James Mangold has a firm handle on music biopics, as detailed in Walk the Line, and we even have a little Johnny Cash crossover here. Tim Chalamet does a fine job of embodying Dylan, a contrarian hipster type who never wanted to be famous. Dylan just wanted to play music. He's still touring today (in 2025). I saw him last year. He's lost none of his ion for music.
A Complete Unknown details Dylan's rise from a nobody, who arrived…
Kinda fun but really stupid and badly acted film. Stath goes after a gang who traffic young women into sexual slavery. There's lots of shooting and explosions. The film is two hours long, which is frankly unacceptable given how dumb it is. It feels like it was written by Sylvester Stallone. That's not a compliment.
I saw this because I'm watching every Walken film.
A few years ago I was diagnosed with a skin problem that was later confirmed, via tests, to be MRSA. In order to stop it from spreading the doctor cut my leg open with a scalpel on local anesthetic. He removed a chunk of flesh and then dug out the area underneath, which didn't feel numb from my perspective. Then they packed the wound with cotton wool to make sure it…
I when a Tim Burton film was something kooky that the whole world would fall in love with. Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, even his Batman (although I wasn't keen on it). But increasingly Burton's films have lost their way. Dark Shadows is a mess. Disted, rarely keeping any character continuity from one scene to the next. Its only saving grace is Johnny Depp's rather familiar central character. As per usual he throws enough heart into the performance that it stands…
