Lethal Weapon may have perfected the formula of the buddy cop action film but because 48 Hours beat them to the punch by about 5 years it has its own unique energy that isn’t really been replicated to this day.
Even the comedy has a hard and sinister edge to it. There’s the infamous scene of Eddie Murphy pretending to be a cop in a redneck bar and instead of the obvious humour it feels like something raw and angry.…
An excellently made drama about soldiers getting bored in the desert because they're not committing war crimes. It's a war movie without any battle scenes and how the complete inertia affects these testosterone fuelled meatheads. So many war movies deal with the trauma of combat, this deals with the psychological effects of the complete opposite.
I'm always down for some of the gorgeous Roger Deakins cinematography and this is no different, it's blindingly stark in it's depiction of the Iraqi…
Rocky II might be the most meta movie in existence, because the actual story of the film is literally about Stallone being forced to make Rocky II. That sadly leaves it kind of forgotten in the pantheon of the series and that's a shame since this is such an absolutely worthy sequel to the first.
Firstly it once again feels like a real street level character drama, Rocky, much like Stallone got famous overnight, and so it's about the ramifications…
For the fourth time in a row Denis Villeneuve crafts one of the great science fiction epics of our time and for the fourth time in a row it’s far too goddamn much for me to comprehend in a single viewing. Every single frame and line of dialogue is full of so much texture, depth and detail, there’s so much to unpack, I only truly feel locked into Part One recently after a third viewing but I suspect there’s so…
