High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewMartin McDonagh Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/martin-mcdonagh/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ Review: Masterful Morality Play (Plus Comedy!) https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri-movie-review/#comments Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:00:58 +0000 Philip Brown https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=88257 ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ is a righteous and angry film. It deals with an unsolved and dismissed crime that rocked a small town, along with the people left harmed in its wake. However, if Martin McDonagh’s brilliant movie were merely about some sort of rise to justice, it wouldn’t be nearly as effective. Frances...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri-movie-review/feed/ 8 TIFF Journal: ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri-movie-review/#comments Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:00:37 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=87220 ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ will likely take multiple viewings to process its achievements. What’s clear from the first round is that writer/director/playwright Martin McDonagh (‘In Bruges’, ‘Seven Psychopaths’) has created something fascinating, darkly hilarious, unexpectedly humane, and maybe even a little profound. The film deliberately avoids easy classifications and turns down roads you’d never...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/seven-psychopaths-review/feed/ 0 The Trailer Park: Patriots and Con Artists https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/trailers-psychopath-dawn/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/trailers-psychopath-dawn/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:00:25 +0000 M. Enois Duarte http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=40337 Two action comedies will hit cinemas fairly soon, but only one of them is intentionally funny. The other just looks laughably stupid. ‘Seven Psychopaths’ This trailer won me over when Christopher Walken refuses to put his hands up just because someone points a gun at him. That’s pretty damn funny. Then we have Colin Farrell...

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