Certain Women is all about the performances, and those of all four of the film’s female leads are, without fail, impeccable.
It’s a downward spiral of a movie, going from moderately interesting, to tone deaf, all the way to outright horrible (and ridiculous) come the close.
Admittedly, I am pretty late to the John Wick party. But boy am I glad to finally be on board!
Whoever thought that trying to make a well-dwelling, fourth wall breaking, mass murdering girl sympathetic would be a good idea could not have been more wrong.
“I can’t beat it. I can’t beat it. I’m sorry.”
Trainspotting caught lightning in a bottle. It was very much a product of the ’90s, a snapshot of an alternative, and grittier side of British youth subculture. An effortlessly cool, anarchic classic that resonated with its audience (myself included), and that directly tackled the issues it spoke of with a brutal level of honesty.
“If you have to break things, then by God, you break them!”
La La Land is a film for the dreamers among us all. A tale full of hope, ambition, and joy. And what better place for the aspirational than the movie capital of the world, Hollywood?
Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy) might be looked upon by her teenage peers as a black sheep, but she’s got nothing on the man that she and her unwilling friends are about to be abducted by; James McAvoy’s Kevin Wendell Crumb, aka Dennis, aka Patricia, aka Hedwig…etc. Kevin suffers from dissociative identity disorder, a condition that splits his personality into twenty-three completely separate…
If you were to ask me if I like Silence, then the simple answer would be “yes”. But to give such a simple answer seems like a disservice to what is a complicated film.
What happened, Affleck?
“You’re about to enter the Animus. What you’re about to see, hear and feel are the memories of your ancestor, who has been dead for five hundred years.”
Flicks and Pieces 