1. Send Help
I'm always down for some Rachel McAdams, and I still regard director Sam Raimi's output with guarded optimism. Send Help is... good, but of course not Spider Man 2 good or, going still further back, Evil Dead 2 good. It reminded me of many other movies, mostly Triangle of Sadness, but also Cast Away and Misery. Even so it's its own entity, and entertainingly gross to boot.
Every ticket purchased for this film puts Melania further in the hole, and I'd recommend it for that reason alone.
2. Goat
A goat dreams of playing professional "roarball" despite his diminutive size. I went into this one with zero expectations and walked out pleasantly surprised. It's predictable but it's also eccentric enough to be interesting.
3. Rental Family
This one had a 2025 release date in the States, but in Taiwan it arrived this month.
Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser stars as an actor living in Japan who finds work impersonating other people's friends and relatives. The last of Fraser's movies I saw was the decidedly depressing The Whale, and I was happy to see him in something a lot more lighthearted. Rental Family is a very solid movie, and although it wasn't a big hit at the box office (on either side of the Pacific) I could see it becoming a cult classic in the future.
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4. Crime 101
Bruce Banner attempts to catch Thor before he steals a bunch of diamonds and/or cash with Storm's help. Oh, and The Riddler's in their somewhere.
Sorry, wrong cinematic universe.
I think that Chris Hemsworth has, by this point at least, proved that he's more than Thor several times over, and the rest of the cast were well established in Hollywood long before we fretted over the next Avengers or whatever Sony might or might not be doing with the Spider-Man films.
Crime 101 isn't bad. I think it could have been edited down to a leaner two hours, but it's not bad. In terms of recent movies I've seen recently Rental Family is way better, but as crime thrillers go Crime 101 is a tightly constructed tale of thieves, cops and rich guys with too much money on their hands. It's not Heat or anything, but Barry Keoghan goes a long way toward elevating whatever movie he deigns to appear in.
Woah: Nick Nolte is now 85 years old.
Yet Another Comic Book Connection: Pedro Pascal was originally slated to star opposite Hemsworth, but dropped out to star in Fantastic Four: First Steps instead.
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