

The movie is a mix of my favorite horror tropes, from creepy cults and urban legends to Lovecraftian horror. Also, the grim, subdued atmosphere (similar to The Ring or Sinister) and emphasis on dread instead of jump scares (there's not a lot of them) also are exactly what I look for when choosing a horror flick.

 

Sure, the script may not make much sense in how it mixes these ingredients, but it's still a great, fun and creepy ride.

[HunterTech 989]

2 hours ago, Edmilson said:

The Empty Man

 

My main awareness of this movie is from what's probably Chris Young's best horror track in ages:

 

 

Don't know if the rest of the score sounds like this (though given who Lustmord is, plus knowing how Virtuosity was handled, I really doubt it).

[Edmilson 7,426]

17 minutes ago, HunterTech said:

My main awareness of this movie is from what's probably Chris Young's best horror track in ages:

 

The rest of the score is much more subdued than that, just the usual creepy synths, plus a piano-led love theme of sorts. When this cue appeared at the end of the movie it was pretty jarring, considering how subtle the score has been until that moment.

 

However, as much as I like Chris Young's horror epics, this movie surely benefits from a less flashy score, it surely helps on the atmosphere.

[Jay 37,336]

 

How To Build A Girl

 

Pretty charming part coming-of-age tale, part rise to fame and fall back to grace story set in 1993 West Midlands, England starring Beanie Feldstein as a high school student who dreams of becoming a writer.  She takes after her father (Paddy Considine, who I had never even heard of before HOTD) in that way, who had dreamed of being a rock star before getting married and having 5 children.  The house is so crowded she has to share  bedroom with her brother, and finally gets a chance to spread her wings when a music review submitted to a London music mag seemingly gives her a chance.  After being humiliated when it turns out they did not like her review and didn't think she'd show up, she reinvents herself as "Dolly Wilde" complete with bright red hair and flashy outfits and is able to start following local bands, and scores her first interview with an up and comer played by Alfie Allen.  

 

Many themes are touched on as she falls in love with the rock and roll lifestyle, her articles become extremely popular, and she has to balance her life on the road with her high school and home life, including her dad wanting to use her new position to promote his album.  The film gets a bit muddled in this part, her rise to fame is shown as happening over just a few months when it should have taken much longer, and the ending feels like it's more of a setup for a sequel that will never happen than a significant point being made, but the charm level throughout keeps it watchable.

 

There's fun cameos by Jameela Jamil, Chris O'Dowd, and Emma Thompson in here too, and it's fairly funny throughout despite not being any major hilarious moments.

It's on AMC+

 

[Jay 37,336]

 

The Sunlit Night

 

Charming movie where Jenny Slate is a struggling artist in America who ends up moving to Norway (a part with 24 hour sunlight) to helped a renowned artist paint a barn for a new art project.  Along the she meets many colorful characters including ones played by Alex Sharp, Zach Galifianakis, and Gillian Anderson, has some personal growth, and deals with some of her issues.  It's cute

 

It's on Hulu and Kanopy

[LSH 968]

4 hours ago, Jay said:

set in 1993 West Midlands, England

 

Literally on my doorstep then. Never heard of it but I'll certainly give it a look. Right now, actually.

[Jay 37,336]

Nice!

 

If nothing else it was cool to see Paddy Considine outside HOTD (which maybe everyone but me already had lol)

[LSH 968]

26 minutes ago, Jay said:

Nice!

 

If nothing else it was cool to see Paddy Considine outside HOTD (which maybe everyone but me already had lol)

 

I watched it and I really enjoyed it. Feldstein's Yam Yam accent is a bit off but better than most I've heard (even from British actors). I appreciate the effort.

 

Lots of great British talent in this, mostly cameos... and more than a few that audiences outside of the UK wouldn't notice. Bob Mortimer for one, one of my favourite comedians... And Joanna Scanlan (who plays her school teacher)... better known for her role as the useless civil servent in The Thick Of It.

[Jay 37,336]

Yea, I thought it was kind of strange that they hired an American actress for the role instead of a Brit!

[Edmilson 7,426]

42 minutes ago, Jay said:

If nothing else it was cool to see Paddy Considine outside HOTD

Haven't you seen The Bourne Ultimatum? He has a small, but memorable role there.

[Jay 37,336]

Prior to HOTD, I would have seen him in Cinderella Man, Hot Fuzz, Bourne Ultimatum, The World's End, and The Death of Stalin, though never took note of any of those performances, or recalled the name when I saw it in HOTD's opening credits.  As far as I knew he was a new actor to me  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Sweeping Strings 2,351]

5 hours ago, LSH said:

 

I watched it and I really enjoyed it. Feldstein's Yam Yam accent is a bit off but better than most I've heard (even from British actors). I appreciate the effort.

 

Lots of great British talent in this, mostly cameos... and more than a few that audiences outside of the UK wouldn't notice. Bob Mortimer for one, one of my favourite comedians... And Joanna Scanlan (who plays her school teacher)... better known for her role as the useless civil servent in The Thick Of It.

Love Bob ... Gone Fishing with him and Paul Whitehouse is a brilliant bit of telly. The combination of banter and bickering, the achingly beautiful bits of countryside they fish in and their often poignant reflections on life as late-middle-aged men who have both had heart-health issues are enough to leave one sighing with pleasure.    

[Jay 37,336]

 

Clementine

 

This was a surprisingly enjoyable and interesting thriller/drama by first time writer/director Lara Gallagher filmed in the pacific northwest, whose moody overcast atmosphere perfectly accompanied the tone of the story.

 

Late 20s Karen (Otmara Marrero) is reeling from being dumped by her older (mid 40s) girlfriend D (Sonya Walger), and breaks into her ex's lake house to get away from life.  There she meets teenage Lana (Sydney Sweeney), and the two develop an interesting, provocative, complicated friendship / more than friendship?  Also around is Beau, who does work on the property for D... but is he reporting back to D what Karen is up to, or does he want something else?

 

The stakes are relatively low and the burn is very slow, but the slow burn draws you into these characters and their situations.  Interesting dynamics about the age gap in relationships and life experiences are explored.  It's pretty good.

 

It's on Kanopy & Peacock

[Jay 37,336]

 

Let Him Go

 

I guess I never posted when I saw this movie, which I only really did because I'm a Giacchino completist.

 

It ended up being not terrible, but not great either.  Kevin Costner and Diane Lane are a couple in 1960s Montana who lose their son in the beginning of the movie, leaving his wife alone with their newborn baby.  A couple years later she remarries into a sketchy family and then promptly leave town.  Costner and Lane then set out to track down their grandchild and hopefully bring him home, away from the sketchy family.  Much suspense ensues until we finally get to an explosive climax.

 

It was alright - nothing remarkable, but not terrible either.  The cast carries alot of the film on its back.  Though I watched it for the score, it doesn't make a strong impression at all.

[Jay 37,336]

 

Shithouse

 

WOW!!!  This is not only one of the best films I've seen in a while, it's easily one of the best films of 2020, if not THE best, that I've seen.

It's the debut film by Cooper Raiff (who recently had a hit with Cha Cha Real Smooth), who writes, directs, and stars.  Dylan Gelula (Xander from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) co-stars, and both leads give fantastic, realistic, down-to-earth performances that were engaging the entire movie.

 

One part Before Sunrise, one part When Harry Met Sally, one part Animal House, and the rare coming-of-age story about a college student rather than high-school or younger.  The plot involves a college freshman Alex (Raiff), who is lonely, has made no friends, lies to his mother about that, and just can't find a way to fit it.  His roommate seems to hate him, and his attempt to talk to a girl at a party goes nowhere.  Then he strikes up a conversation with sophomore Maggie (Gelula) and they have one of those all night conversations / bonding moments.  But when she is aloof the next day, he doesn't know what to do and many more things happen from there.

This film is touching, relatable, funny, and just so well made.  It's largely just two people having a conversation for most of its run time, yet is never boring or meandering.  Every conversation reveals more and more about their characters.  Are there are other scenes with Alex's roomate, Maggie's friends, Alex on the phone with his mother and sister, and them at parties that all advance everything forward as well.

 

It's quite remarkable debut - Raiff originally filmed a shorter version of a similar idea on spring break, then dropped out of college to film this.  The whole film is shot at his college and some neighborhoods in LA but doesn't feel particularly low budget, no more-so than Before Sunrise.  Raiff is certainly no acting genius, but the character is written to his strengths so the performance is fantastic, and Gelula is right on the same page.  I can't wait to see Cha Cha Real Smooth now!

 

It's on AMC+ and Showtime

[Jay 37,336]

 

Ammonite

 

A low-key drama about a paleontologist (Kate Winslet) in who has settled into a quite life running a fossil shop (were those a thing at some point?) in a small village on the English coast in the 1840s after her scientific career stalled out.  She seems content to take care of her mother and live a quiet, unassuming life until a series of events lead to her taking care of a rich customer's wife (Saoirse Ronan).  From here romance blossoms and before long she has to decide whether to upend her life or not, and under what parameters...

 

It's undercooked, with so much time spent on atmosphere and setting there is not enough time spent on all the factors at play in the decision she has to make at the end, leaving it unsatisfying.  Their relationship is also shown to almost entirely a sexual one with little romance, and more of the latter would have gone a long way to making the ending work as well.

 

It's on Kanopy

[bollemanneke 3,342]

The father.

 

Very, very moving. Sometimes hard to watch and surprisingly, Hopkins’ character needed some time to grow on me, but I obviously can’t say a negative word about the cast, although that final nurse wasn’t very professional. I thought you were supposed to always go along with the train of thought of someone with dementia? Rewatch is in order and part of me wants a chronological cut. A bigger part of me realises that’s the last thing I need.

The score is equally heart-breaking. The first cue wasn’t my thing, but all the other ones were so spot on.

[filmmusic 1,825]

8 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:

The score is equally heart-breaking.

I see it's a short score.

Was it equally short in the film? Or are we missing cues?

[bollemanneke 3,342]

Yes, it's quite short.

[Jay 37,336]

 

Underwater

 

I largely enjoyed this creature feature, thought it certainly isn't without its flaws.  The weakest aspect is the script - this is just another Alien ripoff, with a dash of The Abyss, an unnecessary comic relief character, and the addition of... well, that would be a spoiler.  The set design is largely comprised of your typical sci-fi corridors, the exterior shots are a bit murky and not very exhilarating, and the characters are not drawn very deep. 

 

However, the film is somehow better than the sum of its parts, thanks largely to the acting performance from Kristen Stewart in the lead role.  She's in almost every scene, and grabs your attention right from the first scene all the way through her big moment at the end.  Most of the supporting cast - Vincent Cassel, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher Jr, and Mamoudou Athie - do pretty fine jobs with what they're given.  But TJ Miller's comic relief character is annoying.  I get why he's there - without him being that way, the entire movie would be completely serious - he's the only funny thing in it.  But maybe a completely serious creature feature would have been better?

 

It's not great, but it's not a hard watch.  The creatures are the best part, and I like how they escalate, in size and danger, as the film goes on.

 

It's on Hulu

[Jay 37,336]

 

A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

 

This is an impressive independent Irish crime thriller, anchored by a seriously impressive acting performance by Sarah Bolger, who I had never even heard of before!

She plays a recently widowed single mother of two young children, trying to keep her life together after her husband's murder, the police's refusal to investigate, and her son's self-mute status since the husband's death.  The character development is handled so well and so uniquely, such as in an early scene where she just wants to get off and go to sleep but her vibrator's batteries are dead so she crawls around finding her children's toys to open up and take the batteries out of.  And what's clever is that this sequence isn't just about character development but has a payoff late in the film that made me laugh out loud.

 

The drama comes into things when a local thief breaks into her house to hide his drug stash and threatens her into keeping quiet, and everything that ensues from that.  The proceeding continuous turn of events reminded me of Blue Ruin a bit, and I liked the final resolution of everything.

 

Cool little flick, with a handful of scenes that really left a lasting impression - not to mention the great acting performance by Bolger.  I must check out her other work!

 

It's on Kanopy, Shudder, and AMC+

[Jay 37,336]

 

Horse Girl

 

OK,I have now seen 4 of Jeff Baena's 5 films (Life After Beth, The Little Hours, Spin Me Round, and now this), and he is certainly one of the more diverse directors around!  All these films are pretty different from one another, though one thing I noticed they all have in common is very strange, or at least unusual endings.  They're either deflated, not bringing a final punch the film seemed to be setting up, or so ambiguous you're left wondering what statement was trying to be made, or maybe some combination of both.  This ending is sort of along those lines, but probably more effective than any of the others.

The movie itself was pretty effective: Alison Brie plays a lonely 30something working at a craft store, dealing with the suicide death of her mother, and becomes more and more convinced she's a clone, a victim of alien abduction or maybe both as the course of the film goes on.  We get to see her awkwardly meet a guy and fumble dating him because of her thoughts, crazily pursue people she swears she met in her dreams before seeing them in real life, and suffering time loss and potential sleep walking on top.  The supporting cast is fantastic: 3 Search Party veterans (John Reynolds, Meredith Hagner, Jay Duplass), Paul Reiser (the Reisner-sance is real!), Molly Shannon, Robin Tunney, Dylan Gelula, Lauren Weedman, and even the great Toby Huss and the great David Paymer.

 

Many peple will get frustrated watching the main character slowly unravel and be so exasperated all the time, but Brie does act the hell out of it all, and everyone else is good too.  It's a weird movie, but for me in the good category of weird movies.

 

It's on Netflix

[Jay 37,336]

@Glóin the Dark, did you see Shithouse?

[Glóin the Dark 1,220]

I did - I liked it a lot, especially the first two-thirds. For the last part it felt like the story and the characters were being somewhat manhandled to reach a certain destination, after having been allowed to unfold very naturalistically for the first hour or so. I hope Raiff leans more towards his Linklater side in future films (Cha Cha Real Smooth isn't bad but it's a more conventional type of film than Shithouse, and I feel that I remember less about it despite having seen it much more recently).

 

Of the films you've reviewed on this page Ammonite is the the only one (of those I've seen - 8 out of the 13 if my counting is correct) that I'd rate higher. I had similar feelings about it towards the end, coincidentally; it also had a slight whiff of contrivance that meant I didn't entirely buy its last few scenes.

[Jay 37,336]

Oh wow that's interesting.  I thought Shithouse was brilliant all the way through, and the ending was earned naturally by what came before it

 

Ammonite yea, I hear what you're saying

[Glóin the Dark 1,220]

On 05/02/2023 at 3:33 PM, Jay said:

...the ending was earned naturally by what came before it

 

I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that, insofar as the overall story was concerned - "manhandled" was probably a bit over the top. It's more the style of the film that I felt there was a change in, and I liked the earlier "hangout" style most.

[Jay 37,336]

Ooops, when I said ending I was thinking of the end of the main story, Raiff's phone call to the mom and Gelula thinking on what he said and liking his instagram photos as a way to stay connected

 

I forgot about the jump forward in time for the final final ending, which I don't think the film needed.  But maybe I'd feel differently on second watch, I dunno

[Glóin the Dark 1,220]

On 12/02/2023 at 5:11 AM, Jay said:

...his phone call to the mom...

 

Yeah, that part was good - probably the most memorable aspect of the last act of the film.

[Jay 37,336]

Definitely!

 

My biggest takeaway after wanting to follow Raiff as a director, is Dylan Gelula as an actor.  I've now seen her in small roles in Horse Girl and Flower and the lead in First Girl I Loved, and she's really talented I think.  I hope she gets more prominent work!

[Glóin the Dark 1,220]

I don't think I realised when I saw Shithouse, but I'd seen her in small roles in three films - Support the Girls and Her Smell, as well as Horse Girl. A pretty good line-up...

[Jay 37,336]

Yea I got Support The Girls on my list. I think I talked about Horse Girl above. 

 

I first saw her on Kimmy Schmidt! 

[Jay 37,336]

 

The New Mutants

 

I remember being mildly curious about this when it was filming in 2017; By the time it finally came out in 2020 it was clear it wasn't going to be anything special, which probably explains why it took me another 3 years to bother to see it.  Perhaps because my expectations were so low, I didn't think this was completely terrible?

 

It's not great, and doesn't really leave much to be excited about in an alternate reality where Disney never bought Fox and they made a sequel or anything.  But what's kind of nice about it is that while the X-Men films got too big for their own good, this completely goes in the opposite direction and tells a much smaller story entirely in one location.  The location is a weird, mostly empty hospital (more like a mental institute or something) with only one person (Alice Braga) working there, and 5 kids with mutant powers (among them GOT's Maisie Williams, Stranger Things' Charlie Heaton, and Anya Taylor Joy) all forced to be there since the mysterious organization that Braga reports to considers them too dangerous to be free in the world, until they learn to get their powers under control.

 

There isn't much world building, and only some OK character development, and nothing special in the acting department, special effects, or creature design.  But the film finally gets fun for a bit in the action climax when Joy's character suddenly becomes a samurai warrior and they all team up to defeat a giant monster.  Luckily the whole thing is extremely short, less than 90 minutes before credits are rolling, so its not the worst thing you can do with your time, especially if you are curious to see how Fox's long X-Men series ended with a whimper.  At least the actors have mostly gone on to bigger and better things.

 

It's on DIsney+

[bollemanneke 3,342]

Tenet. 

Well, I finally watched it.

 

Do I feel it? Well, I feel something, but probably not enough, or not as much as I’d like to.

 

Do I understand it? That depends. I kept a close eye on the Wikipedia summary most of the time. I understand the basic plot all right. But I don’t understand a goddamn thing about… the rest? As in, why people had to be inverted at some point, who was and who wasn’t, why they needed to go back etc. I feel like it could all have been a great deal more enjoyable had it been less bloated and less action-packed. I feel as if half of the action scenes and their setups were there to be there. And I just switch off when action scenes are described to me for minutes on end, but maybe that’s just a me thing. I prefer a good story to fact after fact after fact. Maybe I’ll feel different after a second viewing. Don’t know if there ever will be one right now.

 

Did I like the score? The climactic piece, yes, and the reverse effects. Would I have preferred a Zimmer take? I can’t really say right now.

 

Does my brain need a break?  Definitely.

 

[Jay 37,336]

 

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

 

OMG!  I had avoided seeing this movie until now and it turns out it was for a great reason: This movie is terrible!  Truly one of the worst movies I've seen in a while.  I hated the tone, the characters (everyone's an asshole pretty much), the directing, the terrible use of music (constant, on-the-nose bad pop songs and annoying score), just about everything is bad.  Ewan McGregor is bad as the villain, the great Mary Elizabeth Winstead is barely in the film.  Rosie Perez is OK I guess.  Jurnee Smollett looks great and probably comes out the best here apart from Margot Robbie, who actually is completely fine and clearly having a fun time.  But she's not enough to save this awful film.

 

It's on Max and Hulu

[A24 4,331]

... Wrong thread (is it any wonder?)

 

 

[Richard Penna 3,679]

I finally watched Tenet as well, on the plane to the States. The plane setting had its advantage in that I had subtitles on so Nolan's mixing wasn't an issue. (I find a noisy plane causes dialogue/music/sfx imbalances so I just keep the volume down a bit and use subtitles to help)

 

Well, I liked it, and was following the story as much as I think any reasonably attentive person could be - completely 'got' the storyline with Branagh and all the reversal stuff. I lost it a little during the completely overlong operation at the end, although I knew what they were trying to do - just not quite where everyone was at any one point. Sort of switched off there really. Felt like Nolan was injecting complexities into the story just for the hell of it, but thankfully it wasn't at the expense of understanding the basic plot - I could easily have gotten to the last scene on the Yacht and been totally lost.

 

Bad news for the score - I never noticed it... not once. Completely disappeared into the background for me as 'noise'. I know it wasn't plane issues because I watched Get Smart before it and noticed Rabin's fun score all over the place.

[Jay 37,336]

 

The Babysitter: Killer Queen

 

The rare followup that is actually better than the original.  The surviving kid from the first movie is sort of reset to being an underdog again since nobody believes that a satanic cult tried to kill him two years ago.  It isn't long until he's at a beach party he was coaxed to go to by the love interest from the first movie, who reveals herself to be a new satanist who revives all the baddies from the first flick to chase and kill him again.  But this time along for the ride is a new love interest played by a pre-Wednesday Jenna Ortega, and they have way better chemistry than the first girl.  The strangest part is the ending where they turn the killer babysitter from the first movie into a hero for some reason, but the whole thing is so over the top and goofy it's all amusing, especially since the great Ken Marino is given A LOT more to do.  And Bella Thorne is in it more too!

I kinda hope they turn this into a trilogy.  It's on Netflix

[Faleel 5,345]

The Rhythm Section

 

 

Bad.

[Jay 37,336]

Right?  It was even worse than it should have been.

 

LOVE the return to your OG screen name btw

[Jay 37,336]

 

Like A Boss

 

Undercooked movie where Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne are childhood friends that own and run their own cosmetics store, whose friendship is tested when bigwig Salma Hayek wants to absorb their company into her cosmetics empire.  It follows all the cliches of a standard romcom, just with a friendship instead of a romance.  But its so short, the inevitable "break-up" is resolved like 5 minutes later and then the end credits are running maybe 10 minutes after that - no surprise with its scant 83 (!) minute runtime.  It's watchable because the leads all do a fine job (and Jennifer Collidge, Billy Porter, Karan Soni, Jessica St. Clair, Ari Garynor, Natasha Rothwell, Jimmy O Yang, and Ryan Hansen all have funny supporting roles), and because Salma Hayeks bonkers wig, make-up, and fake teeth need to be seen to be believed.   For extra fun, watch the trailer afterward to see entire scenes that got completely cut from the movie. 

 

It's on Amazon Prime.