March 22, 2020 – Kodachrome (2017) Netflix
I fear my Shelter-In-Place Streaming Film Festival is going astray. Here again the desire for comforting, escapist entertainment led us to watch another mediocre film. It sounded good on paper. A father (Ed Harris), his nurse (Elizabeth Olson) and his estranged son (Jason Sudekis) set out on a cross-country journey to the last place in the country that develops Kodachrome film days before it is going to close. The cast is good, and the script is by Jonathan Tropper, writer of several novels I have loved and showrunner of the great Cinemax show Banshee. Yet somehow it all went wrong. I didn’t care a bit about any of the characters, and the long road trip leads nowhere, at least nowhere I didn’t predict way in advance. Henry wisely skipped this one to watch Christopher Nolen’s Inception online with friends. You should skip this movie too. Maybe listen to the Paul Simon song instead.