Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) should have known to get out because before he even meets the parents of his girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Allison Williams), they hit and kill a deer with their car. Then the police officer who arrives on the scene asks to see Chris’ I.D., even though Rose was the one driving. That’s not one, but two different omens that point towards getting the hell out of dodge.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968). This is it, the one that started it all. Where George A. Romero created the modern zombie genre as we know it, launching multiple different sequels, copycats, homages, and parodies like this one that was written by yours truly. With that shameless bit of self-promotion out of the way, let’s get to what the movie’s actually about.
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This movie’s got its title wrong. Instead of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), it should be Harley Quinn (guest-starring the Birds of Prey). (I dare you to say that sentence five times fast.) I suspected as much after 99% of the advertising was Margot Robbie centered, but it’s still disappointing. This movie has an excellent cast that had me hoping that wasn’t going to be the case.
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Right now, I’m enrolled in a Gender and Horror studies class that involves looking at multiple different horror films that deal with gender in some way. Yes, I suppose the title of the course was pretty self-explanatory. I’ve decided to share with you all what it is that I’m up to. The first film in this new series is The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, a movie that can’t make up its mind in regards to its title because it changes in the opening and closing credits alone.
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Recently I found myself with a dilemma because I wanted to see a movie and the one I was going to see, The Turning, got absolutely destroyed by critics and audiences alike. Oh well, now I have more time to read the book as I wait for it to come to Redbox. In the meantime, what else was I going to see? 1917? Not right now. Jumanji? Maybe later. Bad Boys for Life? Tempting due to the surprisingly good reviews it’s gotten, but no. Underwater? Or I could watch a James Cameron double feature of Aliens and The Abysse. Dolittle? God no. I guess that leaves The Gentlemen.
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After watching this movie with my dad, he wondered aloud what it would be like for a newcomer to watch The Irishman. Someone unfamiliar with Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, or Joe Pesci and wouldn’t watch the movie with that background in their mind. To which I responded that a newcomer would watch The Irishman and go ‘yeah, that was good.’ Then they’d watch Goodfellas and go ‘that was awesome.’
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Safecracker Red (Luke Bracey) has just gotten out jail and happily reunites with his family. His wife, Chloe (Nina Dobrev), is an aspiring artist with a whole show on prison walls and is forced to work with this scumbag name Derek Blarney (David Hewlett). His daughter Beatrice (Ella Ryan Quinn) only speaks in French and can turn invisible, somehow. Unfortunately for Red, international assassin Luc Chaltiel (Crispin Glover) not only blames Red for the death of his brother and is hot on his trail for revenge. Along the way, we’re introduced to several other quirky characters in this action-comedy from director and screenwriter Roger Avary.
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Marriage Story concerns the lives of Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlette Johansson), who, after several years of marriage, have decided to get a divorce. At first, my sympathy lay with Nicole because, by all appearances, Charlie was a terrible husband. Then intentionally or not, Nicole does several things that manipulate the situation to her advantage. For instance, she’s the first one to hire a lawyer, Jen (Laura Dern), after they both agreed not to. Then I started feeling sorry for Charlie. Then, after Charlie’s lawyer advises him to settle for terms that would be best for everyone, he decides to view the whole thing as a competition instead and hires another lawyer whose just as underhanded as Jen. So, all in all, Nicole and Charlie are equally awful.
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The film follows a group of main characters who only go by codenames to avoid emotional attachments. And if that sounds familiar to you, it should because that’s writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese reusing the same idea from their previous film, Zombieland. (NSFW)
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I hate this movie. As someone who didn’t like Hereditary, writer/director Ari Aster’s previous film, I wasn’t expecting to like this movie, and it exceeded my expectations in that department. Because not only do I hate this movie, but it’s that particular kind of hate that left me angry after watching it.
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