Category: Movie Reviews
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Play Dirty
3 outta 5 Writer and director Shane Black makes generally zippy, pop entertainment like Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, The Nice Guys, Iron Man Three and The Predator. His latest film, Play Dirty, isn’t quite as zippy as Black’s previous films have been, but it is still a fun caper flick with quippy dialogue and gunfire.…
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The Nice Guys (2016 review)
4 outta 5 Written and directed by Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man Three), The Nice Guys is a hilarious and entreatingly zippy piece of ‘70s noir detective buddy action comedy. As with noir detective stories sometimes a very simple whodunit plot gets overtly complicated but this is really an excuse to have…
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Iron Man Three (2013 review)
4 outta 5 The thing with Marvel’s The Avengers was that it was an uber-superhero movie that blew the genre wide open by being 6 superhero flicks. Iron Man 3 is singular but ambitious since this is kind of indie action thriller with flying robot suits. At times the movie’s determination to strip Iron Man…
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One Battle After Another
5 outta 5 One Battle After Another by writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson is a visceral action thriller that delivers PTA’s distinctive quirky style. There are fun asides, drawn out moments and unexpected random bits of weirdness. There’s also tension, some chases and a few big explosions and some good gunfire. It’s also incredibly…
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
4 outta 5 Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is a decent legacy sequel inasmuch that it doesn’t tarnish the classic film, 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap. Is it as funny or have as many interesting things to say about the music business? Definitely not. But this is still very funny with constant quips, hilarious…
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The Long Walk
4 outta 5 The Long Walk is a gritty grind of a movie. Directed by Francis Lawrence, who specializes in dystopian grind having directed multiple Hunger Games movies and I Am Legend, this is one of his better entries in that genre due to extreme violence giving it bite. This isn’t exactly hopeful; it’s of…
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The Toxic Avenger
4 outta 5 The Toxic Avenger is very silly, gross, horrific, messed up, squishy, dark, comedic and worthy of the Toxic Avenger mantle. The original 1984 film is a cult classic that is more of a gory revenge film than a comedy (although it does get incredibly dopey at times), this is more comedic, but…
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Nobody 2
4 outta 5 Nobody 2 is a fun return to the world of Hutch Mansell and family. It may be missing the shock of the new that jolted the first one (even if it was inherently just sort of a riff on John Wick) but there is some great action here, and the lead performances…
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Weapons
5 outta 5 Weapons is a very intense, messy, weird and gory horror film about grief and scapegoating and family. It is sort of a zombie movie crossed with a possession film with witchcraft horror along with some relationship drama and characters spiraling out. There are a lot of incredibly creepy visuals which keeps the…
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The Naked Gun
4 outta 5 It has been quite a while since the last Naked Gun film, but the franchise has laid dormant for so long probably because it was tied up with the iconic performance of Leslie Nielsen. He is great and those movies are great, as they are dumb but consistently hilarious. Getting Liam Neeson…
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