Posts Tagged ‘Drive’
Film Review – The Fall Guy
Fresh off his Oscar-nominated turn in Barbie (2024), Ryan Gosling has returned with yet another exuberant, hilariously charismatic performance in The Fall Guy (2024). He plays Colt Seavers, a movie stunt performer who gets into some hot water with shady miscreants. If that sounds familiar to you, it’s because Gosling played…
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Film Review – Den of Thieves
Somewhere between a frat party and the take-down of an armored car lies this age-old tale of cops and robbers. A testosterone fueled cocktail of bravado and automatics, Den of Thieves is treading in awfully familiar territory. Though instead of being the bug it may…
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Film Review – Manglehorn
In the pantheon of actors who have aged onscreen, one reoccurring motif seems to be the story of the now aged man, withered with a life of memory and regret, must come to terms with their life and find meaning in it all. If this…
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Film Review – A Most Violent Year
In the perception of society, crime equals corruption. Synonymous with each other to the point of perceived mutual exclusivity, it begs the question of whether one can commit crime without being corrupt. With a clean-cut demeanor, Abel Morales, played with a subtle intensity by Oscar…
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Interview – Adam Wingard & Simon Barrett – The Guest
The MacGuffin was part of a small roundtable interview with director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett to discuss their new film The Guest. Wingard and Barrett’s last project together was You’re Next. The Guest is in theaters on September 17, 2014.
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Film Review – The Guest
The guys behind the very successful You’re Next are moving on from animal-masked murderers to just a friendly guy who is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, to say the least. Director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett resurrected an overused scenario and made it their own…
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Film Review – The Rover (Second Take)
David Michôd’s follow-up to the award-winning Animal Kingdom is The Rover. Like Animal Kingdom, it is also set in Australia, but the film is bleaker and has less characters. The Rover is set ten years after “the collapse.” It is never explained more than that…
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Film Review – Getaway
Some movies you can just tell by everything about them that they were thought up in an executive board meeting. Everything from the premise, to the director and casting, through the script to the execution, you can just see it all being brainstormed by people…
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