One of the jokes I keep seeing circulated around about Rogue One is that it’s plot can be described as thus: pew pew pew pew, blam whoosh kaboom. As far as synopses go, it’s not too far off the mark. There’s no doubt about it, Rogue One is an action spectacular, presenting the viewer a vista of…
So, Westerns seem to be coming back a bit, eh? Well… the Western setting. Westerns, I think, as they existed in the 30s-60s, will never truly return. I quite like Westerns, but I don’t particularly miss them. The selection we got from those decades are enough for me. The tone and spirit has changed too…
When I first heard that Ryan Gosling was writing and directing (but not appearing in) his own feature-length film, I got pretty intrigued. When I saw the weird as hell trailer, I got reasonably excited. It seemed that this chiseled Canadian muse took a stylistic page from his greatest patron: the inconsistently attractive Danish oddball…
“America’s not a country. It’s just a business.” –Brad Pitt earns his Junior Cynic badge Killing Them Softly (2012): The Plot: When two dumb criminals (Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn) rob a mob-run card game, hit man Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) gets called in to clean things up. Also, it’s 2008, and organized crime is…
Rooster Illusion 