Road Trips III: The End of the Tour 🎧 & Locke 📞
Plus, a rundown of the trailers you should see this week
🌈 Happy Friday! Great to see you again.
We’ve gone to Finland and New York so far for our road trip movies 🚘 series. Let’s finish it off with a double feature and venture to Illinois and Birmingham, England. Plus, I give you a rundown of the new trailers you should watch.
Okay, here’s day 3️⃣.
Movie #1: The End of the Tour
STREAMING ON NETFLIX
What it’s about: Right after the publication of his groundbreaking novel Infinite Jest and at the end of his book publicity tour, author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) is interviewed over five days by Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg).
Why you should watch it: Director James Ponsoldt has a knack for portraying real-life as it is while mining it for the magic it could behold. That’s why The End of the Tour is so fascinating. It’s just a conversation — a conversation you don’t want to end. It’s as funny and charming as it is profound and existential. The “road trip” never really goes anywhere, just like the plot. It’s a meditation on being human told through two humans learning about each other. Jesse Eisenberg never really delivered on the promise he showed in The Social Network, but he gets pretty damn close in The End of the Tour. Don’t believe me? Believe Guillermo Del Toro:
Details: 🎬 James Ponsoldt // ⏳ 106 minutes // 🗓 2015 // 📺 Trailer
Fun fact: “The Big Ship” by Brian Eno, which plays over the end credits, was one of David Foster Wallace’s favorite songs.
Also available on: Prime Video | iTunes | YouTube
Movie #2: Locke
STREAMING ON NETFLIX
What it’s about: Locke is told in real-time through 36 different phone calls that Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) makes — with his boss (Ben Daniels), a colleague (Andrew Scott), his wife Katrina (Ruth Wilson), sons (Tom Holland and Bill Milner), and others — as he drives from Birmingham to London to get to his mistress (Olivia Colman) who just went into labor (labour?).
Why you should watch it: Ivan is the only character that appears on the screen during the entire running time. Every other character we only hear through his calls with them. However, Locke is much more than its gimmick. It’s truly a modern Shakesperean tragedy and Hardy is Macbeth or Hamlet or any number of difficult men we’ve seen struggle with their own pride. And even if it’s just one person in a car for 85 minutes, it’s always compelling and sometimes even thrilling. Concrete has never been so interesting.
Details: 🎬 Steven Knight // ⏳ 85 minutes // 🗓 2014 // 📺 Trailer
Fun fact: All the calls Ivan makes in the movie are real with Hardy in a car and the other actors in a hotel room talking to him on the phone.
Also available on: Prime Video | iTunes | YouTube
3️⃣ trailers you should watch
Antebellum: Successful author Veronica (Janelle Monaé) finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Antebellum@antebellumfilm#Antebellum - April 24, 20203:00 PM · Nov 21, 2019155 Reposts · 229 Likes
Emma: Based on the classic Jane Austen novel. Beautiful, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy) is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. She must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
EMMA.@emmamovieHandsome, clever, and rich. #EMMA. 💋 In theaters February 2020.g3:00 PM · Nov 21, 20191.82K Reposts · 8.81K Likes
Cats: I’m sorry, but I had to. It’s about cats… with human bodies… that dance.
CATS@catsmovieLet's do this. 🐱✨14:00 PM · Nov 19, 201910.7K Reposts · 36.9K Likes
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Have a great weekend!
Karl (@karl_delo)