Mina discovers a minicamera in the showerhead and alerts Charlie. It’s a heartening idea, but it could be sharper. He attempts to call the police himself; Mina tries to stop him.
The Rental is a 2020 American horror film produced and directed by Dave Franco, in his directorial debut.
"[15] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". More than once you may scoff at the reckless foolishness of the central foursome as they descend into the truthers’ lair; it’s a bit like watching horror-movie protagonists in a picture that ultimately has no real interest in being a horror movie. After election 2020: How can artists help mend our cultural divide? Film Review: The Rental (2020): Mumbled Mid-Thirties Malaise Does Not a Lean Slasher Make, 09 October 2020 Michaela Watkins, left, Jillian Bell, Jon Bass and Marc Maron in the movie “Sword of Trust.”.
Soundtrack. All four of them try to do the same with Hog. Mina tells everyone about the hidden camera in the shower. Biden urged patience, while Trump called the election into question. If Shelton and Maron feel particularly in sync, it may be because they’ve collaborated often; she’s been a guest on his popular podcast, “WTF,” and previously directed him in comedy specials and shows including the Netflix series “GLOW.” Maron does beautifully shaded character work here as a man with deep reserves of life knowledge and a tetchy know-it-all streak to go with it.
Franco co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Swanberg, based on a story by the pair and Mike Demski. ‘Halt And Catch Fire’ & ‘Dickinson’ Star Toby Huss Joins Joe Carnahan Action-Thriller ‘CopShop’, 13 October 2020 [16], Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, Richard Roeper gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying: "The Rental would have worked purely as a compelling character study about four dysfunctional adults unraveling over the course of a long weekend — but when the presence of a homicidal maniac is introduced to the proceedings, the transition to horror film is brilliant and wacky and pretty darn great. The film was released on video-on-demand and in select theaters in the United States on July 24, 2020, by IFC Films.
‘If he’s in heaven, I hope they have golf courses,’ Harrison Ford wrote in a tribute to Sean Connery, who played his father in an ‘Indiana Jones’ film. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and became the second film to ever top VOD charts and the box office in the same weekend.
| [9], The film made an estimated $130,000 from 251 theaters in its first day, and $420,871 over the weekend, topping the box office.
Whether Trump or Biden wins, difficult repair works lies ahead after election 2020. [4] Franco, Elizabeth Haggard, Ben Stillman, Teddy Schwarzman, Swanberg, Christopher Storer served as producers on the film, under their Ramona Films and Black Bear Pictures banners, respectively, while Michael Heimler and Sean Durkin acted as executive producers. Get the Indie Focus newsletter, Mark Olsen's weekly guide to the world of cinema. In March 2019, it was announced Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, Sheila Vand and Jeremy Allen White had joined the cast of the film, with Dave Franco directing from a screenplay he wrote alongside Joe Swanberg. The two couples arrive at the house, meeting Taylor (Toby Huss), the slightly menacing, probably racist middle-aged man who oversees the property. Eddie Hassell, known for his roles in the NBC show ‘Surface’ and the film “The Kids Are All Right,” has died after a shooting in Texas, police said. They take it to a Birmingham pawnshop run by Mel (Marc Maron), who listens with growing skepticism as the two women rattle off the sword’s strange backstory: According to some sketchy accompanying documents, it’s a Union Army blade that was surrendered to Confederate forces after a fateful battle, and thus offers proof that the South actually won the Civil War. Charlie gets a text from Michelle's phone and goes to search for her. California’s November election will feature 12 statewide ballot measures. Marshalltown, Iowa, USA, 23 October 2020 Your guide to the 2020 election in California.
That said, most of it is skillful and engrossing enough to establish Franco as a director to watch. Instead, the masked man ambushes and kills Josh. Back at the rental, Mina and Josh are looking for the shower camera's transceiver to destroy any footage it recorded.
Can we bridge our cultural divide? Toby Huss was born on December 9, 1966 in Marshalltown, Iowa, USA. Before long the four of them are negotiating with a guy named Hog Jaws (Toby Huss) and tumbling down a rabbit hole of white-supremacist intrigue, driven by greed but also by a … Writer | Film-Book The next morning, a hungover Mina and Charlie agree they can never be intimate again, while Josh mentions to Michelle that Charlie has cheated on several former girlfriends, making Michelle doubt Charlie. The body falls onto an outcrop, forcing Josh to go down and push it into the sea. [10] It also was the top-rented film on Apple TV, the iTunes Store and other streaming services, becoming just the second film to ever top both the box office and rental charts. Filmmaker Phillip Youmans’ “November” transforms Claudia Rankine’s play “Help” into a haunting “choreopoem” on white privilege. At times the movie seems content to substitute bumbling comedy for deeper insight, and its prodding at politics doesn’t have enough follow-through: The characters seem to understand on a theoretical level that they’re dealing with people armed with guns and hate, but what that might actually mean (Mel says “We’re gonna die!” a few times, always a little sarcastically) seems to elude them, as does any sense of their own responsibility in potentially fanning the flames of racist ideology.
But all defensiveness melts away in his finest scene, which takes place inside a heavily insulated moving van carrying Mel and his friends to an uncertain destination — a potential trap that becomes an unexpected zone of discovery.
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Most who watch The Rental, which is available on VOD starting Friday, will know going in that it’s a horror movie, but this is a particularly slow-burn one.
He is an actor and writer, known... Born: December 9, 1966 How to vote. 1966 Weapons are brandished but rarely deployed in Lynn Shelton’s “Sword of Trust,” a smart, politically barbed comedy about truthiness and consequences. When the others return and find Taylor dead, they assume that Josh has accidentally killed him. Where to vote. Charlie stops her from alerting the police, reasoning that doing so would mean that in the police inquiry, Michelle and Josh would see the footage of them having sex. Review: ‘The Informer’ is caught between the devil, the deep blue sea and something else, Joel Kinnaman hopes not all snitches wind up in ditches in the crime drama “The Informer.”, Review: Max Winkler’s boxing road movie ‘Jungleland’ packs a punch, Charlie Hunnam stars as a slick-talking antihero in Max Winkler’s boxing road movie “Jungleland.”, Review: A determined Diane Lane and a campy Lesley Manville elevate ‘Let Him Go’. At one point the director gets in on the act, turning up in a brief, vivid role as Deirdre, an old flame of Mel’s who tries to hit him up for cash. [12] It also remained in the top 10 at the iTunes Store, Apple TV, and Spectrum's rental charts. When the other three return, they find her leaving; Charlie tries to stop her, and she tells him she saw the film and leaves. Endorsement: The Times endorses Hoffman, Anderson, Henderson and Han for LACCD.