Movies

Danny Boyle has grown increasingly gentle. The man who began his feature-film career with the pitch-dark comedy, Shallow Grave and achieved widespread fame for Trainspotting moved onto such films as the uplifting Slumdog Millionaire and the biopic Steve Jobs.

In 2019, he made an SF Rom-Com that also serves as a love letter to the Beatles and so, today, we’re going to review Yesterday.

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What could be more appropriate now than a horror movie about two guys in isolation who drive each other crazy?

We haven’t had a Weekend Review for awhile, so I’m going to take this opportunity to annoy some of the Bureau and delight others by giving another generally positive review to an A24 production, last autumn’s The Lighthouse. After The Witch‘s success with many critics and niche audiences, Robert Eggers co-wrote and directed this strange little film, in which Williem Defoe and Robert Pattinson get stuck together on an isolated island and lose their minds.

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We can post a discussion for Sonic the Hedgehog, if anyone asks, and we’ll have a review soon of The Invisible Man, see? But for now, we’re reviewing a Disney family movie that opened to… a disappointing box office. The Call of the Wild isn’t exactly our usual genre, but this adaptation does feature Harrison Ford and a LOT of CGI.

And I’m willing to bet quite a few people who check in on this site have read Jack London’s most famous work. If you haven’t, you probably should.

But should you see this most recent film adaptation?

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The latest DC super-movie opened, a sequel to Suicide Squad that also functions as an origin for Birds of Prey. It under-performed at the box office on its first weekend and played to mixed reviews.

This review may be more mixed than many.

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We haven’t done a Weekend Review of an older film for some time, so here’s one for 2020, a film that, after numerous delays, finally saw release last summer, but found its biggest audience on AmazonPrime. David Robert Mitchell got notice for his first feature, The Myth of the American Sleepover, and then he wrote and directed a brilliant and very successful horror film called It Follows. He was apparently given a free reign and significant budget for this project, which blends indie comedy, neo-Noir, conspiracy theory, and urban fantasy, with interesting, but decidedly mixed, results.¹

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