In honor of Soderbergh’s excellent new film, Logan Lucky, which sees the filmmaker being branded as a master of the heist movie, I thought it would be fun to check […]
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About midway through a The Fencer it occurred to me: there are no movies about fencing. I mean, yes, there probably are, but I’ve never heard of them. It seems odd when […]
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Columbus made a splash at the 2017 Sundance Festival back in January, and is finally making its way to indie theaters. It is the first film from South Korean director […]
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While Patti Cake$ is not as bombastic as its opening moments forecast it to be, it’s ultimately the restraint exercised by first-time filmmaker Geremy Jasper which elevates the film into something larger […]
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On a basic level, there are a lot of things that The Hitman’s Bodyguard does right. For one thing, there are more squibs employed in this flick than in the […]
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At a young age I latched onto the 1993 film Gettysburg (directed by Ronald F. Maxwell) which tells the story of the three day Civil War battle that turned the […]
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Taylor Sheridan’s last two scripts, Sicario, and Hell or High Water are both films that aim to illustrate large social ills—drug cartels, economic disenfranchisement—via neo-Westerns about the nature of manhood. […]
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I remember when I saw the first trailer for Annabelle: Creation in which it explicitly stated that we would be treated to the next terrifying chapter in the ‘Conjuring Universe.’ I […]
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The difficulty of writing about a movie like Brigsby Bear comes from the spoilery nature of its very premise. The trailer advertises a very different movie than the final product, […]
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Soderbergh is back, baby! Logan Lucky is the director’s first film since his “retirement” after 2013’s Behind the Candelabra made for HBO. Dropping out of film (but he directed every […]
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In 2013, writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton broke out of the festival circuit with his widely acclaimed film Short Term 12. The film about a short-term residential foster care facility starred […]
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