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Critter cinema
Animals arrive in this week's new movie releases, including Pandas and Tehran Taboo
Let's start with the big new release: for some reason, there's a rooster in the poster for Blockers, a movie about parents trying to preserve their daughters' virginity. What's that about? (Cue Beavis & Butthead chuckle.)
Movie
Blockers *
Just passable gross-out comedy, in which three obsessive parents (Leslie Mann, John Cena, and Ike Barinholtz) — all far more repulsed by the thought of lost virginity than their respective begats — combine forces to cockblock their daughters on prom night. As it must in all Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg productions, the air is steeped in pot smoke, blithe insouciance on the part of the screenwriters (in this case, Brian & Jim Kehoe), and an obligatory penis cameo. Unless one counts Mann’s random discovery of her daughter’s college acceptance letter while ostensibly in search of an evening wrap, there’s not much in the way of structured storytelling. Mann and Barinholtz are old pros when it comes to this type of raunchy shenanigans, while Cena proves he’s more of a good sport than a likely actor. On a positive note, this will probably best be remembered for giving the lusty trio of female offspring the ultimate power of post-formal hotel room-veto.
At the other end of the spectrum (in more ways than one), there's Tehran Taboo, playing in exactly one theater locally. No animal in the poster, but there's a cat who embodies a pretty powerful theme.
Foxtrot has an animal in the title, but no actual foxes, I'm guessing.
Gemini has a sort of metaphorical animal — the lost puppy who follows you home and trips your motion-detecting security lights.
But Pandas? Animal in title, poster, and film. Trifecta. Alas, unreviewed.
Also reviewed: Finding Your Feet.
Also unreviewed: A Quiet Place (which seems to promise critters of the nasty variety), Ramen Heads, The Miracle Season.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Critter cinema
Animals arrive in this week's new movie releases, including Pandas and Tehran Taboo
Critter cinema
Animals arrive in this week's new movie releases, including Pandas and Tehran Taboo
Let's start with the big new release: for some reason, there's a rooster in the poster for Blockers, a movie about parents trying to preserve their daughters' virginity. What's that about? (Cue Beavis & Butthead chuckle.)
Movie
Blockers *
Just passable gross-out comedy, in which three obsessive parents (Leslie Mann, John Cena, and Ike Barinholtz) — all far more repulsed by the thought of lost virginity than their respective begats — combine forces to cockblock their daughters on prom night. As it must in all Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg productions, the air is steeped in pot smoke, blithe insouciance on the part of the screenwriters (in this case, Brian & Jim Kehoe), and an obligatory penis cameo. Unless one counts Mann’s random discovery of her daughter’s college acceptance letter while ostensibly in search of an evening wrap, there’s not much in the way of structured storytelling. Mann and Barinholtz are old pros when it comes to this type of raunchy shenanigans, while Cena proves he’s more of a good sport than a likely actor. On a positive note, this will probably best be remembered for giving the lusty trio of female offspring the ultimate power of post-formal hotel room-veto.
At the other end of the spectrum (in more ways than one), there's Tehran Taboo, playing in exactly one theater locally. No animal in the poster, but there's a cat who embodies a pretty powerful theme.
Foxtrot has an animal in the title, but no actual foxes, I'm guessing.
Gemini has a sort of metaphorical animal — the lost puppy who follows you home and trips your motion-detecting security lights.
But Pandas? Animal in title, poster, and film. Trifecta. Alas, unreviewed.
Also reviewed: Finding Your Feet.
Also unreviewed: A Quiet Place (which seems to promise critters of the nasty variety), Ramen Heads, The Miracle Season.
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