While we may never again get to see Charlize Theron as the almighty Furiosa, THE OLD GUARD cements her status as one of the most badass leading ladies of modern Hollywood. Adapted from the comic book by Rucka and Fernandez, this is the second solid original action movie outing from Netflix this year and I for one am quite happy at the bar that seems to have been set thus far. Right off the bat, we get some pretty top…
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Blade Runner 1982
No other movie (or work in any medium for that matter) so singularly defines me as a human being than this film. I dunno if that’s weird, but I can trace pretty much everything that I’ve ever been interested in or enjoy back to this film. It’s the reason I love rain, the reason I moved to Seattle, the reason I like neon lights and dirty alleyways and Japanese culture and noir and cyberpunk and on and on. Hell, My…
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Knives Out 2019
“It’s a weird case from the start. A case with a hole in the center. A donut.” And, kids, we are talkin about a massive jelly filled, log shaped one for sure! Rian Johnson returns to form with an absolutely spectacular, star studded ensemble whodunnit in the grand fashion of all the great detective stories that helped make this movie possible. He dropped every trick in the book but with such awareness that they in turn became new tricks, but…
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Escape from L.A. 1996
This might be considered one of John Carpenter’s “bad” movies. To that I say, “Carpenter doesn’t make bad movies.” From playing basketball for his life to surfing down Rodeo Blvd, Snake Plissken cements his legend as one of the most badass action heroes to ever appear on the silver screen. Sure, this might be almost identical plot wise to ‘Escape from NY’ but when you come up with a premise that good, who can blame Carpenter for using it twice?…
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