Last week, I watched another half dozen movies.
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I agree with most everything Mark Kermode says about DON’T WORRY DARLING here. The movie is nothing but a waiting game, to see which twist they’ve decided on, but it’s not an interesting twist, and it could just as easily have been half a dozen others. Florence Pugh turns in a good performance, but there isn’t much else to recommend it, and you could drive a vintage car through all its plot holes and unanswered questions.
If you want a movie where Amazons riding unicorns to fight robots and a space princess isn’t even close to the goofiest thing that happens, then THE ICE PIRATES is definitely for you. The New York Times described it at the time as “a Star Wars spin-off made in an underdeveloped galaxy,” and while there’s some charm to that and its cheapness, the movie isn’t exactly what you might call good.
There are a lot of good performances in DEEP COVER–which manages to feel only a little overly ‘90s–but Laurence Fishburne is especially good in it.
ALONE IN THE DARK does some interesting things with its slightly odd premise.
BILLY ELLIOT has its charms.
I don’t know that I love all of the songs in FUNNY GIRL, but it’s hard not to find something to love when Streisand and Sharif are on screen.