Geostorm (2017)
“You get us a car. I’ll get us a President.” Believe it or not, Geostorm actually starts with a bit of promise. Its preaches to us through an Al Gore inspired An Inconvenient […]
Category Archives: Thriller
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
“That muscle just for show?” Brawl in Cell Block 99 has no business being as gruelingly long as it is – at times if comes across like a drawn-out and poor […]
Happy Death Day (2017)
“I know what is going to happen before it happens.” It’s quite appropriate that Happy Death Day takes place at the fictional Bayfield University instead of the expected horrors of the standard […]
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
“To be born is to have a soul.” I’ve personally found that the great misreadings in critical reviews and deep studies on the themes of Blade Runner 2049 and the original 1982 […]
American Assassin (2017)
“I am prepared to die a martyr.” At first introduction, Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien) is a man in love. He smiles, proposes to his disarming girlfriend out in the Mediterranean […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
Atomic Blonde (2017)
“Trust no one.” While not outright ditzy or dumb or as cool as it thinks itself to be, Atomic Blonde is a whole lot more boring of a film than its […]
Dunkirk (2017)
“If we go there we’ll die.” Christopher Nolan seems to be a director and a storyteller obsessed by the passage, the overall meaning, and the possibility of exploring different pieces […]
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