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#Noelle

Released November 12, 2019

Directed by #MarcLawrence

Starring. #AnnaKendrick #BillHader #KingsleyBen-Adir #Billy Eichner #JulieHagerty #ShirleyMacLaine

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Noelle (2019)

Thanks to the ever-charming Anna Kendrick and some neat gags, Noelle is a pleasant watch. Will anyone remember it down the line? Even if Hollywood didn’t crank out innumerable Christmas specials every year, I don't think so. Still, you could do far worse.

Five months after their father has passed away, Noelle (Anna Kendrick) and Nick Kringle (Bill Hader) are having difficulty getting ready for Christmas. While detecting whether children are naughty or nice, flying the sleigh, and sliding down the chimney comes easily to Noelle, it’s Nick’s job to be the next Santa. When he elopes to Phoenix, Arizona and everyone at the North Pole blames her, Noelle and her childhood nanny Polly (Shirley MacLaine) go track him down. Meanwhile, Nick’s absence has forced the council of elf elders to appoint his cousin, tech-geek Gabriel (Billy Eichner), as the new-new replacement Santa.

You can foresee exactly where this story is going. It’s pretty obvious but that’s fine. Most Christmas-themed movies choreograph their final destination early on. In fact, seeing Kendrick as the new mascot of December 25th would be kind of nice. Who says Santa has to be a man? You might say history - since Saint Nicholas is based on a real person - but not in this movie! Not only is there no talk of Jesus' birthday or any of that, but this movie takes it a step further by claiming the Clauses have been flying around the world and handing out gifts to good children for over 2,000 years. I guess B.C. must stand for “Before Claus��� in this universe. Not that I’m suggesting there’s any kind of agenda at hand; this movie's only objective is to be the new hotness to be watched during the 2019 holiday season and then get replaced by something else in 12 months.

But let’s not linger on the negatives. Overall, it’s a cheery (though not a musical, disappointingly) film. The film’s main conflict concerns Noelle and a private detective named Jake Hapman (Kingsley Ben-Adir), as they search for her brother. He doesn’t believe Nick’s the real Santa (in any movie no adults ever do; it’s an unofficial rule) but she’s so ignorant of the way the world works he begins suspecting her stories may be true. A little magic would certainly help him give his son, Alex (Maceo Smedley), get the holiday he desires. The scenes in which Noelle reaches out to ordinary people and does her best to fulfill their wishes are the film’s best. They’re sweet and combined with the actress's natural charisma, it’s hard not to crack a smile.

Noelle makes good use of its stars’ talent, has a fair number of laughs, and brings something sorta new to the equation by putting a lady in Santa's boots. It’s fine for little kids but the older you get, the more you’ll find yourself comparing it to truly well-thought-out, creative holiday endeavors. I guess it’s ok if you’re just looking for something to pass the time during the festive season. (December 13, 2020)

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Dream No Evil (1970)

Digging into my big box of random VHS tapes is a game of Russian Roulette. You either get a cursed tape that will kill you in 7 days or a great film no one’s ever heard of. Too bad tonight's feature was Dream No Evil, a film whose only redeeming quality is that it’s so ineptly made it’s kind of fascinating.

Orphaned Grace (Brooke Mills) is obsessed with finding her father Timothy (Edmond O’Brien), claiming with fervor that he’s still alive and waiting for him. Even after being adopted, finding work as an assistant to a traveling circus/church, and becoming engaged to Patrick (Paul Prokop), finding him is all she talks about. When her delusions become so severe she imagines finding his corpse and bringing it back to life, she begins murdering people.

“Woah there! SPOILER ALERT! I know this film probably sucks, but did you have to give away the big twist that Grace’s father is not the one killing people, that she was the killer all along?” To that, I say yes and no. First of all, it’s important to tell you what this film is about so you can understand how truly awful and boring it is. Secondly, I didn’t give anything away. This movie spoils itself!

It's like several reels were missing when the footage of “Dream No Evil” was sent to the editor. To compensate, narration was added to explain what's happening and to fill in the gaps of the missing scenes. But then the missing footage turned up and it was inserted it where it belonged and director John Hayes decided to keep the narration. We must suffer through people reiterating the same information over and over as Grace tells people her father is alive and well, but a shot shows us that he’s not alive at all, and then the narration reminds that indeed, this is all in Grace's head.

This film could have been bad, but somewhat inventive if it had put the least bit of effort into making a story worth seeing. We’re immediately told that Grace is hallucinating everything, which makes this ordeal as dull as watching someone take a nap. You’re just waiting for her to go full-on psycho and start butchering people under the guise of her dead father. That’s all you have to look forward to because there’s no twist, no revelation coming at the end of the film. There’s not even sleazy nudity or gratuitous gore to jog you awake. It's just the meandering plot and the characters trying to catch up to what the audience knows and would have figured out even if the completely superfluous narration hadn’t revealed it right away.

Dream No Evil feels as though it were created by someone who only had a vague idea of how to tell a story. Many scenes didn’t need to be included and other crucial developments that would've been excited are mentioned in passing but never shown. Don’t get suckered in by the big VHS box with the bloody ax embedded into bloody bedsheets. This film is about as likely to give you nightmares as a 10% raise in your salary. Dream No Evil doesn’t even have anything to do with dreams. The only enjoyment I got out of it was picking it apart and even then, I’ll have completely forgotten this picture in a week or so. (On VHS, May 6, 2016)

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