52 Films by Women Vol 3. 24. BLOCKERS (Director: Kay Cannon)
Not all parents want to interfere with their children’s sex lives. That’s why they give them sweaters. But parents can voice their disapproval of a potential suitor. He or she might not be ‘good enough’. Alternatively, the parent might have an in-built prejudice that surfaces at dinner and manifests itself by placing the suitor under hypnosis in order to perform surgery. About that plot flaw in Get Out - did that film really deserve the Best Screenplay Oscar? If you are part of a nasty conspiracy and you place that nice young man that your daughter is dating into a trance, you aren’t going to give him time to figure out what you are up to – you are gonna get right to it. However, this isn’t a retrospective whinge about why Lady Bird was robbed at the 2018 Oscar ceremony by a so-called ‘smart’ horror film (reader, Gerwig was held up at gub point). This is about a modest box office success called Blockers directed but not written by Kay Cannon. Blockers has a script by a ...