Good Time (2017)
“This place where you are now can be a lot of fun if you let it. You’re going to have a good time.” Not since last year’s incredibly moving and […]
Monthly Archives: August 2017
The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)
“Why are we always yelling?“ The Hitman’s Bodyguard is deafening, delirious, and a handful of dumb fun all at once. There’s really not much to the film to even assess from […]
Brigsby Bear (2017)
“We have dreams and imaginations to help us escape.” As a child – and now as a grown man – an unhealthy amount of my leisure life has looked like […]
Detroit (2017)
“I’m as real as real can get.” Police brutality has long been a touchy subject in cinema and culture. How do you condemn the worst without offending the rest of […]
Logan Lucky (2017)
“You Logan’s must be as simple-minded as people say.” It makes sense that I haven’t come across another film quite like Logan Lucky since I first saw Ocean’s 11. That film, the magnum […]
The Dark Tower (2017)
“So, when’s the Apocalypse coming?” Let me be as clear as I can: The Dark Tower is, I can only assume since I haven’t read the novels, a despicable adaptation of the […]
Annabelle: Creation (2017)
“Forgive me Father, for I’m about to sin.” There’s no question that director David F. Sandberg knows what the hell he is doing. With last year’s fantastic Lights Out and now with Annabelle: […]
The Glass Castle (2017)
“Talking is not trying.” Roughly halfway through Jeannette Walls’ subdued, resilient memoir, the family drives their beat-up Oldsmobile lemon through Oklahoma to mining country in Welch, West Virginia. While the […]
A Ghost Story (2017)
“Is there something there?” Contrary to the celebratory nature of work promotions and Olympic podium ceremonies and battlefield war cries, life isn’t a game any one us ever actually wins. […]
Kidnap (2017)
“I’m gonna have to let them take you.” Filmed back in 2014 and shelved until its untimely recent release, Kidnap is so cheap, so thoroughly exploitative and dumb that I honestly can’t […]
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