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Monthly Archives: September 2016

Deepwater Horizon (2016)

September 30, 2016by lsbushey 3 Comments

“Never hurts to run a test.” Deepwater Horizon starts with a bang. Not literally – plenty of those are saved for later. The screen is black as we listen to real […]

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Action, Drama, Thriller

Sing Street (2016)

September 29, 2016by lsbushey 2 Comments

“You can never do anything by half.” Sing Street is a movie for music fans, for lovers of defiant romance, and for the displaced teens lining the walls of middle schools the […]

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Comedy, Drama, Musical

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

September 26, 2016by lsbushey Leave a comment

“It won’t sweeten. It’ll only sour” Do yourself a favor and see Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece Seven Samurai or even John Sturges’ modest 1960 feature rather than heading out to the cinema for Antoine […]

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Action, Western

Blair Witch (2016)

September 22, 2016by lsbushey Leave a comment

“We faked it because it’s real.” If somebody was to ask me to describe Blair Witch, I’d say that it’s the type I normally liken to gridlock traffic. All stop […]

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Horror, Thriller

Hell or High Water (2016)

September 19, 2016by lsbushey 1 Comment

“You got some spunk left in you.” The term dime novel is often used in a negative context to describe indulgent, hurried material. Hell or High Water looks that way on the […]

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Crime, Drama

Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)

September 16, 2016by lsbushey 1 Comment

“How in the hell did I end up here again?” Once you look past the egregious typo in the title and the intermittent phoniness of Bridget Jones’s Diary (it literally pains […]

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Comedy, Drama, Romance

Morgan (2016)

September 14, 2016by lsbushey Leave a comment

“Morgan is no longer viable.” How to describe Morgan? I could say any number of things. Flippantly shallow, hysterically self-serious, a distasteful mix of pea-brained and moronic ideas. And that’s just the […]

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Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Morris from America (2016)

September 12, 2016by lsbushey 1 Comment

“I just don’t have anything to prove to these people.” The biggest issue with the “fish out of water” framing device is that the stories generally feel off and combative, focusing […]

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Comedy, Drama, Romance

Sully (2016)

September 10, 2016by lsbushey 3 Comments

“You can accomplish anything if you’re never in a hurry.” I genuinely fear for the future of biopic cinema, especially when they’re now made so soon after the actual incident that […]

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Biopic, Drama

The Light Between Oceans (2016)

September 8, 2016by lsbushey 1 Comment

“We’re not doing anything wrong.” One of The Light Between Ocean’s most important shots lasts so briefly that you’d miss it if you blinked. Michael Fassbender, as dedicated and doggedly motivated as ever, […]

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Drama, Romance

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