Thank You For Your Service (2017)
“I’m not leaving again. I’m home for good.” Movies like Thank You For Your Service are hard to get right. We’ve seen the emotional after effects of war in truly great films […]
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Only the Brave (2017)
“It was one of the most beautiful and terrible things I’ve ever seen.” A standard war film will typically include the same elements: blood, bullets, bodies, a clear victor. Granted, Only […]
Bleed for This (2016)
“He’s an animal.” Here’s a film that wants us to believe in miracles. Think Kirk Gibson’s hobbled and hunched over ’88 World Series game winning home run was an act of […]
War Dogs (2016)
“It’s chaos here.” If War Dogs is to be considered a chaotic film, or even a little shady in its motivations, then one must at least try to scrutinize to what effect […]
Get a Job (2016)
“I need you to step up.” Thanks to the footprint of the internet, we live in a time where nothing really ever dies; instead they’re simply forgotten. That’s what makes Get […]
Allegiant (2016)
“Revenge doesn’t change anything.” At this point, with one more chapter still left doomed to fail, the Divergent Series feels like a set of quadruplets thrust into the hamfisted hands […]
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 […]
Insurgent (2015)
“We were never the problem. We were the solution.” Honestly, I could not tell you what Insurgent was about if I tried. It’s hard not to feel bad for these actors, forced […]
Whiplash (2014)
“Not my tempo.” How do you define greatness? Semantics presumes that there are three key steps. Denotatively Merriam-Webster would say, “exceptionally high quality.” Then you take its connotation – the idea […]
Two Night Stand (2014)
“So your place or mine?” There has to be a logical explanation as to why so many romantic comedies follow the same archetype. Could be the fault of a hapless screenwriter […]
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