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. […]
“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. […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“This may be our last mission. Let’s make it count.” Reading the title for this movie, which should’ve just been a clean and neat Mission Impossible 5, is enough to induce a headache. […]
“Choose your poison.” Spring is a little horror movie with a little hint of romance that does well enough to make the grade. It passes. Visually though, this is absolutely stunning, […]