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We Suggest: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Hello, this article will be our chance to give you a suggestion. Need a movie to rent this weekend? A movie night with some friends? A comfort movie after a breakup because that heart of yours is broken? No matter what the reason may be, these are all films that come from OUR suggestion boxes. Whether you watch them or not is up to you. Whether you like them or not, is something we won’t generally criticize, to each his own.
By FilmSnob Reviews.com9 years ago in Geeks
Eye in the Sky Brings Drone Warfare Home
According to a 2015 report from The Intercept, nearly 90% of people killed by drone warfare were not the intended target. But Barack Obama’s cool made the cognitive dissonance so easy that his supporters suspended disbelief as a means to overlooking America’s deadly Eye in the Sky. The film of the same name with Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman and Aaron Paul does at least give us pause and presents a potential scenario of how a course of action plays out on legal, moral and political terms.
By Rich Monetti9 years ago in Geeks
Second Sight: The Talented Mr. Ripley
It occurs to me that even seventeen years after the fact, it might not behoove me to discuss in too much detail the precise state I was in during the creation of this review. Suffice it to say it was not a condition of sobriety, and in the years since, I’ve often wondered: does the movie hold up? Can I actually stand by this review? And now I must face the question head on. Hold on a minute.
By Glenn Kenny9 years ago in Geeks
Movie Mirage: Final Destination 5
mi·rage [mi-rahzh] noun. – an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air. something illusory, without substance or reality. Final Destination 5
By FilmSnob Reviews.com9 years ago in Geeks
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume II Movie Review
Released: 28th April 2017 (UK) Length: 136 Minutes Certificate: 12A Director: James Gunn Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff and Kurt Russel
By Robert Cain9 years ago in Geeks
Second Sight: American Beauty
Nowadays, when people talk about American Beauty, it’s largely in terms of how overpraised it was despite being superficial and facile and full of it and how lame (sorry for the ableist language) that Wes Bentley plastic bag bit was, and so on. So, some of the yunguns in the audience might be wondering, who WERE these yoyos who thought the movie was so great?
By Glenn Kenny9 years ago in Geeks
American Graffiti and the California Strip – What a Coming of Age Vision
When I first saw American Graffiti back in high school, it stood a very short generation removed from me in 1981 and seemed entirely plausible to its 1962 coming of age setting. But watching it last night on my DVD, I couldn’t help but wondering if the so called California Strip actually existed and served as the focal point for this generation in search of itself.
By Rich Monetti9 years ago in Geeks
Beans, Bindle's, and Beatings: A Review of Rock Candy Mountain #1
“FILTHY FUCKING HOBOS!” That sentence above is the opening line in Rock Candy Mountain, written and drawn by Kyle Starks (of Sexcastle and the Rick and Morty comic on ONI press). Not only is that the first sentence, but it is being by screamed by Satan himself in the year 1948, as he punches through the heads of classic looking hobos. If that's not an amazing way to start a series off, then I no longer know what amazing means. That's only a taste of what Rock Candy Mountain has to offer the readers. Sadly, we only get a few pages of Satan before the focus shifts over to the man The Devil is looking for, the mysterious Jackson, who is searching for the infamous “Rock Candy Mountain” of folk song lore. Jackson is riding the rails when he comes across another, albeit vastly different wayward soul (who we come to know as Pomona) and helps him out of a bind, and then the two have to face down the hobo mafia.
By Derek Heid9 years ago in Geeks
We Suggest: Lovely, Still
FilmSnobReviews is run by two people. William, and Phoenix. We can both have the same taste in films, but then again, we both have found our differing opinions and have accepted each others’ “guilty pleasure films.” This will be our chance to give you a suggestion. Need a movie to rent this weekend? A movie night with some friends? A comfort movie after a breakup because that heart of yours is broken? No matter what the reason may be, these are all films that come from OUR suggestion boxes. Whether you watch them or not is up to you. Whether you like them or not, is something we won’t generally criticize, to each his own.
By FilmSnob Reviews.com9 years ago in Geeks
Movie Mirage: Bucky Larson - Born to Be a Star
mi·rage [mi-rahzh] noun. – 1. an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air. something illusory, without substance or reality. Bucky Larson: Born to Be A Star.
By FilmSnob Reviews.com9 years ago in Geeks
