6 Years (2015)
“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. […]
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
“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, […]
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
“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. […]
Mommy (2015)
“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 […]
The Gift (2015)
“Seemed like a nice guy.” Home is where the heart is, supposedly. Also in house is the resident fear, tucked away in the shadows, creeping and creaking along the floors […]
Fantastic Four (2015)
“You’ve opened a door you don’t know how to close. You don’t know anything about what’s coming.” Was that a sigh of relief or a sigh of disbelief I let […]
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
“Misbehavior will not be tolerated.” Human history proves that power cannot be trusted. There are hidden agendas, secret motives, unwitting participants overseen by all-knowing rulers. Scale that down a bit […]
I Am Chris Farley (2015)
“His commitment was total.” Some of the most difficult deaths to mourn are those of people who made us laugh the hardest. It’s unnatural to associate them with sadness or […]
Unexpected (2015)
“It’s not how I thought it would happen.” No matter what we might think, we are never going to experience a journey alone. There is no such thing as a […]
Vacation (2015)
“This family’s in a rut.” Family vacations are messy. You get stuck in traffic, lose luggage, get sick, start stupid fights. And that’s why they are memorable. You press on […]
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