Posts Tagged ‘O’Shea Jackson Jr.’
Film Review – Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Den of Thieves (2018) was a hard boiled, testosterone fueled, cops-and-robbers thriller that had just enough good stuff to make it better than it had any right to be. Sure, we’ve seen plenty of heist films where skilled criminals played a game of cat and mouse…
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Episode 133 – Cocaine Bear
For this podcast episode, we review the violent ensemble comedy, Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks. We also tell you which tv shows we’d like to see given a prestige Blu-ray release by the Criterion Collection. For the streaming homework, we review Takashi Miike‘s 2017…
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Film Review – Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) is a spectacular mess. This is an ugly, tensionless blockbuster where characters do stupid things while staring at computer generated, skyscraper-sized monsters battling it out in mundane fashion. It’s a never-ending assault on our visual, auditory, and common senses.…
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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 – Ingrid Goes West
Aubrey Plaza has something of a reputation for being one-note. And if you’re looking to cast a role that’s both brazen and smarmily disaffected, who better really? But there is a depth to Plaza that sometimes claws its way to the surface, as seen in…
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Film Review – Straight Outta Compton
Young talent, dreams of stardom, accelerated rise to fame, sex, drugs, a fall from grace, a saving redemption. The steps of a musical biopic are a tried and true formula, as we’ve witnessed in Walk the Line (2005) and Ray (2004). In that way, F.…
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