About Time ⌚️ | a movie to fall in love to over and over
Happy Thanksgiving Eve! Today’s newsletter is early because this time tomorrow I’ll be immobilized by the full apple pie that I ate on the floor like Rooney Mara in A Ghost Story and I hope you’re doing the same. Thankful for you all ❤️.
Today’s recommendation: About Time ⌚️
Today’s movie is rom-com connoisseur Richard Curtis’ underseen About Time starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, and Bill Nighy. Here’s what it’s about:
Tim (Gleeson), a hopeless romantic—emphasis on the hopeless, gets a new lease on life when his father (Nighy) reveals an old family secret. All the men in the family have the ability to travel back in time. Naturally, Tim uses his new found ability to try to get a girlfriend. Instead, he learns that love isn’t as simple as just doing all the right things. [Trailer]
▶︎ Streaming on Netflix. Buy or rent on Amazon, Apple TV, or YouTube.
Why you should watch it: Within the first ten minutes of About Time you know everything you need to know about the characters, their motivations, and, of course, the time travelling—which is blessedly not complicated. And really, for a movie about time travel, it’s really not a sci-fi at all.
With his patented English dry wit bringing flashes of deadpan humor, Richard Curtis—with an assist from Gleeson and McAdams’ devastatingly charming performances—has constructed an entertaining and subversive romantic comedy that is less about finding love and more about what it’s like to be in love. Yes, it’s cheesy as all hell and doesn’t make complete sense at times, but at its core it’s a warm hug of a movie that tells you to not overthink it. Life unfolds the way you need it to in its own time.
🍷 Pair it with: Palm Springs, Moonstruck
One trailer to watch: One Night in Miami 🥊
We’ve been seriously deprived of Oscar contenders this year, but One Night in Miami has completely changed the game. Amazon Studios will be releasing the film on Prime Video on January 15, 2021.
The movie is directed by Oscar-winning actor Regina King in her directorial debut (If Beale Street Could Talk, Watchmen). Here’s the premise:
One Night in Miami is a fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree), Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), and Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) gathered discussing their roles in the civil rights movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend!
See you Monday —
Karl