Word: elliotã
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...going downhill, hope surfaces again with “ODB, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” one of the most whacked-out love duets in recent memory. ODB howls like a stray dog over Macy Gray’s breathy hook and Damon Elliot??s slick production, delivering lines that no other rapper could successfully spit: after cataloguing, for Macy’s benefit, a number of after-dark outdoor sex acts, ODB suggests that they could, “go to the movies / I don’t care which movie...
Combining Scottish paunch and a harmless “Billy Elliot??-esque storyline, “On a Clear Day” aims to get a few laughs as well as warm the heart...
Unfortunately, the constantly reiterated relationship between Hayes (Evan Parke) the gruff, but heartfelt first mate and Jimmy (Jamie Bell, the “Billy Elliot?? kid) is so bad as to verge on self-parody. Although it allows Jackson to develop the “Heart of Darkness” theme—Jimmy inexplicitly stole a copy from the New York Public Library—it loses the rhythm of the rest of the action. And yet, surprisingly, the film mostly works...
Nonetheless if Showalter overcompensates, he only does it because of his exacting detail. Showalter exquisitely demonstrates Elliot??s desire for companionship just by showing the picture on Elliot??s coffee mug: two cats sitting on a window ledge. Styled after the screwball comedies of the past, the film has an undeniable 1940s vibe, and it lives in Elliot??s tweed coat, navy vest, and plaid newsboy cap. The result is a fresh but nostalgic wide-eyed wonder that leaves you mildly elated...
...Baxter moment. Whether you stayed up all night helping that pretty girl finish her problem set, who then didn’t remember your name the next day, or you tried in vain the catch the eye of that hot guy at last year’s party, Elliot??s story is familar, but well-told enough by Showalter to give everyone hope...