Rob Thomas

5 days ago | notthatrobthomas.substack.com | Rob Thomas

It’s not a typical romantic fantasy to imagine yourself slow-dancing with a naked man in a Chinese restaurant. But then, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is not a typical romantic comedy. Writer-director Laura Piani’s debut is more of a winning, minor-key film in which (as the title suggests) the love of literature is at least on the same footing as romantic love.

1 week ago | notthatrobthomas.substack.com | Rob Thomas

Stephen Chung’s documentary about the Canadian indie rock collective Broken Social Scene, “It’s All Gonna Break,” is being released nearly two decades after he completed his first cut. In other words, at exactly the right time. Chung, a Toronto filmmaker, was friends with members of the band, and shot literally hundreds of hours of footage of the band in the early to mid 2000s.

2 weeks ago | notthatrobthomas.substack.com | Rob Thomas

It’s sometime in the 1940s, and the boy looks like he doesn’t just live in the Australian outback, but as if he has grown out of the parched soil there. An unnamed Aboriginal child of about eight or nine (played magnetically by Aswan Reid), the boy has a shock of blonde hair that almost exactly matches the gently waving auburn grasses around him. When a pair of British soldiers ruthlessly capture him (using a boomerang), it’s as if they’re trying to tame the land itself.

2 weeks ago | notthatrobthomas.substack.com | Rob Thomas

The climax of “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” features Ethan Hunt in a life-or-death duel in the skies with the bad guy, hanging on for dear life as the rest of his Impossible Mission Force team waits on the ground, the clock ticking, for the signal that he’s accomplished his mission.

2 weeks ago | notthatrobthomas.substack.com | Rob Thomas

I didn’t go see “Final Destination Bloodlines” last weekend. I doubt I will ever go see “Final Destination Bloodlines.” In fact, I’ve never seen any of the “Final Destination” movies. Bloody slasher movies where the characters die one by one in spectacular fashion? Not really my thing. And yet I know how every single character in “Final Destination Bloodlines” dies. Thanks for reading Not that Rob Thomas! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.