#bill camp

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New poster for 'DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS'

In theaters February 23, 2024

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Any attraction to actor Bill Camp? I didn’t consider him much to look at at all when he was younger but he’s morphed into someone who’s a bit attractive to me. If you google his pics you’ll get some barefoot shots of him.

-I agree with you. Not much to look at when he was younger but he has gotten attractive the more he ages. But only with the beard for me.

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Drive-Away Dolls

directed by Ethan Coen, 2024

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SALEM'S LOT (2023) Gary Dauberman's movie may go to Max

Salem’s Lot is a 2023 American supernatural horror film about a writer who returns to his home town which has become infested by a vampire. This is the second feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 novel. Previously, it was adapted as a 1979 TV mini-series directed by Tobe Hooper, its sequel A Return to Salem’s Lot directed by Larry Cohen, and another TV mini-series in 2004. Written and…

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Drive-Away Dolls

Drive-Away Dolls    [trailer]

Jamie regrets her breakup with her girlfriend, while Marian needs to relax. In search of a fresh start, they embark on an unexpected road trip to Tallahassee.

Overall, it's funny. But I found many of the outrageous scenes for some reason not as funny as they should've been. Somehow the timing and the flow wasn't right.

I also found the accent of Margaret Qualley's Jamie too forced and distracting.

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254 - The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Some might call Yorgos Lanthimos' Oscar ascent an unlikely one, given the oddness at the core of his films. But with the Foreign Language Feature nomination for the explicit Dogtooth and the Original Screenplay for The Lobster, the Greek auteur cemented his status in the Oscar club. A victory lap of sorts came with The Killing of a Sacred Deer in 2017, returning Lanthimos to Cannes competition with the pedigree of Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman. But any expectation that the film might be another Academy affirmed oddity all but evaporated when Cannes audiences discovered a bloody and deeply strange (even for Lanthimos) modern fable about a father given an otherworldly, violent demand from a deceased patient's son.

This episode, we talk about our anticipation for Lanthimos' Poor Things this season and the elements that make this film so divisive. We also talk about Barry Keoghan's brilliant breakthrough performance, Alicia Silverstone's caramel tart, and the film career of character actor Bill Camp (new bet alert!).

Topics also include the now-defunct Executive Committee, Kidman smoking while gardening, and 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

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The Outsider (2020) tv series

-(finished) watchin' Season 1- 3/19/2024- 2 [3/4] stars- on Max

The book was much better in my opinion.

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Drive-Away Dolls (2024) review

Do not see this movie with your mum. I repeat, do not not see this movie with your mum!!

Plot: Jamie regrets her breakup with her girlfriend, while Marian needs to relax. In search of a fresh start, they embark on an unexpected road trip to Tallahassee. Things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of inept criminals.

The Coen Brothers are behind some of the most thrilling crime capers in cinema history, and are known for their flashy neo-noir style and highly convoluted plots featuring eccentric characters. However recently the brothers decided to temporarily part ways and focus on their own separate projects, with Joel adapting the famous Shakespeare play Macbeth, which by the way was a superb piece of post-modern black-and-white cinema, and gave Roman Polanski a run for his money. Honestly, Tragedy of Macbeth was visually striking, as it stripped down the classic Bard play to its narrative and perceptible essentials, and also the cast was terrific! Then again, you can never go wrong with Denzel Washington. I honestly don’t know a single person who doesn’t love Denzel!

Anyway, whilst Joel was up to his master-class ways, what has the other Coen bro been up to? We would have found out last year if it weren’t for the strikes, but now we finally have an answer - Ethan has decided to go back to his roots and make a road trip movie that is infused with the 80s/90s goofy feel to it, and he even brings back the briefcase from Fargo! Or from No Country for Old Men. Or The Big Lebowski. Or Hail Caesar!. Pretty sure Brad Pitt also seeks a briefcase full of cash in Burn After Reading…. Honestly what is it with the Coens and their briefcases!? Not only that, I swear most of the time it’s the same model briefcase that’s used! So anyway, Ethan Coen is evidently driving down memory lane here, but is it a drive across the greatest hits, or a drive-away to disappointment?

It’s the latter unfortunately. Now we have seen the true colours and know which of the Coen bros is the talented one and which is riding on their sibling’s success! I’m kidding, everyone has a bad day at the office, but Ethan Coen has really made a stinker with Drive-Away Dolls. Playing out in less than an hour and a half, this is a very short film, so on a plus size is does whiz past you. However the storyline is so thin and disengaging, and the jokes are also really unfunny. The Coen Brothers are known for their signature wit and hilarious dialogue, however none of that is present here. Additionally, similar to how I found Poor Things to feature one too many sex scenes for my liking, Drive-Away Dolls features a lot of lesbian friction throughout, to unnecessary amounts. I thought it was bit too much, and too icky for my tastes.

The cast features a lot of talented people, all of whom I’ve seen give great performances in other projects, however here they were either miscast or simply wasted with their minimal inconsequential screen time. Margaret Qualley is way too over-the-top and silly as the fast talking Jamie with a cringe-inducing accent twang, and she got really overbearing by the end of the movie. Geraldine Viswanathan as Marian plays the straight faced counterpart to Qualley’s annoying energy ball. Again, it’s not the first time we’ve seen such a dynamic in films, yet Viswanathan can’t seem to find any interesting layers within her one-dimensional character and as such came off really boring. The rest of the cast comes and goes, some for sheer forced comedy and others to at least make some attempt to have a cohesive plot, but even then are taken out of the equation quickly and pointlessly. Pedro Pascal, Colman Domingo, Beanie Feldstein, Matt Damon, Bill Camp, Miley Cyrus….all wasted.

The movie also features very sloppy editing, and also the transitions! We have to speak about the transitions! What the hell was going on there? So from scene to scene we’d get these weird wacky psychedelic kaleidoscopic inserts, and I mean in a stoner film this would probably serve more purpose, but in a movie like this it felt totally random. To be fair at the end a character does mention about something that happened years ago that somewhat mildly justifies these inserts, but even then having so much of them throughout the film felt like a useless gimmick. I’m all for filmmakers trying something different and unique visually, but as long as it serves a purpose to the overall narrative, which in this case it did not.

It’s really disappointing as I’m a major fan of the Coen Brothers works, however this was such a messy misfire, I’m honestly shocked it made it through to actual release. It’s silly but not in a fun way, featuring wasted talent and bland gags, and one should simply drive away from this as far as possible.

Overall score: 2/10

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New Drive-Away Dolls poster

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Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Drive-Away Dolls has one scene with three intense strobes of lightning. This begins with a long shot looking directly downward at the roof of a car, and is over within about a minute. There are four sequences of psychedelic imagery, the third of which uses some strobe effects.

Several scenes of this film take place in moving vehicles, but all of the camera work in this film is either stationary or very smooth.

Flashing Lights: 6/10. Motion Sickness: 1/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: A decapitated human head is shown in a few scenes.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review of Drive-away Dolls

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The high stakes biopic ‘Molly’s Game’ hustled moviegoers this week 5 years ago. 🃏💸🚨

“𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚘𝚔𝚊𝚢 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐? 𝚆𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐.”

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Boston Strangler

directed by Matt Ruskin, 2023

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