Rambling Film

Official synopsis: After a therapist's (Renate Reinsve) patient (Chiwetel Ejiofor) disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him. I was not familiar with director Kane Parsons' long going Backroom series on the web. And I made the decision not to research it at all before going into this. I really wanted to see if this film worked without knowledge of the existing lore.  The thing is, I was really with Backrooms for the first 2/3 of the film. The production design is outstanding. The 90's setting worked very well and you wouldn't really think of bright yellow office spaces as being unsettling, but it is. It teases you properly with what the reveal could be, but when it comes time to end the thing, it seems Parsons and crew either didn't have those answers, or they cared more about baiting a sequel because this has easily one of the most unsatisfying endings I've seen in a long time. And the more I sit with it, the mor...

  What I knew going in: That famous quote It occurred to me recently that there's a handful of Julia Robert's 90's films that I haven't actually seen, but I feel like I have based on how popular they are in the pop culture zeitgeist. Notting Hill is one of those. Aside from the famous "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her" quote, what do I actually know about this movie? Not much. Not even the year it was made, because if you had asked me, I would've guessed somewhere between 1990-1994, and not 1999 when this actually came out. I'm not sure how I missed this. I really did just watch Step Mom on repeat I guess. This was cute. Juila Roberts and Hugh Grant are charming. Sure, this film left me with plenty of questions, like how does William survive on a Travel Book Store, what exactly DOES Anna see in him, and how has Spike managed to stay alive all this time? But it doesn't need to be serious enough to answer thos...

Basically all of the shows I've been watching ended over the past couple of weeks, I have plenty of finales to talk about. Diet spoilers ahead. I'm trying to keep them as light as possible.  Daredevil: Born Again - Whether it's on Netflix or Disney Plus, one thing Daredevil has never been able to escape is being dragged into some melodrama. I'm not going to say the entire season was a disaster, because there are absolutely things that worked, and it's not the show's fault that Andor tackled similar subject matter so much better last year. I'm left with the following questions. 1. Why are we still focusing on Heather? It makes sense she's traumatized after nearly dying last season, but now she's Matt's enemy. Do we really need to focus another one of King Pin's underlings? Her choking scene with Buck was very cringy. 2. Where is Frank Castle? I normally try not to ask myself "where is X character" in a super hero universe because w...