Month: August 2022
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Heat 2
It’s not perfect, but the novel, Heat 2, by Michael Mann, does a great job of revisiting the world he created in his 1995 film. In 1995 Neil McCauley and his lethal crew of criminals blasted their way through the cool blue streets of L.A. in search of their next big score. Leaving bloody carnage…
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From (2022)
Harold Parrineau was trapped in a jail cell on Oz (1997), trapped on a mysterious island in Lost (2004) and now he’s trapped in a haunted town in From (2022). Mid-May of this year I was invited by a friend to see Shaun Majumder perform his energetic and very funny stand-up act at the Broadway…
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Emily the Criminal
In Emily the Criminal, Aubrey Plaza plays a woman in debt getting sucked into a criminal organization. It’s not perfect, but it’s worth a watch. One of the best things that Emily the Criminal does is capture the zeitgeist of where people are at right now, both financially and mentally. We’re living in a world…
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Prey
Lo and behold, another film in the Predator franchise! In Prey, Amber Midthunder takes on an ugly as heck hunter from space in the 1700s. It’s honestly difficult to keep some of the more generic Predator movies straight in my mind — and it’s already a franchise that varies widely in quality. The high point…
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The Criterion Cut: John Woo’s Hardboiled
In this installment of The Criterion Cut, we look at the film Hardboiled, the classic John Woo actioner, which is playing on the streamer’s site. Between the years of 1986-1992 Hong Kong director John Woo made some of the most innovative action films in the genre. Woo’s distinct style of slow motion, freeze frames, two…