Z for Zachariah (2015)
“It’s just crazy this is still here.” Z for Zachariah is a lesson, both good and bad, in the importance of brevity. Its shot choices early on are inspiring, relying on […]
“It’s just crazy this is still here.” Z for Zachariah is a lesson, both good and bad, in the importance of brevity. Its shot choices early on are inspiring, relying on […]
“Welcome to the third world.” No Escape is the funniest movie of the summer of 2015. And it’s not a comedy. How can you not laugh at this blatantly condescending, offensively […]
“I am spooky quiet.” *= terrible pot puns/references meant to make a dreary review on a lousy film a little more bearable. Enjoy. Let’s just get this out there to start; American […]
“There was something truthful about having my own life again.” The simplest way you can describe Joe Swanberg’s career as is prolific. In the same breath, the most complex way […]
“The history of man is defined by war.” It sure as hell is hard to have fun during an action movie when the film itself is shackled to the deepest […]
“Life sucks because my wife left me for an off broadway monologuist.” Anymore, it seems impossible to find a good romantic comedy. Too often do they careen into the territory of […]
“Look me in the eye, and tell me.” Here’s a scenario for you: Game 7 of the World Series, bottom of the ninth, full count, go ahead run on third. […]
“Not very good at this whole subtlety thing, are you?” The shortest way I could think to describe The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was the phrase “aggressively harmless.” Which, if you couldn’t tell, […]
“Speak a little truth and people lose their minds.” Straight Outta Compton is a good bad movie, an attempted thinkpiece that would prefer if you just close your mind off altogether. […]
“Loving people doesn’t save them.” Mommy is the first film I have seen that manipulates the frame in service of the story, only ever so briefly. For almost its entirety, the […]