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If I were to be asked for a single word to sum up Taylor Sheridan’s new movie Those Who Wish Me Dead, it would be “competent.” It’s a predictable action/thriller but it has three things going for it: acting, storytelling, and the gorgeous Montana scenery.
The Get Together is from a genre I love but don’t see all that often anymore: interlocking stories with different characters who are brought together only by chance being in the same place at the same time. In this instance, it’s a wild house party in Austin. And it belies a sweet, coming-of-age film along the way.
How hard can it really be to write the script for a big budget action movie? The dialogue doesn’t have to be good and the real magic happens when shit blows up or there’s fighting. It might not be something any idiot could do, but if you got two idiots together, you just might have something.
Jason Statham’s character in Guy Ritchie’s new movie Wrath of Man gets the nickname ‘H,’ presumably because anything longer would be a waste of the man-of-few-words’s time.
Released previously in 2015, Seattle filmmaker John Helde is bringing his film Phoebe’s Father back to the Northwest Film Forum to play in its virtual cinema and then become available on streaming formats. This is all good news because Phoebe’s Father is a hidden gem of a movie that affected me deeply.
Reviews of All Sorts, Potato Dreams of America, Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, Super Frenchie, and Too Late.
The opening scene of East of the Mountains is not something I will ever be able to forget. Ben Givens, a retired heart surgeon and widower of a year, is in his Seattle home, holding a rifle (a family heirloom, we learn later), determined to end his life.
Y’all ready for this? I can hardly believe it, but it’s finally here. After missing all of 2020, the Seattle International Film …
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021 | USA | 113 minutes | Adam Wingard) This is a snippet of a conversation I had with …
In pretty much all regards, The Affair is a gorgeous movie to watch. The cinematography is bold and luscious, the cast (without exception) is extremely photogenic, the costume design is fantastic, and there’s even some pretty remarkable architecture. It’s too bad it’s all for naught in this tepid, pre-war drama.
