You need to tread a fine line when paying homage to 1980s action movies. Wink too much at the audience and it’ll either feel like you’re striving for cult status or telling the audience they shouldn’t take your film so seriously; play it too straight and you run risk of viewers not realizing you’re in on the highly ridiculous joke. The recent Jason Statham vehicle The Beekeeper is, for me at least, the best recent example of a filmmaker perfecting…
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Drive-Away Dolls 2024
Very obviously written before Burn After Reading, as the entire third act was condensed into a single gag for that. Luckily, funny enough that this doesn’t even matter (has it really been 8 years since the last proper Coens comedy?!?), Bill Camp MVP, where is Drive Away Dolls II: The Legend of Curlie’s Gold