Joel Edgerton, starring Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman SCREENS LATE: The film that should have actually been titled mid90s.īoy Erased (11/2) – Dir. Ion shed a tear at Sundance for this one.
ION PACK: A genuinely touching portrait of female grace pitted against the perverse power of male entitlement, Sandi Tan gifts us with this heartbreaking tale about the naïveté of young filmmaking. The most glaring omission from Jonah’s debut is that the song “Santa Monica” by Everclear isn’t on the soundtrack.
SCREENS LATE: Pity that the Gen Z audience this movie is marketed to was neither alive in the mid-’90s nor watches movies. We wish he was still looking for these instead of Dunks: ION PACK: Interesting to see Jonah Hill cosplaying as a SoCal skater bro. From 2018’s debuts (Jonah Hill’s mid90s and Sandi Tan’s Shirkers) to its best movie contenders (Barry Jenkin’s If Beale Street Could Talk and Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma), you’ll have no excuse to not have an opinion, or corresponding meme to reference, about this year’s most talked about films. Fortunately for us, and for you, we’ve asked Screens Late and The Ion Pack, two anonymous (and collectively-run) Instagram accounts to preview the fall film slate with their most askew takes on 19 of this year’s festival-circuit darlings, big-box remakes, and award-season hopefuls (for added fun, the pair are rumored to be nurturing a low-key beef with each other). As such, to be a discerning cinephile in an age of pure digital cinema has become something like skipping through a minefield. So much so, that age of Peak TV feels like one large, fuzzy Breaking Bad recap post. We find ourselves in a present where “indie” studios, major studios, and streaming platforms such as Amazon and Netflix are churning out more ambitious projects by an increasingly diverse, diffuse, and untested cohort of filmmakers, writers, and stars. We took this still from Jonah Hill’s ‘mid90s’ off of Youtube.