The Runner (🌟) is so bad, I thought about shutting down this entire account. I literally took a walk around the block alone & questioned whether I should even keep this entire operation going - that’s how utterly awful this film was on every level imaginable. You guys remember Ice Cube’s movie War of the Worlds last year? The Runner makes War of the Worlds look like The Godfather. And I don’t want to hear a damn word from anyone in my comments suggesting I’m being overly dramatic about how bad this film is when all I ever hear from you people is that I give every film a positive rating. You want an example of a film I despise? Here you go. The Runner is unquestionably one of the worst films I’ve seen since I started Cinema Tweets.  Before going any further, I want to extinguish anyone who thinks that anything I’m about to say about Gal Gadot is politically charged. From the inception of this account, I have always - always -consistently focused on the performance art hand. Whether it be Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Majors, Brad Pitt - whomever you want to pick - my position as always been to focus on the art before me. I leave it to others to get political. All of which is to say that nothing I’m about to say about Gal Gadot has anything to do with her political or world views. I don’t want to hear a single person say “Oh Mr. Tweets, what gives?” or “Oh CT, you’re going after Gadot for personal reasons”. Stop. Immediately. Right now. I’m here to talk about the film & performance I just saw.  With that said? Dog shit. Insurmountable, unimaginable, unthinkable dog shit. Dog shit from director Kevin MacDonald. Dog shit form writer Mark Gibson. Dog shit from co-lead Damian Lewis. And above all, sheer, unadulterated dog shit falling from the sky from Gal Gadot. Just the only two words that come to mind as the end credits pierce my body: dog shit. The idea here is that Gadot plays London-based, high-powered attorney Maria Marten. Marten is out for a run one afternoon after dropping her kid off at school and recounts a horrifying phone call from a mysterious caller (Damian Lewis). The focal point here is that Lewis claims he’s holding Noah hostage and will continue to fuck with Noah’s blood sugar levels because Noah is diabetic. The whole crux is that Gadot has to run across the city within an hour to a hotel and murder a key witness who is supposed to testify against Lewis.  I can’t simply put everything on Gadot here - she’s not given any help by the story or direction here. The story is flatly stupid. It’s like all the worst parts of Phone Booth mixed in with some of the shittiest direction I’ve ever seen. Half the film is Gadot staring at her phone screen or staring off into the abyss wondering what’s going on with her son while strangers look at her like she’s an alien. The story is also incredibly stupid in the sense that Gadot’s character never really verifies whether Noah is actually kidnapped and with the Caller. There are countless, mindless plot holes that make it impossible to ignore the story’s stupidity. All of which is tied into awful filmmaking that feels AI-based. None of the shots of London feel real. Hell, none of the shots of Gadot feel real.  But Gadot is nowhere near absolved of guilt. In the hands of a more interesting, more charismatic actor, there’s a chance The Runner might’ve made some sense. But Gadot is just so unbelievably bad, it actually pissed me off. Countless times throughout the film I found myself literally angry at how fucking annoying every last word out of Gadot’s mouth was - it’s just none stop whining? Her line delivery was atrocious and her physicality was absurd - it’s like this is a human who’s never ran before in her life, let alone cried or felt anxiety. It’s truly some of the shittiest acting I’ve ever had the displeasure of sitting through.  I know what some of you are thinking - is The Runner so bad, it’s good? Is it so bad it’s at the point of parody/entertainment still? Hell no.

The new trailer for the ‘HARRY POTTER’ series has been released. Releasing December 25 on HBO.

Indie August. My adventure with the wheel has ended. Now time to read some indies. @JamesDmichael

This is so true. Being a book addict has some downfalls🤣

New article over on the Stack! Seems like a timely entry based on some of the content circling around as of the last couple days. So here is my take.