"It's the American Dream in a god-damn gym bag!"
"You work for the American Dream. You don't steal it."
Crows are often viewed as bad omens, but they are also symbolic of change. When three men find a bag containing over four million dollars in a downed plane are they instantly corrupted? Is their true evil nature revealed? Is that bag just an agonist that turns them into exactly what they're supposed to be to thrive in a broken system?…
A tale of gender expression that invoked painful memories for me. Natey Jones' Travis wearing a dress at the request of Alexandra Burke's Candice as he goes down on her only for her to turn around and say, "That was a one-off. We won't be doing that again", with judgment and regret is heartbreaking and cruelly realistic. But unfortunately we also have moments that are more manufactured, like Travis' underdeveloped rivalry with his brother, or his drunk antagonizing of some…
The opening shot lines up our view with Fassbender's, slotting us into the mindset of a professional killer and obsessive perfectionist. With his commentary the movie becomes a methodical but surprisingly funny revenge film; An examination of the way the corporate world demands people forgoe empathy to blaze ahead, among many other things on director David Fincher's mind.
The film lets you know from the jump that boredom is the biggest threat to a killer and it does a great…
Civil War is a movie that will exist beyond this political moment, and I think Alex Garland had to know that as he worked out what the film would really be. People mistake its ambiguousness as being apolitical but it is not interested in just making a stand on a modern conflict despite A24's hopes to incite a reaction by hinting that that is the case. No, this is a simulator; A nerve-shredding reenactment that if people engage the idea…
