Booksmart

He's my favorite in Gemstones as Gideon.

But Booksmart, I laughed my butt off at him in Booksmart in 2019.

My gosh.

All right, I'll grade this one out.

This is a really strange little film.

It shares a little bit of DNA with films like Booksmart and Eighth Grade, where they look at kind of young female friendships and the dynamics within that as well.

But it's also got this really interesting through line about the British class system.

And they often refer to different characters as being on a scholarship or one particular older girl in the school who is obviously from a working class background and who is sexually active.

It's...

Cool because he's been an actor I think all of us have liked for quite a bit, whether it's Booksmart or Righteous Gemstones or Looker's Pizza.

The Bill Engvall show with Jennifer Lawrence.

He's been working, which is also another interesting facet of it.

good

evening ladies and gentlemen ladies and gays this is the real pineapple this is your humble host toner here hope you're having a good night hope you're safe i hope you're well i've got a review for the invite which is the uh third uh directorial offering from olivia wilde uh so she is At this point is one for two, I will say, because she directed, of course, Booksmart, which was, I think, number five that year for me on my best of list.

I think Booksmart is a fucking classic.

I know some people don't want to hear this, but it's the truth.

It's better than Superbad.

And I've got to give Skylar Gazzondo a shout out as Dan Plum or Decoy Dan because he is fantastic.

I've seen him majority in comedy roles, like Booksmart was probably my first introduction to him and he's been in obviously a few TV shows, but yeah.

He's really, really great.

It's a kind of a new dramatic role in a sense, but you know, you watch his character, obviously slowly realize what he's in is really, really messed up.

It doesn't kind of try and be...

Am I right in thinking it came out around a similar time as Booksmart?

That's what put me off it.

They kind of got

dual conversations, didn't they? Booksmart, the problem is, when you watch Booksmart, you can watch it and go, I think that that person's going to be a good director.

I hate that movie.

Whereas Ladybug was just a good film.