What an unexpected little gem this film is. Danny Glover is fantastic as the mysterious Harry, a man that seems to bring a dark energy everywhere he goes, in this case Los Angeles. As he invades the lives of a couple he used to know when they were all still living in the South, things go from bad to worse, and will quickly have you wondering how sinister this story will get.
To Sleep With Anger is a dark comedy,…
This is what you call a "the emperor has no clothes"-film. With a bombastic style The Brutalist tries to appear weighty and profound, but is ultimately vacuous and shallow. Critics seem to love it, or are they just pretending?
The Brutalist tells a very thin story smeared out over a rough 3.5 hours of an immigrant architect that's hired by a wealthy industrialist to construct a tribute project to his late mother. For 2 hours, we follow the main character…
It's always a nice thing when you go into a film not expecting much, and being pleasantly surprised by something better than you had anticipated. Judge Dredd (1995) with Sylvester Stallone was such an abysmally stupid movie that it seemed like the character would never be brought to life again on the big screen. Dredd (2012) is a bit more clever than its predecessor, and dropped the campy comic relief moments. It is, however, still violent as hell.
Dredd is…
A twisted and darkly comic tale of greed and murder, Killer Joe is one hell of a ride. It's bleak. It's sleazy. It's cruel. Every single character is despicable and has no redeeming values whatsoever. And yet, there is comedy to be found in the absurdity, stupidity, and self inflicted misery.
McConaughey plays Killer Joe, a cop who also works as a contract killer. He is hired by the Smith family to murder the mother of the children and former…
