so isolation is fun, right?
where i live, we've been in a lockdown for just over a week now. only places open are essential services like supermarkets, pharmacies and hospitals. been watching a lot of movies though and thought i'd recommend you some if you're looking for something to watch.
there's a lot of newer releases on here with a few older releases mixed in.
ISI & OSSI (2020)
Came across this movie randomly on Netflix and ended up actually quite enjoying it. It's a German romantic comedy about a billionaire's daughter Isi who has dreams of becoming a chef and a struggling boxer Ossi who pretend to date so Isi can provoke her parents into funding her dreams and in return, she promises to help finance Ossi's first boxing match. In typical fake dating fashion, they fall for each other. The film has a cute style about it and I recommend it as a good interpretation of the fake dating trope. (Trailer above doesn't have English subtitles but wanted to include it anyway).
HONEY BOY (2019)
If I had it my way, this movie would have gotten some Oscar nods this year. It's a film about a child actor's tough relationship with his father and is split between his childhood and early adult years. Written and starring Shia LaBeouf, this film deals with it's subject matter really well and is written like a sort of therapy for LaBeouf, who plays his own father (LaBeouf actually wrote this movie in rehab, where he had been arrested for public intoxication while filming another film on this list The Peanut Butter Falcon). Noah Jupe is fantastic as the younger version and Lucas Hedges plays him in his adult years. The film is directed by Alma Har'el, who should have been up for Best Director (along with Greta Gerwig).
TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL (2010)
As someone who has developed a love for the horror genre as of lately, this is a fun movie that pokes fun at some of the typical tropes in those movies. Tucker and Dale are two good-natured, hillbilly best friends just wanting to go on vacation when a group of college students mistake them for murderers. It's actually a lot funner than I thought it would be and I'd consider it to be an underrated film of the genre.
BOOKSMART (2019)
Favourite movie of last year, hands down. I saw it three times within a small span of time (once in cinemas, twice when showing friends) and it's just a really smartly written comedy, similar to teen films like Superbad (funnily enough, this stars Beanie Feldstein, the younger sister of Superbad star Jonah Hill). In the directorial debut of Olivia Wilde, two best friends who have spent their entire time at high school striving for academic excellence find out that all their classmates who partied and had fun also got into the top colleges so they decide to have one last night of fun, doing the stuff they didn't do throughout high school. The two leads (Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever) are great and so is the entire supporting cast (including Billie Loud, who is quite possibly the funniest character in the movie).
