'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
It surprises me to say that this looks as good as it ever did! Probably the main thing that dates this is the boob gags. In a kid’s film?
Possibly my favourite film noir.
★★★★
Thing is the best CGI character since Gollum.
Disgruntled ex-CIA operative Strannix, his assistant Krill and their group of terrorists seize the battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback -- an error that could be fatal.
I don’t have much to add to the reviews already on letterboxd.
There some crazy dialogue and stunt work but it’s done with such a straight face it sets this really unusual tone that I kind of dig.
★★★
How exactly did “tad bit” enter the American English lexicon?!
Tad: a little bit; a small amount; a little; slightly
Bit: a small piece or amount of something; slightly
Drives me bananas. Although people do say “freezing cold” and “boiling hot”, though, I guess technically, some things boil at very low temperatures.
Massive thumbs up to @tapbots for moving on with such grace and alacrity! https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/
Another brid.gy test. Why does it keep breaking?
Well, it’s too late now…
I’ve discovered that they add (!) to closed captions when someone is being sarcastic. I’m going to use that online 😊
These are a symptom of some cancers, where tumours erode major blood vessels resulting in extensive and rapid blood loss that leads to death. Estimates are unreliable but more than 1 in 10 people with advanced cancer could die this way. Guidance for the management of terminal haemorrhages suggests the use of dark sheets and towels to camouflage the extent of the blood loss. That’s it.
If you live in the UK and you think you, or someone you know, would like the choice to avoid such a fate, please consider taking this survey: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/M66AML/
The information above was taken from this report: https://www.dignityindying.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/DiD_Inescapable_Truth_WEB.pdf
I’m speechless that this even needs to be written
