HWD Daily – Capone Can’t Save Us
Capone Can’t Save Us
Alas, Josh Trank’s Capone is not entertaining enough to break you out of your lockdown-induced malaise. But Richard Lawson’s review of the film—which stars an all-in Tom Hardy as the notorious gangster—just might be. True, Capone has some amount of pedigree: “From some angles, the movie’s profile is significantly higher than a lot of the other stuff made available on demand during the outbreak, and in fact the film has been spoken about—largely sight unseen, I’m assuming—as one of this warped year’s potential outsider Oscar contenders,” he writes. But that doesn’t make the movie worthwhile as anything greater than a curiosity. “Much as I’ve scrunched my eyes tight and squeezed my crystal, I cannot see the future—but it would be a sign of a truly, truly broken year if this hideous indulgence of a film gained any of that kind of traction.”
Elsewhere in HWD, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock break down their Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt interactive special, now streaming; Tara Ariano recommends the best music movies to watch if you’ve been missing concerts; Yohana Desta dissects a truly chaotic Robert Pattinson interview; and Kenzie Bryant gives a close reading of Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas’s new friendship necklaces.
Aw, Shoot
Tom Hardy, a go-for-broke actor, mostly breaks Capone, Josh Trank’s snoozer about Al’s last days.
She’s Alive, Damnit!
Tina Fey and Robert Carlock on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, a choose-your-own-adventure special that marks a glorious return to form.
Tune In
Most summer concerts and festivals are postponed, which might have left a music-shaped hole in your heart. Thankfully, there is plenty of content available to stream to bring some live-music magic back into your life.
He Did What?!
“How do you make a pasta which you can hold in your hand?” Robert Pattinson asks in a chaotic GQ cover story.
Matchy-Matchy
How to shelter-in-place with the other half of one’s heart, according to Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas.
