Indie Film Release Guide: October 6th [An ONTD Original]

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Of this week's releases, I've already seen The Royal Hotel (pretty good, recommend) and Foe (terrible, do NOT recommend!! in fact, pretend it doesn't exist).

Definitely interested in seeing Dicks: The Musical ASAP. I was gonna go Saturday, but with the Phillies playoff game, I might have to reschedule. I also want to watch Totally Killer at some point, it looks fun!

Looking forward to seeing All of Us Strangers on Friday, I cannot fucking wait.

Also booked out my AFI Fest schedule. I've got 13 films on the agenda so far, and I am still waiting for them to announce what films Greta Gerwig is programming as the guest artistic director!!

[oncourt]

Foe (terrible, do NOT recommend!! in fact, pretend it doesn't exist).

Wait, what? Noooo

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Yeah, sorry to say, but it is easily the worst movie I've seen this year. I'll c/p my Letterboxd review - it's not spoilery, but long so I will stick it under a cut.

[Spoiler (click to open)]I truly do not know where to begin... what the hell happened here?!? Two of the most talented young actors I can think of in a movie I've been looking forward to since it was announced, and I can't imagine I'll ever watch again or recommend it to a single person

[oncourt]

My God, I can't believe this. I mean, a movie can easily be bad, but bad at this level is almost an achievement given that it has such good actors as protagonists. What a shame :(

[miwa201]

i feel like saoirse has some big highs in her filmography but also some notorious lows. i'm hoping blitz will be good

[flirflir]

Yikes, this is too bad. I've been seeing nothing but bad reviews about it

[theharleyquinn]

agree with everything. this movie would make you think Paul is a bad actor

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Sad, but true. And this is maybe the least of its problems, but idk why the fuck couldn't have just set it in Ireland?! The movie would have still had a million issues, obviously, but Paul and Sirsh would not have had to fuck around with struggle American accents. Least convincing Midwesterners on the planet, lol.

[theharleyquinn]

lol the American setting was so unnecessary. first of all, it's obvious that the movie was filmed in Australia and its take on the Midwest was completely half-assed and irrelevant to the plot. I couldn't make sense of Aaron Pierre using his English accent but Paul and Saoirse attempting American ones.

[la_petite_singe]

nooooo I'm so sad about Foe. Should I just skip it and just go for Dicks The Musical instead? (I gotta see something Sunday afternoon, no point going home between my two NYFF screenings lol) I'm using A-List, so it's not like I'm wasting $$$, but would you say it's not even worth it for the FOMO?

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I haven't seen D:TM yet, so I can't say for sure, but I could not in good conscience recommend Foe to anyone. Paul is naked a lot, so it has that going for it, but that's basically it and I wish I was joking. Maybe watch it (on drugs, preferably) when it's streaming in a couple months? lol

[la_petite_singe]

lol, OK, you've convinced me. I appreciate the PSA. 😄

[euraylie]

I’m so sad that Foe is apparently a very subpar Black Mirror episode. My bf loved the book and was looking forward to the movie. Ah well.

[ginainabottle]

So sad to hear about Foe, I'm currently reading the book and enjoying it a lot, and the atmosphere of the trailer looked so on point :(

[hateistoodark]

Im so bummed For sucked :( I don’t know if I can watch it