Don't Look Up [DVD]

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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 US administration is portrayed as a Trumpian band of self serving fools but as dangerous to the very future of humanity. Back to the present and the discredited medium director Marcus Reed and his producer Josh Petri head to Romania to make a film about Matya's story. Tagged with Adam McKay, Ariana Grande, Cate Blanchett, David Sirota, Don't Look Up, Erik Parillo, Hettienne Park, Himesh Patel, Jack Alberts, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Kevin J.

This is her first starring role after a bit of a hiatus, and her character is very thinly written, with the film not giving her that much to do from a performance standpoint. There’s Meryl Streep as the Trump-like President Orlean and Jonah Hill as her inept son and chief of staff; Mark Rylance as eccentric tech billionaire Peter Isherwall, who is like a cross between Jobs, Musk and Gates; and Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry as Brie Evantee and Jack Bremmer, the plasticy hosts of a popular morning talk show. It’s a little too long and the ending was a little odd, but it will certainly make you think between the laughs.

The man can’t contact anyone in his family, and, as he drives into work the sky literally falls around him.

Rylance is almost eerily good as a quirky billionaire operating with an empathy deficit, and he delivers a chilling monologue partway through. An excellent satire that most mainstream media and critics hated, perhaps it hit home a bit too hard. It goes all the way up the ladder to the president of the United States (Meryl Streep) but she seems more concerned with the upcoming election and after appearing on a popular talk show the two find that no-one will take the discovery seriously even if a comet the size of Mount Everest is a planet killer.Available only to view on Netflix at the moment but hopefully a HD physical release will come down the line.