If you want to make the experience of watching 'Colt .45' an enjoyable drinking game. Be sure to qualify that everyone must drink every time Zachary Scott exclaims that someone needs to either "Shut up" or "Be Quiet!" These phrases are continuously repeated in the script by Tom W Blackburn who started his writing career ghost writing pulp fiction so I can only imagine he tends to make all kinds of short quips more often than most.
The plot starts…
Christine Nielsen's documentary covers one of the more active but certainly lesser known among serial killers in North America. The name Robert 'Willie' Pickton is not likely to ring any bells for most folks unless you lived in the Vancouver area and happened to be down on your luck in the nineties. It seems that Pickton helped a rather wide pool of characters from the impoverished side of town. Whether they were addicted to drugs or merely down on their…
jan Komasa is a talented film maker. His fourth feature is something of a whimsical effort but there's some misplaced concepts shown here that throw off the seriousness of the events. Sticking with the gritty realism of war makes sense. Using various special effects to highlight romantic gestures in the midst of a deadly attack really take the viewer out of the moment. This is repeated on a few more occasions which suggests he was either inspired by 'The Matrix'…
Watching the trailer of this thriller that was adapted from the 2006 novel written by Louis Bayard led me to believe that the pace and the mystery involved in this 19th century yarn was really going to be something to witness. Especially given that this was the third project to have Scott Cooper work with Christian Bale again. I had high hopes given the attention to detail in everything that was presented seemed to have all the earmarks of a…
