Lemon (2017)
“I booked a thing.” Some movies intentionally take us off the beaten path to ill-effect, giving us a bumpy ride without anything meaningful to really latch onto. Take the […]
It Comes at Night (2017)
“Do you have any idea what’s going on out there?” It Comes at Night drills itself into your psyche with a rusty, diseased tip, unfolding in the likeness of a great Shakespearean […]
The Hero (2017)
“Movies are other people’s dreams.” Whether it be male or female (but definitely more unusual for women), roles for actors well past the twilight of their youth come too few […]
Dina (2017)
“That’s what friends are for; to help each other.” Dina Buno has never met a stranger. She chats with whomever happens to be sitting next to her on the bus, tries […]
The Mummy (2017)
“This is not a tomb…it’s a prison.” In the screengrab below, the wholly unlikable douche Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) resigns to a death sentence and pulls the parachute on his […]
Megan Leavey (2017)
“Everything you feel goes down leash.” The best films set during the war in Iraq are not exclusively about war. The Hurt Locker – a rightful Best Picture winner – deals with […]
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)
“Is it okay that I’m kind of loving this?” If you were to trade out the deviant bromance of Superbad for childish potty humor and sprinkle in a dose of Ferris Bueller’s Day […]
The Lobster (2016)
“Have you ever been on your own before?” It’s a bit hilarious to imagine what it’d have been like to be a fly on the wall during The Lobster’s big pitch to […]
Wonder Woman (2017)
“I am not what you thought I was.” Wonder Woman seems to have been conceived through a simple yet radical notion for the film industry; what if you made a gigantic […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
“Filthy pirate.” Pirates of the Caribbean has become what I’d like to label a tee-ball franchise. The hits are easy and don’t sail very far even with such below average hand-eye coordination, […]
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