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'A Photographic Memory' focuses on the elusive past

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

Rachel Seed never knew her mother. Sheila Turner Seed died at the age of 42 when Rachel was just 18 months old. There are a few photos of them together, but Rachel is too young to remember, as well as a photo of her toddler self at her mother’s graveside.
'Echo Valley' is a pale copy of better thrillers

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

Can a movie look too good? That thought came to me again and again while watching the Apple TV+ film “Echo Valley,” which director Michael Pearce and cinematographer Benjamin Cracun fill with beautifully composed shots, unexpected angles, and dreamlike imagery. All of it will look great on your OLED 4K. The only problem is that “Echo Valley” aspires to be a prestige crime thriller, full of desperate people doing desperate things.
'The Life of Chuck' isn't sorry for your loss

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

“The Life of Chuck” writer-director Mike Flanagan makes a small cameo in his movie as a mourner at a funeral. He quickly and uncomfortably mutters a platitude (“So sorry for your loss”) to the bereaved, in a hurry to get through an awkward social interaction. It’s a bit of an in-joke, because “Chuck” is such a powerful and direct film about life and death, looking unblinkingly but compassionately at the undeniable, inescapable truth that our time here is finite.
'Ballerina' can't hold a candle to 'John Wick'

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

When I saw “No Time To Die,” I said right away that the producers of the James Bond series should greenlight a spinoff movie or series that teamed up Ana de Armas and Lashana Lynch. If only they had listened to me, they might still have control of the franchise (and be a billion dollars poorer).
'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life' is lit

3 weeks 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.
Why a Broken Social Scene film took 20 years to make

4 weeks 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.
Cate Blanchett keeps the faith in 'The New Boy'

1 month 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.
'Final Reckoning' can't mask its franchise fatigue

1 month 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.
Why am I so obsessed with horror movie spoilers?

1 month 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.
'Black Bag' shows marriage is hard work for hot spies, too

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

Marriage is work, even if you’re glamorous spies who look like Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett. Maybe it’s even more work then. Not only do you have to deal with all the ups and downs of a regular marriage, but there are certain parts of your work life you have to wall off from your partner for security reasons.