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Film Review: “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die”

Verbinski embraces human interaction in this offbeat, comical critique

Future man (Sam Rockwell) is mesmerized in ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.’

Director Gore Verbinski, who spent nearly five years in Disney franchise filmmaking while helming the Pirates of the Caribbean series, is one of those rare filmmakers who is unafraid to venture off-the-rails when it comes to unique storytelling (Rango) and/or genre-obscuring tonality (The Mexican, The Weather Man). With Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, Verbinski is once again letting loose and crafting a dynamic, low budget sci-fi adventure that defies categorization.  Continue reading “Film Review: “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die””

Film Review: “Bullet Train”

Welcome to late-stage Brad

Balletic Fighting
Brad Pitt and Bad Bunny star in Bullet Train.

Fading assassins looking to complete the latest job. Low-level criminals looking for a clean exit from the life. Under-loved princesses looking to deal with daddy once and for all. Others looking for nothing more than cold, hard revenge. And in the middle of it all is bucket-hat Brad Pitt. In his latest, Bullet Train (or: Bucket-Hat Brad with a Bullet), Pitt romps, skips, hops, twirls, guffaws, and even sings his way through an overly-complicated, needlessly-sprawling, yet more than semi-entertaining roller coaster. Continue reading “Film Review: “Bullet Train””

Film Review: Joker

I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it anymore

Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker
The Joker prepares for super-villainhood.

It’s too bad that Todd Phillips’s new film Joker has to be about DC Comics character The Joker. Within a fairly conventional origin story, albeit a super-villain origin story, a wrenchingly bleak portrait of unrelenting pain and anguish strains to emerge.

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