Pandemics always result in zombies. Outbreak reminds me of being a kid.
Stephen King’s “The Stand” is a good pandemic story that didn’t have zombies (neither screen adaptation is very good, though).
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They have. Films are suffering under the tyranny of mediocrity served up by Marvel and Disney. Which they can happily do as the public eats it up. The sad consequence is the disappearance of interesting mid-budget fare that used to be a staple.
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Get Duked is a cracking comedy. Four young lads out on the Scottish Highlands trying to get their Duke of Edinburgh award whilst being shot at by Eddie Izzard.
Highly recommended.
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Nightmare Alley was really good. I would say a must watch for this year.
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Red Rocket - About a former pornstar ruining everything he touches in a dead Texan town. Sean Baker just isn’t my cup of tea but this is a lot better than The Florida Project, which I really disliked.
After Love - A small British production about an English woman finding out about her late husband’s secret family. Intimate and devastating.
House of Gucci - From the atoricous accents, laughable miscast, to the sluggish, overlong script, almost everything was terrible.
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Red Rocket, I liked from film art perspective.
House of Gucci, accents in previews sound terrible.
‘The Tinder Swindler’ is a fun documentary on Netflix. I mean, not so much fun for the victims… but engaging and interesting. Cannot turn away.
They really are. Lady Gaga did the best she could with what she was given but I thought Adam Driver was awful and looked downright ugly in the movie. They also made some laughably bad casting decisions with regard to Tom Ford and Anna Wintour.
Adam Driver is an actor I feel very lukewarm about. Like I don’t hate him or think he’s terrible or anything, but I don’t get why critics rave about him either.
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Has he looked handsome in anything? Anyone who played Kylo Ren had to be ugly.
Dunno about handsome, but Paterson was a great film.
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I don’t think he had to be handsome or anything, but the makeup and styling just made he look really terrible in Gucci.
Who cares about whether he is handsome? Driver Iis probably THE actor of his generation and his screen presence has improved every project I have seen him in. Yes, even the three Star Wars turds.
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I feel like he plays the same character in all his movies, though I have not seen Paterson which is said to be his best work.
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Have you seen The man who killed Don Quixote?
He’s certainly no Kylo Ren in that. He also does a great spoof of himself in an Undercover Boss skit and took part in a self deprecating John Oliver (Hello Andy, Hello Buglers) gag which ran for a while on The Tonight Show.
Nope. I’ve seen Blackkklansman, Marriage Story, and House of Gucci (and maybe some others I’m forgetting). Three vastly different roles and he was the same in all three.
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I haven’t seen any of those so we have no common ground. 
There is no map, the territory is Adam Driver.
The Don Quixote film is really good. I love the whole narrative of Cervantes’ Ingenious Gentleman from La Mancha so I’m biased, but it’s worth a few hours of your life even if you aren’t captivated by monks having mental breakdowns in windmills.
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Also, smaller roles, but in Lincoln (soldier), When We Were Young (delightfully insufferable hipster) and in the excellent Inside Llewyn Davis (singer) he is very much different.
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