What makes director Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 so compelling are two things: 1) the moral dilemma is expertly constructed by screenwriter Jonathan Abrams and 2) the audience struggles right along with everyone else trying to come up with the right answer. Nothing is spoon-fed.
Uptight, left-wing Hollywood has killed the movie comedy. So, for those of you who wish to see a “new” comedy, here are two classics, courtesy of George Hamilton, you might have overlooked. Love at First Bite (1979) and Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981) are, in my opinion, perfect comedies — hilarious, rewatchable, quotable, good-natured, filled with romance, and timeless.
I especially love how the movie pulls you in different directions by refusing to tell you what to think. All at once you root for and are repelled by Duddy.
When I asked Biofire for a “smart gun” to review, a member of the PR firm indicated they were not sending models for review.
This is a bad movie undermined by an unforgivably lazy script.
Nothing will ever top the moment when Tracy Chapman’s humanity met America’s modern-day culture — this obscene, cancerous, ignorant, smug, divisive, oversharing, narcissistic, mean-spirited glob of hate and stupidity.
A great movie is a friend for life, something you carry from then on, a two-hour voyage to another place and time with interesting characters and much to think about.
Left-wing novelist Cait Corrain lost her book deal after it was discovered she was sabotaging other authors using fake accounts.
Mamet comes across as honest, a good guy, loyal friend, and prickly writer. That’s to his credit — I mean, that he didn’t leave out the prickly.
Oscar-winning director William Friedkin, who died this week at 87, always seemed to be about 60 years old.
It’s all there in John Wick: Chapter 4; everything we were promised in the previous chapters comes to a head.
Blake is another potent reminder of the power of art. In the end, it’s the art that remains, not the divorces, drug abuse, scandals, or even murder.
The Canik METE SFT is a full-sized 9mm pistol with great ergonomics, ambidextrous controls, flawless function, and spot-on accuracy.
Chilly Scenes of Winter could never be made today. What a shame that is, especially when you learn it was birthed by two women.
The latest true crime limited series, “Madoff: the Monster of Wall Street,” is one of Netflix’s best in a long, long time.
Rings of Power is set thousands of years before Lord of the Rings and revolves around characters I care nothing about.
Well, Samaritan stinks. It’s a total waste of time, of Stallone, of, and, well, it just stinks.
“The Closer” is Dave Chappelle’s fifth Netflix special in just five years. That in and of itself is pretty amazing.
The “Snyder Cut” is never much fun. It takes itself seriously, too seriously, and wants you to take it seriously. And it’s long. Really long.
“Allen v. Farrow,” a four-part HBO series from directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, is everything wrong with our current #MeToo-Woke Gestapo era.
As far as I know, Brian Regan is the only standup comedian who can attract thousands of fans to his live shows even though he’s not a household name and has never starred in a sitcom. This large and faithful following comes from three decades on the road, countless television appearances, a seemingly endless supply of new material, and the fact that you know you’re going to laugh hard. Real hard.
“One Night In Miami” looks cheap, is every bit as contained as the stage play it’s based on, and so simple-minded and one-dimensional you have to believe that staging took place in a high school.
Toxic celebrity worship killed two of HBO’s most celebrated true crime documentaries: The Vow and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.
We love these Rankin/Bass specials for the same reason anyone loves any movie or TV show… We’re charmed and moved by the stories, the songs, the characters, and the performers.
Jack Carr released Savage Son April 14, 2020, and it represents the third action and suspense-packed book in a trilogy by the former real-life Navy SEAL.
Double Tap bravely hands the movie over to Harrelson’s unapologetic redneck Tallahassee, and pits this wonderfully-realized character right up against a commune of woke hipsters.
This moron at CNN who declared Joker “an insidious validation of the white-male resentment that helped bring President Donald Trump to power” might win the award for the most shallow hot take ever.
Te whole affair reeks of Johnson and Johnson’s Massive Ego trying wayyyy too hard to top Diesel, to steal away the franchise. “Hobbs & Shaw” is all kinds of pretty, but it’s also empty-headed and monotonous…
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is not just a movie, it’s an experience — a hypnotic, captivating, immersive tour of a place that probably never was.
Would I have enjoyed The Silence on the big screen? Possibly, but nowhere near as much because it feels like a TV movie, plays like a TV movie, and on TV it works like gangbusters.
In its own way The Highwaymen is as iconoclastic as Bonnie and Clyde — it’s also kind of forgettable … and nowhere near as good.
S. Craig Zahler isn’t paving new ground here, he’s merely rewinding his art back to a freer time, to the wonderful era of 70’s filmmaking.
Sacha Baron Cohen, a fading performer in desperate need of a hit, is probably on his way to producing yet another flop if the mixed-to-bad reviews around his new Showtime series, Who Is America?, are an indicator.
On April 4, 2018, Breitbart News reported that we had frozen our Glock 43 four times, dragged it behind a vehicle, and never cleaned it, yet shot over 500 rounds through it with only two hiccups.
The TalTac Pro Series holster is an outside the waistband (OWB) holster that holds the Glock 19 snug against the body, thereby reducing the chance of printing through t-shirts and making the tried and true Glock a great carry gun again.
Humanity also had me laughing at myself, at me and mine, which is healthy, which actually feels good, and is easy to do when you are in the company of a legitimate satirist as opposed to a left-wing bigot.
If Black Panther is Trump, the villain, Killmonger, is Black Lives Matter. Did I just write that? Yes. I. Did.
NBC’s Taken is in reality the anti-Taken, the Bizzaro Taken — the exact opposite of everything that made the original movie so popular and enduring.
The Heckler & Koch USP Compact in 9mm is a workhorse that refuses to jam, break, or in any way malfunction.
All of this fail comes down to an audience rapidly losing faith in the quality of DC’s storytelling, a faith that will not be resurrected by Justice League.
