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Toast of Tinseltown (2022)
Toast travels to retro Hollywood- "Where do I sign up?!" 😜
When I heard Toast was headed to Hollywood, I said to myself, "Where do I sign up?!" 😜
Enjoyable, bizarre, but fun season. One definitely can tell it touches on some of the shady sides of 1960's -70's-esque L. A., but in a fun way. This is evident too in the retro title cards, and even the intro is a spoof on the BBC's 1970's Shadows program intro.
Less over the top, and less songs since TOL moved from Channel 4, and the first two episodes are almost table setting with cameos. The rest become more typical style episodes. All of the supporting cast returns. Different, as it is intended to be, but still classic Matthews/ Berry humor. 👍
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Mike Flanagan and Warner Bros. need to fix the ending
Saw the film. Loved so many things about it, and that Flanagan made his own film, staying true to most of Doctor Sleep, while revisiting the Kubrick film.
However, Flanagan dropped the ball at the very end. Flanagan focused so much on trying to reconcile the ending to The Shining novel, I think he completely lost the ending to Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep is Danny's story, not Jack's. A major theme of the novel is the reconciliation of the bonds of "family." Without spoiling, Danny's fate is necessary for his family's redemption, and should have paralelled Abra's.
I hope they shot an alternate ending. An easy fix, with one reshoot. They could easily have Dan projecting from a hospital bed, and more or less kept the same exact ending with Abra, if that's the closing he or Warner Bros. wanted. This would elevate Doctor Sleep from a mere good film, to a GREAT film.