Posts Tagged ‘Ryan Engle’
Film Review – You, Me & Tuscany
When it comes to rom-coms, we walk into a film with two major questions: 1) “Is it romantic?” and 2) “Is it comedic?” There are plenty of other themes, tangents, and insights that could be explored. But at the very least, it needs to satisfy…
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Episode 115 – Beast
For this podcast episode, we review the Idris Elba versus a rogue lion thriller, Beast. We also extensively discuss the best post-peak performances by actors working past their prime. For the streaming homework, we review the 1963 psychological thriller, Shock Corridor, written and directed by…
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Film Review – Beast
Idris Elba fighting a killer lion. That’s it. That’s all. Need I say more? Beast (2022) takes this simple premise and runs full speed with it. This is a B-level actioner that embraces its straightforward approach. Director Baltasar Kormákur (with writers Ryan Engle and Jamie Primak Sullivan) aims to make this nothing…
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Film Review – Rampage
Rampage (2018) is the kind of movie phrases like “mindless entertainment” were invented to describe. It serves no other purpose than to provide audiences with escapism for two hours. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. Some of the best movies ever made were created to…
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Film Review – The Commuter
The best kind of crime thrillers are those that present a moral dilemma and then puts the viewer in the position of having to choose a side. That’s what makes them so interesting – seeing characters in desperate situations having to compromise their beliefs as…
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