Critique-Opolis
Jay & Louisa deliver a fiery, opinion fueled overview of movies, social movements, cultural behaviors and eating habits - dovetailed with a honey-based recipe and reviews of the most obnoxious movie/media news headlines we can get our eyeballs in front of. For our latest editions, we will be reviewing scripts from the infamous Hollywood 'Black List' (scripts with a ton of 'buzz' that have yet to secure a deal or go into production) - and adding our own casting and story development suggestions.
Critique-Opolis
Latest Episodes
When Your Kryptonite Is An Air Horn
Sound can be wallpaper in a movie, or it can be the whole engine. Tuner lands firmly in the second camp, and we had a lot to say about why it works. We talk through the film’s core hook: Nikki (Leo Woodall) is a piano tuner with hyperacusis and...
Stolen Song, Stolen Spotlight
A wedding singer writes a melody for his newborn daughter, years pass, and then one late-night jam turns that private song into a public smash. The twist: the pop star who helps “finish” it takes it back to Hollywood, the production machine cra...
Shopgirl And The Weight Of Loneliness
He sends her a pair of gloves from her own workplace and somehow that becomes the beginning of everything. We’re talking about Shopgirl (2005), the Steve Martin adaptation that looks like a romance on the surface but lands as a sharp, quiet sto...
We Follow A Studio Executive Until Everything Breaks
A studio executive gets buried under endless pitches, anonymous postcards, and one creeping fear that won’t go away: he’s about to be replaced. Then Robert Altman turns the pressure up until it becomes something much darker. We’re talking about...
What Happens When A Rom-Com Has No Tone
French Lover somehow became a Netflix hit, and we walked in expecting a charming French rom-com with Omar Sy and walked out asking how so many scenes made it past the final draft. We’re not doing a polite “maybe it’s just not for us” review, ei...