Get Out (2017)
Racist Black Comedy: Get Out (2017) “If I could have voted Obama in for a third term, I would have. Best President this country ever had.” Well, that’s one way to put your affluent white daughter’s black boyfriend at ease: patronise the hell out of him. Then again, since it’s the second time we’ve heard this and Get Out has only been running for twenty minutes, then maybe it’s a sincere statement. Perhaps Daddy did think that a...
Kong : Skull Island (2017)
Show Me The Monkey! Kong: Skull Island (2017) Loved it. Loved it, loved it, loved it. And probably for the ‘wrong’ reason: because it was fun. It was just heart-pumping, kid-on-a-haunted-house ride fun. And it’s a giant monster movie. The kind where giant monsters beat the living bejeezus out of each other. Tons of action and truckloads of… fun. You’re not meant to have fun at these movies anymore, didn’t you know...
Logan (2017)
The New Mutants: Logan (2017) Back in the early ‘eighties I picked up a few copies of a mini-series called Wolverine that was drawn by Frank Miller. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about new X-man. I remember that there was a scene where the berserk title character tore through a crowd of men, ripping and slashing with those famous adamantium claws. At the end of the sequence there’s a voiceover caption of him saying: ...
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