Best first name ever?

Hint: Brooks and Dunn may have written a song in honor of.

THE QUOTE 🎬 💬

“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”

hint: the actor who said these lines changed the monologue the day of the shoot

THINK THOUGHTS 💭

”Think Thoughts” is turning into “No Thoughts” pretty darn quickly here.

But I do want to send a little note out to a friend — “Screw two, you can still have all the fun with just one.”

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NEWSY BITS 👾

Ari Emanuel Predicts Media Consolidation Will Leave Just ‘5 or 6’ Major Content Providers – a ‘Healthy Ecosystem’ - I mean, how many do we have now? Let’s count: Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, Amazon, Netflix, Lionsgate, Sony, Universal. I’m at 8 (7.5 depending on where you stand with Lionsgate). Soooo, who gun’ die? Context: Emanuel is the head of Endeavor, a talent agency that dabbles in and the basis for Ari Gold on Entourage. - Variety

For Wendell Pierce and Courtney B. Vance, James Earl Jones Loomed Large - nice little tribute (one of many going around) for the man that was definitely more than just a voice. - NY Times

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EXTRA CREDIT MOVIE(S) 📝

The Killer’s Game - kinda harsh, but looks like Dave Bautista’s schlocky John Wick knock-off. No reviews, but if you want to see people getting shot, a lot of them, while (cliched) quips are tossed aplenty. Here you gooooo. Playing in Theaters Friday

The 4:30 Movie - Kevin Smith doing a sort of coming of age / Dazed and Confused thing where a dude’s just trying to go see a movie with a girl (and maybe his friends too). The reviews say it’s one of Smith’s better movies in a while, in large part because he lets his (fun to watch) characters just be. Playing in Limited Theaters Friday

Good Girl Jane - a director’s cinematic version of her life as a teenager getting caught up with a group of “punks and drug dealers.” The reviews say it’s a performance heavy look at the time many of us are searching for identity and connection. Playing in Limited Theaters Friday

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NOTABLE NEW RELEASE(S) 🎟 & 📺

Speak No Evil

totally normal “friend” behavior

When you hit certain ages, there are phrases that seem to appear out of nowhere. Like when you’re 9 and your parents start repeatedly telling you “It’s absolutely ridiculous, take off that god damn diaper already.” ……??!!

Just me?

Ok, something more universal then - how about when you’re somewhere in your late 20’s / early 30’s and you start to hear people lament that “It’s just so hard to make friends as an adult.” !!!!!!!!

Phew, seems that’s actually a thing.

Its easy to understand why - we get stuck in routines, have fewer new experiences, there’s four hours of shows on streamers to watch every night... You get it. I get it. WE, get it.

So you can then also appreciate why a properly nice couple (Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy) might take another seemingly pleasant pair (James McAvoy and Aisling Franciosi) up on their offer to come stay with them in the English countryside - even if they’d only just met on holiday.

In most scenarios you’d think to yourself, ok fine, maaaaybe they voted for candidate X who sux, or there’s a chance they’re fully on board with the Creed resurgence. Even in the absolute worst case, they put toilet paper rolls on the wrong way, but you know you can bail as needed.

But since this is movieland, instead you end up with James McAvoy charming you into his home and then promptly trying to stuff you like a turkey with turkey, even though you’re vegetarian. And the most egregious part, you’re husband is just standing there watching it all happen. Oh and yes, you’re married, but you cheated on him, because “relationships.”

So to be clear, things can get worse than spinning a tp roll for five minutes searching for the end or Scott Stapp tossing his arms *ahem* wide open and asking you to “bring it in here.”

But it’s not all bad! Your awkward trauma trip will at least be recorded so everyone else can see, including the harshest critics who think it may not be as good as the more nuanced Danish original, but at least it does a pretty good job at showing how “being polite” can turn dangerous, real fast.

But that doesn’t sound great, so you say to yourself, why am I in movieland, I’m just a reader of some silly newsletter, this shit is crazy. So you extract yourself from danger and instead step back to the side where you watch the wild stuff go down. And vow to never trust anyone again, because you never know¹.

Out: Friday

Where: Theaters

Details: 1 hr 50 mins | R | 🍅: 89%

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THE WEEKLY TRAILER PLAYLIST ⏯

Wolfman - someone’s been watching the original Alien trailer…

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The Wild Robot - mainly sharing this to see this movie is getting kind of insane (ly good) reviews. Currently sitting at 100% with some very enthusiastic critics.

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Will & Harper - as in Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, who met on SNL (Steele was a writer) take a road trip together shortly after learning Harper was transgender.

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Saturday Night - only fitting we drop the second trailer for this dramatization of SNL’s opening show next.

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Megalopolis - whelp, they came back with a new trailer (after the last one featured made up quotes) and… yeah, it looks quite silly. But hey, who knows!

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