What movie did you watch today?

[Y@k Bollocks]

Really dope.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

What does Spartan think of Unfriended?

[Spartan]

Drowning in unwatched movies over here and top priority is the new Mad Max.

I only got through that other 'net themed horror movie The Den (last page), which turned out to be pretty decent, despite lacking any real chills. Even that Arena of the Unwell blog wrote a positive review about it.

Have you watched either The Duke of Burgundy or A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night yet? They're up there with It Follows as fave films seen this year.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

Really wanna see the former, not heard of the latter.

Caught the Spooks movie the other night. Harry Pearce >>>> Jack Bauer.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Alleluia (2014) - Fabrice du Welz delivers a hard-hitting take on the Honeymoon Killers-story. When I saw a sleazy guy praying to pagan Gods for his date to be charmed by him I knew I would like the film but the intensity kind of drops halfway through. This is better than his recent Colt 45 and on the same level as Calvaire and Vinyan.

The World of Kanako (2014) - Confessions was a lovely film about nasty kids from a Japanese highschool. This new film from the same director is in the style of Paul Schrader's Hardcore but much less restrained and full of fun visual gimmicks. There hasn't been a lot of serious-minded Japanese exploitation in the last few years, other than films from Sion Sono. So this is very welcome in spite of not being on that level.

Marshlands (2014) - The Spanish anwser to True Detective is a great thriller about post-Franco Spanish villages and much more. I thought this film had a lot of depth for a genrepiece and the photography is first class.

[Y@k Bollocks]

A lot less weird than I thought to be honest. Worth a watch but, I dunno... I was hoping for the insights to be more twisted.



High entertaining. Extremely odd film but really nicely realised.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Shrew's Nest (2014) - Claustrophobic Spanish thriller with a mad ending. It made me think of Sleep Tight - and not just because the creepy landlord is also in this movie as this is another apartment-themed scare.

The Duke of Burgundy (2014) - This year @ Cannes the critics are creaming themselves over another Hey everyone, I'm a lesbian!-film but this isn't that. It's something much better and more complex about control and submission in our relationships, or at least that's what I took from it.

[ChaMerZ]

collateral. tom cruise playing an assassin and jamie foxx a taxi driver. always meant to watch it but was only able to do so this weekend. great, GREAT movie.

[Y@k Bollocks]

Shrew's Nest (2014) - Claustrophobic Spanish thriller with a mad ending. It made me think of Sleep Tight - and not just because the creepy landlord is also in this movie as this is another apartment-themed scare.

Like the sound of this. Will check it out.


Liked this a lot. A little slow but super engrossing.



Entertaining enough I suppose, but was an extremely silly film which surprised me given all the award nominations.
That pantomime 'evil sniper guy' - wtf?

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

collateral. tom cruise playing an assassin and jamie foxx a taxi driver. always meant to watch it but was only able to do so this weekend. great, GREAT movie.

Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris and Roger Ebert are all dead but tha gawd Chamerz is out chea keepin movie criticism alive

[Y@k Bollocks]

Really liked this. About a family ski trip and gender roles in a marriage. A weird watch and one that'll make you think "Shit... I wonder if I'm a complete pussy?".

[LilLeftBrain]

^dug it a bunch
may was like, watched a bunch of trivial shit early in the month

[Spartan]

May was a slow month:

[ChaMerZ]

collateral. tom cruise playing an assassin and jamie foxx a taxi driver. always meant to watch it but was only able to do so this weekend. great, GREAT movie.

Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris and Roger Ebert are all dead but tha gawd Chamerz is out chea keepin movie criticism alive

i really don't get what's with you and my input in this thread.

a thread like this doesn't invite in depth 'criticism'. i save things like that for my blog. but to keep you happy:

Positives
* Tom Cruise played a believable assassin
* The use of levity to spice up the movie's admittedly dour premise
* Jada Pinkett Smith

Negatives
* Too much suspension of disbelief required to sustain interest in the story (it really would have made sense for Tom Cruise to off Jamie Foxx at the outset)
* ... again Tom Cruise could have easily offed Jada Pinket Smith but he didn't for some reason. Just way too many instances where the 'assassin' was acting out of character (i.e. him buying Jamie Foxx's mom flowers ... wtf?)

[ChaMerZ]

May was a slow month:

What's this you are using to keep track of what you are watching? Is it Netflix? I have to jump on that asap, since now I have time to catch up on my shows.

[drizzle]

LA Takedown - In of itself, it's a very choppy and lowbudget tv movie. Bafflingly so actually, this shit feels like some straight to VHS b-grade thriller but at this point Mann was already a well established and experienced producer and director. Maybe the version I watched was edited badly by the network or something, idk... there's rookie level problems like sledgehammer cuts and gaping continuity holes all over this thing.

BUT, as sloppy and cheap as the thing is itself, it's a fascinating supplement to Heat. Watching it is a master class on how much Heat and pretty much any genre movie hinges on the specifics of execution. Both LA Takedown and Heat have nearly identical plots, even some nearly identical scenes, but without Deniro and Pacino and the neon and the sound design and meticulous pacing and the budget to put it all together right... you don't really have shit.

That direct quoting/repetition of elements is also an interesting commentary on Mann's career as a director. You look at this and how he reused elements of Miami Vice from the show to the remake and how he generally recycles certain things from one project to the next and you realize how much of his work is in trying to perfect some idea he once had way back when.

[drizzle]

Mr. Arkadin - Haven't seen this since CC dropped that ridiculous box set in 06, which naturally I copped bc I was young and dumb and had mad disposable income. Rewatched it and now i'm kinda glad I own it. I'm not sure what the movie's public standing is, it never got the kind of critical re-appraisal that turned rarities into classics overnight in the 00s, but it's a fantastic piece of purely-Wells madness. It's like a puddle of the baroque sleaze that Wells oozed out of his pores like Razor Ramone oozed machismo, refracted through one of the fun-house mirrors from the end of Lady From Shanghai. The rogues gallery of characters is similar to the Third Man but they're all warped and distorted and more cartoonish. The extent to which the movie shits on its principals and all hopes for romance or sentimentality or redemption is nearly absurd. Even the ending sequence, which verges on near slapstick as it plays out, turns out to be a gigantic kick in the balls. I'm kinda wondering if the movie is maybe paradoxically meant as both self-parody and self-congratulation, with Wells poking fun at himself as a director and actor while simultaneously reveling in his own excess without a trace of irony.

[Spartan]

What's this you are using to keep track of what you are watching? Is it Netflix? I have to jump on that asap, since now I have time to catch up on my shows.

http://letterboxd.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Y@k Bollocks]

Shit. I should have started a Diary on Letterboxd but I can't be arsed to go back and remember when I watched what.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Backcountry (2014) - This film is based on a true story where a Canadian couple was attacked by a blackbear. The film has a bit too much couple's therapy and a bit more bear would have been nice but this is still a solid survival film with some nice nature and strong tension.

[ChaMerZ]

What's this you are using to keep track of what you are watching? Is it Netflix? I have to jump on that asap, since now I have time to catch up on my shows.

http://letterboxd.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

this is really great, thank you my G.

[Tommy Bunz]

Everyone should join Letterboxd. I love it.

Drizzle I'm kinda bummed you didn't like LA Takedown. It's several notches below Heat in every way possible, but overall I was impressed at how well it hits pretty much all the same beats.
You're comment about Mann's career is pretty interesting though, there's definitely something in there.

I also bought that Arkadin criterion set years ago but never watched the damn thing. I'm never sure which cut i'm supposed to watch

[Tommy Bunz]

Had another bout of insomnia, figured I'd catch up on what I've been watching the last few months:

Dumb & Dumber To (Peter & Bobby Farrelly, 2014) - Was hating on this pretty hard as it start off poorly and the jokes are really thin at first but by the end I warmed up to it quite a bit. Still at least ten years too late but since its not terrible its a win overall.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves, 2014) - Fucking. Awesome.

Four Rooms (Allison Anders, Alex Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, 1995) - This didn't hold up that well for me. Robert Rodriguez's segment is still great and Tarantino's is good, but couldn't muster the shits to give about the other two segments.

Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kumel, 1971) - Was expecting this to be some B-grade italian smut but instead of lesbian exploitation I got a rather fantastic and unique twist to the vampire genre. Its really well-directed and just an all around beautiful film, and its got this mysterious ambience to it that just enchanted the fuck outta me.

The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-Wai, 2013) - This is basically kung-fu porn. Wong Kar-Wai can stage a puddle fight like a motherfucker. Enjoyed this and yet I expected more, Wong Kar-Wai's only other film in the genre, Ashes of Time Redux, is a lot better. There's just not a lot of meat on its bones and it doesn't really tell much of a story.

Jack Reacher (Christopher McQuarrie, 2012) - Apparently I like this way more than most people. A lot of the backlash against the movie was just because midget-ass Cruise was cast as a character described in the books as a 6'6" beast, but if you're like me and don't give a fuck about the books and judge it on its merits, you'll find a very intense thriller with a lot of great/memorable action sequences.

The Last Rites of Ransom Pride (Tiller Russell, 2010) - I've been morbidly curious about this one for a long time, since it has an interesting cast (Peter Dinklage, Dwight Yoakam, Jason Priestley, Kris Kristofferson and of course, my boo Lizzy Caplan in the title role). Problem is everything else about it is a mess and it looks like shit, even by low-budget standards. Lizzy's terrible western accent produced a lot of laughs though.

Dead Snow 2: Red Vs. Dead (Tommy Wirkola, 2014) - An excellent followup to the modern Norwegian cult classic. The introduction of the Russian zombies was a nice touch and it maintains the same balance of delightful violence and dark humor. Plus any movie that closes with Total Eclipse of the Heart gets some love around these parts.

The 10th Victim (Elio Petri, 1965) - An odd yet entertaining blend of science fiction and the Most Dangerous Game scenario of people hunting people for sport. This is filled with a lot of great visuals and is notable for the introduction of boob guns, which Mike Myers notably lifted for the Austin Powers movies.

Quest for Fire (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1981) - A mostly language free tale of prehistoric cavemen on a journey to find fire. Features Ron Perlman in his debut role, one he was born to play, he's the most convincing troglodyte I've ever seen. Plus you get to see Rae Dawn Chong give the world's first blowjob AND invent the missionary position. What a woman.

Hitchcock (Sacha Gervasi, 2012) - Another movie that got slammed in a lot of places that I found to be mostly enjoyable. Anthony Hopkin's Hitch is a bit too campy at times but still a lot of fun.

Flame & Citron (Ole Christian Madsen, 2008) - Excellent WWII hitman thriller starring Mads Mikkelsen, whose just as captivating here as he is in pretty much every single thing he does.

Cane Toads: The Conquest (Mark Lewis, 2010) - The sequel to maybe the greatest man versus nature doc ever made, Cane Toads: An Unnatural History. This one is similarly entertaining as these fat frog fucks slowly take over an entire continent.

Johnny Carson: King of Late Night (Peter Jones, 2012) - Waste of time. 2 hours long and you get no real insight into the real Carson at all, there are hundreds of Carson stories out there, especially regarding his drinking and womanizing, but this just glances over that stuff to give a sugarcoated overview of his life's work. You'd be better off just watching old Tonight Show clips on youtube for two hours.

Tank Girl (Rachel Talalay, 1995) - An interesting failure of a movie that has acquired somewhat of a minor cult status in some circles. It's one of the most 90's looking movies ever made and has some fun comic book art direction but it didn't do a lot for me. But worth watching just to see Ice-T as a talking mutant kangaroo.


The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, 2014) - God status. Action movies should never be this long though, christ.

Life Itself (Steve James, 2014) - I finally got around to reading the book last year after Ebert's death, this is a great companion piece and certainly worth a watch for any of his fans.

Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1985) - This should go on the list of ultimate Man Movies. Jon Voight at his most gulliest as an escaped convict trapped on a runaway train in the middle of a snowy wilderness. Would make an awesome double bill with Death Hunt.

All Good Things (Andrew Jarecki, 2010) - Its almost fucking impossible for me to judge this impartially having viewed The Jinx first, but this fictionalized version of the Robert Durst murders was pretty good. The Gos does fine work in here like usual.

Footprints on the Moon (Luigi Bazzoni, 1975) - Had a bro-date with drizzle to see this on the big screen in NYC and we both loved the shit out of it. Not even remotely a giallo even though it seems to always be lumped into the genre. Also not a science fiction movie either, once I got over my disappointment in realizing that fact I really started to appreciate it for what it was, a really excellent psychological mindfuck mystery.

Chariots of the Gods (Harald Reinl, 1970) - The ultimate conspiracy theory documentary about how the earth was visited by aliens in the past and built the pyramids. Extremely entertaining as long as you don't take it seriously, even when it raises some interesting questions.

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Alex Gibney, 2015) - Above average but I was expecting more relevations about the cult. Most of everything in here is already well-known, you'd learn more from reading Paul Haggis's article in the New Yorker a few years back.

The Zero Theorem (Terry Gilliam, 2013) - Enjoyed this even though it never really gels into anything substantial. But few can build a fantasy world like Gilliam.

Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story (Brant Sersen, 2004) - Pretty entertaining comedy about a professional paintballer trying to make a comeback 10 years after he was exiled from his league. Has a really fantastic before-they-were-famous cast, basically a who's who of current comedy with the likes of Paul Scheer, Ed Helms, Rob Riggle, Jack McBrayer, Rob Huebel and of course Rob Corddry in the lead role, who's probably the most underrated comedy glue guy in the current comedy world.

The Purge: Anarchy (James DeMonaco, 2014) - The John Carpenter comparisons made me cave and break my rule of never watching sequel without having seen the first movie. The Carpenter vibes are legit, but really the movie that this owes its existence to the most is Walter Hill's The Warriors. A group of people, forced to traverse through a murderous city filled with colorful street gangs, having to reach home by morning to stay alive. It's pretty much the exact same premise.

Boss Nigger (Jack Arnold, 1975) - After watching this I'm convinced that Michael Jai White modeled the Black Dynamite character after Fred Williamson in this. I don't care if its true or not. Instantly one of my favorite blacksploitation movies ever, just really really funny and everyone in it seems like they are having a ball.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Marc Webb, 2014) - Crap.

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Tommy Wirkola, 2013) - Don't have much to say about this, it was moderately entertaining but I already forgot most of it. A decent time-waster.

The Battered Bastards of Baseball (Chapman & Maclain Way, 2014) - Pretty cool documentary about Kurt Russell's dad and his independent minor league baseball team.

Showrunners (Des Doyle, 2014) - This is the downside of Netflix, sometimes you end up watching some random-ass shit that turns out to be a big waste of time. The director interviewed almost every major current tv showrunner, which sounds cool on paper but ends up just being 2 hours of 50 different people telling you their job is hard. It doesn't really give any insight into what the job entails though and a better approach would have been to stick with a much smaller group of showrunners and actually follow them in their day-to-day duties for an extended period of time.

Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen, 2015) - Amazing documentary about one of my all-time favorite artists. A very intimate portrait of a star that burnt out too quick, there's some really private/shocking stuff in here, watching Kurt nod off holding his baby while high as shit on heroin is just really really sad to see. But then he gets high and mockingly sings Soundgarden's Outshined and all is good again. Major props to Lefty for hooking me up with this before it even aired on HBO.

Over the Edge (Jonathan Kaplan, 1979) - Oddly, the Cobain doc shines an odd amount of time on this movie, playing clips of the movie in the background while playing a recording of Kurt talking on the phone with someone about how much he loved this movie. While watching that, I realized that this was a movie I bought a long time ago and never left my unwatched pile so I decided to give it a spin. Really great teenage angst/anti-authority film that succeeds because it feels remarkably authentic and is one of those rare movies with exception casting of the kids.

The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder, 1955) - This is one of the best examples of when someone has true star power. The main character played by Tom Ewell is so bad that it should have buried the movie. He fumbles pretty much every joke, and frankly is just annoying and completely unlikeable. But every time you start to sour on the film, Marilyn Monroe pops into the frame and everything turns magical. She's deservedly famous for her beauty and her ability to turn even the simplest things into the sexiest thing imaginable, but she never gets enough respect for her comedic abilities, her physicality and timing here is fucking impeccable.

God Bless America (Bobcat Goldthwait, 2011) - A middle aged man and a high school teenager go on a cross country killing spree, ridding the world of assholes, one self-absorbed piece of shit at a time. Really enjoyed this.

Europa Report (Sebastian Cordero, 2013) - Above average sci fi adventure with a solid cast that rises above its modest budget.

Seventh Son (Sergey Bodrov, 2014) - This sucked. Stay to see Jon Snow die in a fire in the first 15 minutes, then turn it off and watch something else.

Two Rode Together (John Ford, 1961) - This is a lesser Ford, even Ford himself wasn't proud of it and admitted he did it for the money. But its still a decent western adventure, and watching Jimmy Stewart play a drunk asshole for an hour and a half is always fun.

Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn, 2014) - Sooo so great. Vaughn skillfully combines the early Bond-era spy films with action stylings of the modern era and comes up with something wholly original and endlessly entertaining. The church fight is the greatest action scene of the past year outside of Mad Max Fury Road.

Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma, 1998) - Seen it before a bunch of times, but not in the last ten years at least. Always thought this was a better than average De Palma film and I still stand by it. Cage is in peak form here and even though I know that 15-minute long take is a cheat with multiple hidden splices, its still a thing of beauty.

Super (James Gunn, 2010) - Was disappointed in this considering how much I love Gunn's other films, Slither & Guardians of the Galaxy. Problem is that everything this does, Kick-Ass did better.

Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013) - This is one of those movies that I wasn't entirely thrilled about after it ended, cause it seems like it doesn't really go anywhere but then I couldn't stop thinking about it and finally pieced it all together and now I love it. At first I thought that Bob Dylan showing up at the end was a little too on-the-nose, but then I realized that's kind of the point, that sometimes really talented people just get lost in history while even more talented people take their place. I also really appreciate how the Coen's constantly subvert typical redemption tropes at every turn, from the Chicago audition, to driving right past the town of his child, or where there's a big emotional build-up while playing for his dad only to end in a pair of shitty pants. Oscar Isaac is really amazing here and looks like a real natural as a musician.

Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2015) - Really wanted to love this but ultimately its just an average movie and probably the worst of Mann's career to date. I was supportive of Mann being an early adopter of digital video and was part of the group that thought Public Enemies was an overall successful experiment. But its all wrong for this film. Mann's strengths as a director have always been mood and visual aesthetic and he's starting to lose that. This film should be beautiful, it was filmed in a bunch of visually interesting places in a bunch of different countries, but then he shoots it on a handheld like some amateur found-footage horror piece of shit.

All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930) - World War 1 film worth watching due to its importance in the grand scheme of cinema but not necessarily a true classic film. The action sequences with the trench warfare are surprisingly intense and violent. Problem is sandwiched between them is a lot of hokey scenes where they try to beat a message into the movie with a blunt object. WW1 is terribly underrepresented in film, but this just hasn't aged all that well and parts of it seem incredibly silly when compared to say, Kubrick's Paths of Glory.

[drizzle]

Drizzle I'm kinda bummed you didn't like LA Takedown. It's several notches below Heat in every way possible, but overall I was impressed at how well it hits pretty much all the same beats.
You're comment about Mann's career is pretty interesting though, there's definitely something in there.

I enjoyed it for what it was, it was just bracing how choppy and rough around the edges it is considering how polished of a film maker Mann is. The Crime Story pilot, which is also lowbudget, felt like an old Hollywood epic with a cast of thousands by comparison.

But am I the only one who thought Kingsmen was trash? Tonally uneven, nonsensical plot even in the context of what it was, didn't buy Firth or the lead at all, the interesting snobs vs slobs idea is wasted, Sam Jackson's role is confused and borderline embarrassing, the action is waaaaaay too CGI'd and totally lifeless. the meta commentary about spy movies being too serious was eyerolling, etc etc etc. The only good element was the girl with no legs. IDK if I expect too much or yall are just easy to please but damn yo....

[Tommy Bunz]

I think it all depends on how you look at it. Most of the spy movies that we grew up on and that its paying homage to also share most of those negative traits if you think about it, but that's also where a lot of the charm comes from. Even the most popular Bond movies are pretty silly and nonsensical, Thunderball is so ridiculous the Austin Powers movies lifted stuff straight out of it without even changing anything (numbered bad guys, sharks with lasers). Firth isn't anything special, but neither was Roger Moore and he was in some of the best Bond movies ever. Shit, Lazenby did On Her Majesty's Secret Service and he was a straight up faggot.
Sam Jackson's lispy villain was entirely retarded but that just made it more fun for me. Its a turn-your-mind-off and enjoy it type of movie.
You didn't like the church fight?

[drizzle]

I think it all depends on how you look at it. Most of the spy movies that we grew up on and that its paying homage to also share most of those negative traits if you think about it, but that's also where a lot of the charm comes from. Even the most popular Bond movies are pretty silly and nonsensical, Thunderball is so ridiculous the Austin Powers movies lifted stuff straight out of it without even changing anything (numbered bad guys, sharks with lasers). Firth isn't anything special, but neither was Roger Moore and he was in some of the best Bond movies ever. Shit, Lazenby did On Her Majesty's Secret Service and he was a straight up faggot.
Sam Jackson's lispy villain was entirely retarded but that just made it more fun for me. Its a turn-your-mind-off and enjoy it type of movie.
You didn't like the church fight?

The church fight was fine but none of the action left a very strong impression tbh. It was all proficient but at a time when Mad Max has you feeling every bump in the road and Raid has you feeling every punch, a bunch of CGI blood and civilians on wires against a greenscreen has limited appeal to me.

You have a point about spy movies being silly, but it was fitting in the context of the genre. Kingsmen never felt like a spy movie to me, not even a spoof of one. It felt like one of those young adult superhero movies like Divergent or some shit with the other dude from Twilight. The spy elements were entirely superficial, just a way to have gadgets and flamboyant characters on screen without explicitly invoking capes and fantasy. I kept thinking that Vaughn wanted to recapture whatever worked in Kick Ass here, but struggled to find his footing without a strong source material to work with. Keep in mind I didn't think Kick Ass was all that either, but still enjoyed it more than this.

[ian e]

Lives of a cat - german movie from the 80s (originally called "Die Katze"). basically a heist movie about two guys robbing a bank while the real brain behind the robbery proves to be outside the building. this movie seems to be hailed as one of the best german movies in that genre.
enjoyed it quite a lot once i got over its 80s-vhs-like look...

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[Comedy Quaddafi]

American Gigolo (1980) - Schraeder writes and directs in this sombre showreel for Richard Gere and his buttondowns. Refn also seems to have taken notes of how to make LA look really cool and sleazy. This is a boring and pointless movie but I like it because everyone in the films seems to know what they're doing - even if it isn't much. Schraeder seems to genuinely hate his protagonist which makes everything a bit awkward and mean. If nothing else it's a daring film.

Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989) - German docu-maker Wim Wenders visits Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto in Tokyo. If that sounds interesting at all to you then you should watch this immediately. Yohji is more like a philosopher than a guy who designs runningshoes for Adidas - and is more or less the perfect docu-subject for a highminded German who doesn't mind indulging in pretentious rants about the soul of a dinnerjacket. The film is also about Tokyo, hence the title. At times the scenes where Yohji directs models and plays with scissors and black fabric can get a bit dull.

[Spartan]

This is a boring and pointless movie but I like it because everyone in the films seems to know what they're doing - even if it isn't much.

American Gigolo has been on my mind quite a bit lately. Maybe it's because of the Blondie song.

[ric]

30 days of night. great take on vampires. cool setting. the acting is surprisingly very good especially Danny Huston

proceeding to watch salt which has turned into one of my favorite action movies. love Liev Schreiber and actually enjoy Jolie and her performance. cool concept. done well.