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• Robbie Holmes • Episode 106

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Hey there, folks. Uh, so excited to be back with a quick warner about send help. Uh, expect a few more videos this week. Probably one about Sundance, and then next week about the Independent Spirit Awards. Uh, but it's been busy. I've been watching a lot of movies. So here we go with Send Help. Our friends over at IMDB have this as an employee and her insufferable boss become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. Here they must overcome past grievances and work together to make it out alive. Uh, it was written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, and it is directed by Sam Raimi. Uh, my review over on Letterboxd is uh really fun film. Rachel McAdams is so versatile, and Dylan O'Brien is a great scared crier. Uh I gave it three and a half stars, three stars and a heart. I think uh it is definitely one fun time at the theater. Uh, I think my reasoning for the review that I gave it is it feels a little bit stretched. It is a good movie. I really liked it, but I think there's probably about eight to ten minutes uh that could have been shaved out of this or even a little more. It's it's a premise is exactly what you expect it to be going in. Uh, it's well done, but I do feel like it's there's a slight stretching in the middle to make it to this one hour and 53 minute runtime. Um, so this movie stars Rachel McAdams uh as Linda Little and Dylan O'Brien as Bradley Preston. Uh, because it is a Sam Raimi film. Look for the uh photographic cameo of our friend uh his favorite uh punching bag. And uh yeah, it's super fun. This movie was a blast. I think Rachel McMathams is sort of playing a character who is an overachiever, who's very good at what she does, not sort of the most polished person in her office, super excited about things like Survivor. She's a super literate, really well read on the idea of survival, which is really funny. She's hanging out with her bird at the beginning, and we're watching her watch Survivor, and there's all these books about survival topics. And it's really just laid on for us like, hey man, she's going to be ready to take care of this. And then we meet Dylan O'Brien, who's taking over from his father, uh, as Bradley Preston, as the uh CEO of a company, and he is such a jerk. He just oozes, like, you know, Nepo baby, like completely uh spoiled brat. It's it's really amazing. Uh, but Dylan is so good at this. He is fantastic. His physicality and his screaming and the scared component in his eyes, like all of his facial acting is so good in this. And it's funny, they like really try to make Rachel McAdams not look attractive, like she's frumpy and things like that. That's impossible. Uh yeah, sure, you can try, but uh the movie loses. And eventually, when they're on the island, you get these moments where like her like sun-bleached, like windswept hair, she looks like a you know, a beautiful, like, island woman. She's so unbelievable. Um, yeah, it's a really fun movie. You should see it if you get a chance. It is definitely a movie that will be uh welcomed if you like Sam Raimi films. So it's more in the line of like a drag me to hell. It is sort of a return to that type of film for him. He gets a chance to do all the fun things that you expect from a Sam Raimi film. There's great camera whip pants, there's absolutely like tons and tons of viscera and like, you know, fluids. It it never ends. And I think that's the thing about Sam Raimi films that I really like is you're like, oh my god, I can't believe it. Oh, it's kids still going. Oh God. Uh and it's uh it's funny. It's a groaner for sure, but it's so well done and so funny in the way that it handles things. Uh yeah, golf plays a really important part of this movie. Yeah, if you like uh Sam Raimi films, you should definitely see this. Rachel McAdams is absolutely worthy of carrying the weight of this movie on her shoulders with Dylan O'Brien as a two-hander. I'm really glad that she's getting a chance to lead a film like this. We should be so lucky as to uh get one of these a year. Whether it's a Sam Raimi film like this, whether it is a Rachel McAdams or a Dylan O'Brien. I mean, he's just killing it. His role in Twinless, he is on a heater right now. So uh I'm really excited to have gotten to see this movie in the theater. It's uh very fun. You should see it too. Talk to you soon. Bye bye.

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