The Holdovers This comedy-drama reteams director Alexander Payne with his Sideways star Paul Giamatti in the story of an embittered teacher at a boarding school forced to supervise students who stay on campus over Christmas break. Glen Weldonĭominic Sessa as Angus Tully and Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb in The Holdovers. Look, Lana Turner was discovered at a drugstore. Dear David dramatizes a Twitter thread (no, seriously) that Ellis wrote in 2017, while he was still working at BuzzFeed, about encountering the ghost of a small boy in his apartment. Few of us expected it to happen this way, though. Bilal Qureshiĭear David Those of us who love web comic author Adam Ellis' funny, creepy, sexy queer work have always expected him to break into the mainstream. A hit at this year's Sundance, it's about a queer young woman and her Iranian mother, told through dance numbers, pop songs, sex, comedy and palpable heart. Now I can't wait for filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz's big-screen Persian Version of that classic coming-of-self story. The Persian Version Immigrant angst and intergenerational collisions have always been at the heart of American cinema, and in recent years there have been even more specific and nuanced portrayals - from Hulu's Ramy to Netflix's Beef. Niousha Noor as Shirin in The Persian Version. Small investors kept buying, making millions as the hedge funds lost billions. Hedge funds (Seth Rogen is their chief fall guy) saw them as amateurs ("dumb money") and bet against the stock, assuming that it would fall. Bob Mondelloĭumb Money In Craig Gillespie's reality-based comedy, Paul Dano plays a guy with a Reddit page who went up against big hedge funds in 2021 in what became known as the "GameStop short squeeze." The Reddit page recommended GameStop stock and its followers bought it. Bernal is engaging, sexy and charismatic in the ring, and director Roger Ross Williams makes sure you hear the anti-gay slurs turn into cheers for the little guy. Someone suggests that he try being an "exotico" (a fey wrestling caricature), but they always lose, and he wants to win. I've got a pair of increasingly exasperated feet to placate.Cassandro Gael García Bernal is the titular real-life, gay luchador (wrestler) dreaming of being something other than the runt who gets smashed by the big guy. You've got a dazzlingly varied, relentlessly entertaining rally celebration to buy. When you're haring towards a hairpin at 100mph or more, it's not particularly helpful to hear, “Easy left – opens” from the passenger seat.īut enough nitpicking. The current batch can be a little overeager when it comes to pace notes. Some smarter co-drivers wouldn't have gone amiss, either. However, a few more catastrophe cues would have been useful. The cars handle intuitively, though, especially when you've tweaked things such as brake bias and gear ratios to suit your driving style. If you're a SimBin veteran, you're likely to find the lack of audio feedback from tyres, transmissions and brakes mildly perturbing. I just wish the rides were a tad more talkative. Tearing along the game's forest tracks in vintage Ford Escorts, Opel Mantas and Audi Quattros is as delightful as it is horribly dangerous. Talking of ageing technology, the 50-strong vehicle selection includes a range of '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s machines that are sure to please the generation of gamers taught road safety by huge squirrels and crappy superheroes.
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