I started this post meaning to say that I wanted to extend an olive branch to the movie Sinners, because I rewatched it this past weekend and have kinda been tearing into it on Bluesky because I think it's a fine and fun but not award-worthy movie. But apparently my wires got crossed while staring at these photos of Jack O'Connell because what I ended up typing the first time through this post was that I wanted to extend a "fig leaf" to the movie -- lol. Oh to see Jack in nothing but a fig leaf!
Not that we're at a loss for Jack in even less than that -- hell I saw him take a long, long, long nude shower on stage in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof back in the day. (Long live the theater.) Anyway -- Sinners. It's good! Ocassionally great. Some of its key performances are lacking though, and what it has to say about race feels really muddled by its end to me. And speaking of -- that third act is a mess. Incoherent at times. I mean I love to see a horror movie get praised but I think people are mistaking several magnificent elements for the full picture of the thing. Anyway, whatever. It could be worse -- it could be Weapons getting too much praise! And we're really just here to star at Jack! So hit the jump and do that then...
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All season long i've not been able to get my head round the fact that Jordan,Caton and Lindo have got all the heat for the male actors in the film and O'Connell who makes for one the scariest vampires for some time and makes the thing tense in parts but not one critics group or awards body has singled him out.
Agreed; Jack owned that role and was delightful. I loved his singing as well as the fact he was one of the scariest vampires ever because of the vulnerability he teased.
The true star of "Sinners." Damn shame he ain't being recognized.
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