"Ke Huy Quan is such an amiable presence that you sincerely want his characters to succeed. That quality earned him a lot of goodwill for his Oscar-winning performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” and it does the actor a similar solid for his inferior followup, “Love Hurts.” When you’re the star of an ultraviolent, blood-soaked action comedy that’s being pitched as a date movie, you need all the charm you can muster."
I liked this more than most people,…
Bite your teeth into the ass of life!
After you do that, watch one of the great food movies of all time.
Stanley Tucci co-wrote and co-directed this film (with Campbell Scott) and also stars as Secondo, the younger brother of Tony Shalhoub’s Primo. They’re both Italian immigrant chefs who run a restaurant in my beloved state of New Jersey. The duo are purists, but their customers commit mortal sins against their dishes by asking for pasta as a side…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I cannot believe how many of my fellow film critics are reviewing this film (and raving about it) without once mentioning the racial aspects of it. The entire film is built upon the notion of a biracial woman falling for a fucking former neo-Nazi covered in swastika and White power tattoos. If you don't have the balls to talk about that in your review, you shouldn't be doing this job.
And if you're willing to big-up a director simply because…
"Katniss is nowhere to be found here; her battle isn’t for another 64 years. Instead, this is yet another tired entry in the “origin story” subgenre. “Songbirds and Snakes” is all about the rise of Coriolanus Snow, the psychopathic president who rules the nation of Panem and all of its districts. He oversees the deadly games, which serve as punishment for an earlier rebellion against the government.
"In the original “Hunger Games” series, Snow was played by Donald Sutherland, an…
