Don't Look Up [DVD]

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Added into the cast are Jonah Hill as Streep’s son and Chief Of Staff, Jason… who’s also a massive prick; Ariana Grande pops up as self-entitled pop star Riley Bina, Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry are insipid breakfast TV presenters Brie and Jack, Rob Morgan‘s Dr. With only six months until the comet strikes, how can they convince a 24-hour news cycle just trying to gain an audience and get the attention of the social media-obsessed public before it’s too late? But with its depictions of a society obsessed with image, mobile phones and where people will believe anything despite clear evidence to the contrary. While filming in Transylvania, a crew unearths celluloid images of a woman’s murder and unleashes the wrath of evil spirits.

The film is meant to serve as a metaphor of climate change, though could also be about public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s never not obvious what points McKay is trying to make. The humour is often broad, and, unhinged from telling a true story like Vice or The Big Short, McKay’s sociopolitical commentary feels heavy-handed. Everything starts off normal for our main character as he heads into work for a combat sports promotions company.Known as the dinosaur killer, the asteroid left a crater estimated to be 150 kilometers (93 miles) in diameter and 20 kilometers (12 miles) in depth. In Don’t Look Up, while the scientists are trying to get the facts out there about what’s trying to happen – and how everyone’s lives are in danger, the bigwigs are more interested in finding a way to turn it into a way to make rich people even richer.

Available only to view on Netflix at the moment but hopefully a HD physical release will come down the line. I must admit i am not a fan of director Adam McKay’s previous comedy movies such as Anchorman and Step Brothers so went into this new film showing on Netflix with some trepidation.Adam McKay is a director who has gone from making off the wall comedies like Anchorman, Talladega Nights and Step Brothers to Oscar-winning prestige pictures like the financial satire The Big Short (which was genuinely very good) and the Dick Cheney biopic Vice (which was uneven but still mostly enjoyable). When a man is beaten to death in a park in broad daylight, and the footage is caught on camera, the bystanders undergo major scrutiny as to why they did not intervene. Meanwhile, as the witnesses begin to suffer tragedy in their own lives something more sinister may be at play, and Caitlin is determined to find out what before it's too late. The man can’t contact anyone in his family, and, as he drives into work the sky literally falls around him.