#Tomey reviews

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📽️ Someone Like You (2001)

It took me a minute to remember this movie. It’s not a super memorable one just because it’s a simple, cliched rom com. It’s not super original, but it is entertaining. It’s not surprising, again, because it’s a typical rom com. The basic plot was good, and the acting was good. Even though it wasn’t anything mind blowing, I’d probably watch it again.

Sex/nudity: 4/10 (one sex scene with the side of a breast shown, man and female walk around in underwear a lot)

Language: 2/10 (I don’t really remember a ton, but I know there was some)

Violence: 1/10 (I don’t remember any but I’m giving it a one just in case there was some)

Overall rating: 6/10

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Brothers (2024) review

May this be the end of the Brenaissance?…

Plot: Two criminal twin brothers, one trying to reform, embark on a dangerous heist road trip. Facing legal troubles, gunfights and family drama, they must reconcile their differences before their mission leads to self-destruction.

I am of course kidding - nothing will stop Brendan Fraser from eventually fulfilling his destiny of total dominance of Hollywood and becoming the ultimate No 1 A-lister, and so far with winning an Academy Award for his incredible and raw performance in The Whale as well as popping up in a memorable cameo appearance in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon he’s been right on track. Brothers may be a small dip, however of all the cast members Fraser may be the only one to come out completely unscathed on the other side. In fact, Fraser in Brothers reminded me a lot of the early days quirky Fraser roles like in George of the Jungle and Bedazzled just to name a few, where he over-acts every line yet he does so in such an entertaining and endearing way that you can’t help but enjoy his shenanigans. He’s a big bear-sized goofster here, and he’s evidently having the time of his life, and when Brendan is happy then we’re happy! The guy deserves all the love, just saying.

Anyway, as for the rest of Brothers, this is a huge misfire from Amazon Prime Video. Coming from the director of Palm Springs, which in all honestly was a decent little indie Groundhog Day style rom-com, all that charm is nowhere to be seen in his new film. This seems to want to place itself in the same endearing-white-trash-crime-family sandbox as Logan Lucky, only that it doesn’t really know what to do with its narrative-centric heist other than “we gotsta find these jewels” but let’s just get distracted by random unfunny shenanigans and oh what’s that? Ah yes, it’s Josh Brolin reluctantly jacking off an orangutan. Seriously, that’s in the movie. But yes, this movie is painfully unfunny, bland and forgettable. In fact it’s a tad embarrassing for all involved, especially the main cast who have more promising things to sign up for, so one wonders why they wasted their time here. Josh Brolin especially seems like a bankable star these days - was he really that short on cash to be needing to be here?

In short, this straight-to-streaming release is destined to get lost within the endless library of Prime Video, and is not even worth watching as a casual Saturday evening viewing. Honestly, the writing is terrible, so if you’re seeking a movie about two siblings endlessly bickering, then simply revert your eyes to Step Brothers and discover all you need to know about the Catalina Wine Mixer!

Overall score: 2/10

P.S. I’ve just read up on IMDb that Brothers’ screenplay was written by Etan Cohen, who’s responsible for that Holmes & Watson parody with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly from a few years back. It’s all beginning to make sense now!

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the state of my letterboxd…

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Cyrus (2010)

The laughs and sweetness of Cyrus are accompanied by puzzling decisions from the screenplay. This film could’ve approached its premise in numerous ways. Instead of picking one, it goes for all of them. The talented cast mostly save the picture, but the results are uneven.

Depressed, lonely John (John C. Reilly) is coaxed by his ex-wife Jamie (Catherine Keener) into attending a party. There, he meets Molly (Marisa Tomei) and they immediately hit it off. As love blossoms, John meets Molly's son, Cyrus (Jonah Hill). There's a reason she was keeping their romance hidden from her 21-year-old, clingy son.

I didn’t really enjoy Cyrus but kind of want to recommend it anyway. Marisa Tomei and John C. Reilly are so good together that the idea of someone seeing their scenes makes me feel good inside. They form a strong foundation for the film. You get bad vibes from Cyrus immediately and want to see how their love will triumph. There are also numerous off-beat funny moments. John keeps going back to his ex for advice on Molly as she’s getting ready to marry his “replacement”. It’s such a weird scenario you can’t help but smile.

As you watch Cyrus, you attempt to mentally categorize it so you can figure out what you can expect next. As soon as you see Cyrus, he establishes himself as a weirdo. You place your bets on him being so socially inept that he’s afraid to leave home and that his thinly veiled attempts to break up the new couple will only cease after John gets the young man to grow up. But then, writer/directors Jay and Mark Duplass show us a picture of Molly breastfeeding her son when he’s about 6 years old on her nightstand. So it’s not the son that’s the problem; it’s the mother, right? But then the film has Cyrus - clearly in control of his actions - deliberately sabotaging things between his mom and John while Molly stands there, oblivious to everything. What kind of comedy is this? You can’t just have it every way; you’ve got to pick a direction. That's the only way the characters can remain consistent and for the gags to build upon each other successfully.

Even if Cyrus appeals to you - not entirely out of the realm of possibility since it has good performances and many funny scenes - I can’t see this as more than a one-and-done. As something you watch at home for the price of a rental, it's fine, but even as one of these mumblecore comedies, this is more of an introduction to better things than a future favourite. (November 10, 2020)

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UNTAMED HEART- 1993 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Caroline (Marisa Tomei) works as a waitess in a diner where she never notices quiet bus boy Adam (Christian Slater) who is secretly in love with her ...

Until one night, shes walking home and two guys jump her. Thankfully it turns out Adam follows her home every night and is able to beat up the creepy guys and take her home.

Although shes initially skeptical of his odd mannerisms and bashful nature, it isnt long before they fall madly in love.

Theres just one problem..... inside his chest is a ticking time bomb. A baboon heart!

Ok so i absolutely loved this movie. Great 90s romcom with a great couple in Tomei and Slater. The baboon heart storyline had me laughing a lot. Came out of nowhere and so was childish. And looking into this film after watching i see its original title was "the baboon heart". Jesus.

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The narrative style reminds me a lot of A Christmas Story. Not as good but still good when it’s good.

Love the Coopers (titled Christmas with the Coopers in the UK and Ireland) is a 2015 American Christmas comedy-drama film directed by Jessie Nelson and written by Steven Rogers. The film stars an ensemble cast, including Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Diane Keaton, Jake Lacy, Anthony Mackie, Amanda Seyfried, June Squibb, Marisa Tomei, Timothée Chalamet, Olivia Wilde and features the voice of Steve Martin.

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Look, "She Came to Me" was a solid B that I can recommend. If you like feel-good indie movies, by all means watch it.

But I've got a bone to pick with the way this movie was marketed! The trailer was promising me a "Fatal Attraction" remake starring Peter Dinklage and Marisa Tomei. And what I got was two up and coming actors playing teenagers planning to elope. The wedding subplot was fine I guess, and I'm not even saying I wanted the boat captain to kill the playwright with an axe. Having Marisa Tomei's character just be a genuinely good person who fell into some stalking tendencies years ago but has since worked to turn her life around, that was a refreshing subversion of the trope. But what annoys me is there wasn't much development of her character past the point in the story covered by the trailer, and I feel like that was on purpose.

I guess there are dirtier tricks out there, than baiting audiences with A-list celebrities so we would watch something with Harlow Jane and Evan Ellison, but I just feel lied to, and this wasn't even the first indie movie to burn me like this recently. I was willing to cut "American Fiction" some slack, because in that case it felt like a prank on the audience calling us racist for wanting to see this movie based on the trailer, but this is the second time in a row I paid for a movie thinking it was going to be somewhat of a thriller, and instead it was a laid-back slice of life movie. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The boat captain and the playwright were less than 50% of the plot, and that was not reflected in the marketing.

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Screener Squad: She Came To Me SHE CAME TO ME MOVIE REVIEW You know what they say: you can’t spell opera without Oh, perhaps a saucy affair is in order. Writer/director Rebecca Miller presents She Came to Me. Brilliant composer of transcendent operas Steven Lauddem (Peter Dinklage) is a suffering artist who has come down with a horrible case of writer’s block and the heartbreaking loss of inspiration. His spouse, Dr. Patricia Jessup-Lauddem (Anne Hathaway), is a total neat freak who loves cleaning, schedules, routines, and perfect posture. They are raising an 18 year old college student, Julian (Evan Ellison), who excels in the sciences and… Read More »Screener Squad: She Came To Me read more on One of Us

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She Came to Me (dir. Rebecca Miller).

There are few too many ideas and quirks to the peculiar romantic comedy starring Peter Dinklage and Anne Hathaway as a couple (a self-loathing opera composer and clean freak therapist) with unique marital problems. It's hard to believe the film introduces so many strands, including tugboats, statutory rape, Civil War reenactments, and environmental engineering, among many other issues.

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What Women Want (2000)

The fact that I was having sex when I watched this (not during the film, just sexually active) made me feel pretty grown up and in the know. I haven’t watched the film since but my main recollection was wishing Marisa Tomei had more screen time. I also think I started to recognise something which I’d later identify as Toxic Masculinity, as well as something called Hating Mel Gibson. I guess he’s supposed to be kind of redeemed by the end but I don’t know if I buy it.

I never understood how telepathy was supposed to work anyway. Can you really ‘read’ a mind if we don’t always think in words? To properly read someone’s thoughts you’d need to know their memories and be familiar with their unique personal inner language. For context, maybe you’d need to actually feel their emotions to really understand what they’re thinking, since thought is emotional after all. If our conscious experience is our reality, then wouldn’t you have to actually be the other person to ever really know their thoughts? Then what would happen when you came back into your own mind? Would you still be you? Where would the other person’s mind be while you were occupying it? Maybe this film answers these questions. I can’t remember.

If you think about it, this film is fairly terrifying on many levels, perhaps they should have made it into a horror movie instead of a romantic comedy; it was too lighthearted to do the premise justice. Having said that, this is probably true of more comedies than we’d care to imagine.

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My Cousin Vinny

Summary: When two young men travelling through Alabama are falsely accused of murder, they enlist Vinny Gambini (Joe Pesci), a cousin and a lawyer who recently passed the bar exam on his fifth attempt, to defend them.

Quotable slice of fish-out-of-water comedy with fiery Marisa Tomei and weary Fred Gwynne. Legal attention to detail astonishing too.

Rating: 4.5/5

Photo credit: People

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THE WRESTLER- 2008 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Mickey Rourke gives the performance of a lifetime as Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a washed up pro wrestler down on his luck. Randy was famous in the 80's and wrestled for huge crowds, he now performs on the indie circuit to a small group of hardcore fans. After a show he has a heart attack and the doctors tell him he cant wrestle anymore. This forces him to reexamine his life and his mortality, choosing between chasing his dreams in the ring, and facing the realities of aging. Randy pursues a stripper he has feelings for and tries to rekindle his relationship with his estranged daughter....

Beautiful character driven drama. Very moving and sad. Rourke absolutely crushes it and both Marisa Tomei and and Evan Rachel Wood shine in supporting roles. Loved the realism at the wrestling shows, they filmed at real promotions like CZW and ROH. Randy even has a match with deathmatch legend Necro Butcher.

Aronofsky's best film hands down in my opinion.

One of my favourite movies.

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week twenty-three (missed) (19/9/22 & 13/12/22) (22:08 & 18:56)

Alfie

3/10

marisa tomei 🥰 4th wall break. “big ben”. “he gave her the tip” - [friend]. very andrew tate. i get that hes supposed to be a piece of shit but like fucking your best friends girlfriend? like am i supposed to feel bad for him that he doesn’t get to give the gift to the wee boy after he chronically cheated on his mum with anyone and everyone. fetishisation of lesbians 😍 conning them into a threesome 🫶 oh darn impotence ☹️ 🎶’cause karma is my boyfriend. karma is the lump on his penis🎶shocker 😒 acting shitty gives shitty consequences?! women have imperfections?! he’s such a cunt like she has a mental illness and he’s like “ew gross” i don’t understand why im supposed to feel bad for him. gets cheated on and acts like he’s been shot like huh? ironic was a calendar word? it’s not about cheating on every single woman you’ve ever been with. jeez i thought he’d get a redemption arch but no just more shitty.

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Upgraded: A Review

It has been almost 20 years since the debut of The Devil Wears Prada, and for that reason, the timing of Upgraded’s release is interesting. This movie definitely exists in the same vein as its counterpart, and I think it’s clever that this film capitalized on the similarities it shares with TDWP to reinvigorate interest in the genre. Camila Mendes is at times, a fun actress, and was the main selling point that ultimately convinced me to watch this movie, but…

Pros:

* Camila Mendes’ performance provides the main character with a well-developed personality. Instead of the usual wide-eyed innocent or fish-out-of-water archetype, the protagonist has a biting sense of humor, she’s down-on-her-luck, irresponsible, sassy, and even a bit vengeful

* It’s refreshing to finally see art history majors, and Irish folk, represented in film

* Ana and William (the film’s love interests) share decent chemistry

* The costume design is more grounded in reality than other films like it and most of the outfits are sophisticated while still looking achievable

* Marisa Tomei in anything is always a plus

* The film’s setting is extravagant and the cinematography in this movie perfectly captures what makes England such a tourist spot

Cons:

* Ana (the main character) is presented with very few obstacles that would make it difficult to achieve success in her career. She coincidentally makes connections with people who immediately elevate her position in life and there are few instances in which the protagonist earns what she has accomplished in the working world. Ana is also set up as a career-oriented woman, but once she meets Will, (the love interest), she becomes far too easily distracted by him and her character arc gives way to an underdeveloped romance

* Ana is characterized as a liar. Despite the level of dishonesty she demonstrates to her coworkers, each of them forgive her far too easily and she suffers no consequences for her actions

* Marisa Tomei is a great actress, but as a result of bad direction, her performance is not very strong. Her character, Claire DuPont, is described as terrifying and demanding to work for, but her actions and behaviors hardly support this characterization. Claire is the movie’s central antagonist and is supposed to serve as Upgraded’s version of Miranda Priestly. Unfortunately, Tomei’s portrayal of Claire DuPont is so much more “cushy” than Miranda Priestly that she does not give the movie a sense of conflict it so badly needs. Tomei is also forced to talk with a cartoonish French accent, which… ugh

* Two rival coworkers are introduced in this movie, but if they were removed from the script, nothing would change, and neither of them pose a real threat to the main character

Verdict: Upgraded is a film that tries and fails to create an upbeat narrative about achieving one’s dreams and finding success in a cutthroat industry. This movie had so much potential to become The Devil Wears Prada for a new generation, but there are many reasons Upgraded does not work on a fundamental level. I can appreciate its attempts to pay homage to a good chick flick, but despite the film’s great setup, its execution and payoff are disappointing. I can only lie in anxious wait for the next big-budget attempt to recapture the magic of one of the most iconic movies of the 2000s.