The Commuter (2017)
Blood on the Tracks: The Commuter (2017) It’s not a super hero movie and Liam Neeson isn’t playing one – as such. Still, as Michael MacCauley, he does get to run faster than a speeding locomotive; dodge bullets; and leap mighty rail tracks in a single bound. And it all happens right here in his latest comedy, The Commuter. What’s that you say? It’s meant to be a thriller? Well, that’s OK too; I can get into that. It...
The Post (2017)
Serving the Governed, Not the Governors: The Post (2017) Best be warned: if you are suffering from even the mildest form of schizophrenia, then a viewing of Steven Spielberg’s The Post is very likely to trigger an attack. Because it’s two films. [Triggering: another one of those whining, nonsensical concepts for a whining, nonsensical age; and yet it seems strangely appropriate here.] Having had a surfeit of superhero...
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Right from the opening scenes, there is no messing about from writer-director-producer Martin McDonagh as he plunges us into the thick of his small town American setting. Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) has been living with the aftermath of her daughter’s murder for seven months now and wants to know why Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) and the local police force are...
Molly’s Game (2017)
‘A Frat House for Degenerates’: Molly’s Game (2017) The screenwriter Aaron Sorkin was responsible for me breaking a promise some years ago. It was only a promise made to myself, but still. I had vowed that I was never going to turn into one of those guys who binge- watches and gorges out on box-sets. I don’t know; it just seems kind of disrespectful to take a carefully-prepared meal down in one huge gulp. Then I came across...
Justice League (2017)
“Now…Let Them Come”: Justice League (2017) Like good ol’ Doc Jekyll quaffing down his nutritious breakfast smoothie and bringing a bad guy out of Hyde-ing, the internet continues to reveal a dark and nasty side to my fellow fantasy film nerds. Seemingly freed from all restraints, they don’t even need to have actually seen a movie anymore before condemning it. Nah, the trailer is enough for gallons of bile to be spewed...
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
The Fracturing of the Soul: Murder on the Orient Express (2017) Early on in this new version of Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery, Inspector Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Brannagh) declares with passion that there exists only good and evil, with nothing in between. It’s hard to see how any human being, let alone one of his brilliance, can have reached the age he is and still maintain such a rigid – and patently...
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