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'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life' is lit

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

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

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

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.
Why am I so obsessed with horror movie spoilers?

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

3 weeks 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.
'Sew Torn' unspools a delicious thriller plot

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

If the Coen Brothers had spent a summer working behind the counter at Joann Fabrics when they were teenagers, the result might be “Sew Torn.”In writer-director Freddy MacDonald’s stylish and witty debut, a resourceful seamstress finds that her sewing box may be her superpower in outwitting gangsters and attempting to steal a suitcase full of cash. With its unconventional narrative structure, clever action staging and black humor, “Sew Torn” threads the needle between thriller and comedy.
‘Fight or Flight' proves the Hartnett-assiance is real

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

I’m old enough to remember when Josh Hartnett was the handsome young dude of the early ‘00s, an actor that Hollywood was trying to foist upon us in movies like “Pearl Harbor” and “30 Days and 30 Nights” despite being bland as dishwater. But a couple of decades and a little seasoning have made Hartnett no less handsome, but a good deal more interesting.
Blu-ray review: Taking a deep dive with 'Last Breath'

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

If it feels like I just wrote about “Last Breath,” I did. The movie whooshed through theaters at the end of February, was on VOD a few weeks later, and started streaming this week on Peacock as well as being available to buy on DVD/Blu-ray. Whoosh!Now that it’s widely available to watch at home, I do hope people catch up with it. It’s a sturdy, old-fashioned based-on-a-true-story adventure that prizes authenticity over dazzle, with strong performances and a tight 93-minute running time.
A24 released a movie for kids, and it’s wild

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

One of the great things about being a kid in the 1980s is that you never knew when an ostensibly family-friendly movie was going to scar you for life. Filmmakers of that era, perhaps still carrying the wounds from the ending of “Old Yeller,” often didn’t feel the need to sugarcoat or soften the emotional highs and lows of their family-friendly movies. As a result, just say the name “Artax” to a Gen-Xer and watch the tears well up in their eyes.