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Widows Review: Good Mourning

Jason Gorber — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:00:36 +0000

Widows is a fascinating hybrid of the arty from writer/director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and the pulpy from author and co-writer Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl). It’s both a sharp, action-filled heist film and a rumination upon revenge. The film begins with Harry Rawlings (Liam Neeson) and his crew of professional thieves making a...

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TIFF Journal: Widows

Philip Brown — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:00:50 +0000

After specializing in a harrowing brand of art house misery in pictures like 12 Years a Slave, Hunger, and Shame, pretty much the last thing anyone expected out of Steve McQueen (no, not that one – the director) was a rollicking heist movie co-written by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl). It didn’t seem like the type...

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‘The Fate of the Furious’ Review: Big, Bald, Bad and Back

Philip Brown — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:00:45 +0000

Crack a Corona, snort some NOS, and do whatever else it takes to kill some brain cells because the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise is back! It’s been two long years since ‘Furious 7’, and thanks to that movie making $1.5 billion worldwide (that’s right), the series is bigger and dumber than ever in its eighth...

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‘The Assignment’ Review: Wait… What?

Philip Brown — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 19:00:04 +0000

Walter Hill was once one of the great exploitation filmmakers capable of delivering tersely entertaining action romps with a little bit of intellect beneath the surface. Sadly, those days are over. Hill’s latest feature, ‘The Assignment’, is an absolute mess, but at least it’s a fun mess. Formerly titled ‘(Re)Assignment’, the film stars Michelle Rodriguez...

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TIFF Journal: ‘(Re)Assignment’

Philip Brown — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 19:00:22 +0000

Walter Hill was one of the great pioneers of the American action movie in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Of course, as Hollywood tends to do, the master was spit out of the mainstream once his style of film went out of fashion. Now he tends to work more on the fringes, making television...

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‘Furious 7’ Review: Magnificently Stupid

Philip Brown — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:00:20 +0000

A parody movie mocking the ‘Fast and Furious’ series is on the way shortly, but can you help wondering why? There’s no way any parody could possibly be as absurd and hilarious as ‘Furious 7’. This latest cinematic ode to shaved heads, tight undershirts, nitrous oxide and latent homoeroticism has comedy covered already. Something special...

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Now Playing: ‘Machete’ Slays Me

Bryan Kluger — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:00:49 +0000

“Machete don’t tweet” is just one of the hilarious lines uttered by Danny Trejo’s iconic character, Machete Cortez, in this new fun-as-hell sequel from Robert Rodriguez. If you pay attention, you might notice that Rodriguez has actually made a ‘Star Wars’ film with Machete in it this time around, complete with machete lightsabers, versions of...

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Now Playing: Furiouser and Furiouser…

Bryan Kluger — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

With more than $1.5 billion in previous sales, Universal rolls out a sixth entry to one of its biggest film franchises this week. Despite awful dialogue and numerous over-the-top, zany action sequences that are more comical than suspenseful, ‘Fast & Furious 6’ will probably push that amount even further. That being said, the movie delivers...

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