REVIEW: The Disaster Artist [2017]

Give me your pinky. If I hadn’t known already, James Franco‘s The Disaster Artist confirms it: I’m not a connoisseur of the “cringe laugh.” I’ve always been the one attendee of a midnight screening of a C-list film who isn’t laughing because the artists who put what I’m watching together didn’t mean for it to be funny. I’m filled with second-hand embarrassment instead. Some people can allow themselves to ignore the fact that they’re laughing at the cast and crew in these scenarios rather than the finished product and some…

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REVIEW: The Room [2003]

Did you know chocolate is the symbol of love? I didn’t think it could be this bad. How’s it possible? How could the hype not prove hyperbolic? How could there not be one redeeming aspect in the entirety of Tommy Wiseau‘s vision? But then you watch and discover it’s true. The Room is quite possibly the worst movie ever made and people still watch it. That’s why “ever” tracks—we haven’t just dismissed it outright and stopped giving its creator credence. Instead the general public has fueled his yearning for fame…

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