Month: September 2018

Review: White Boy Rick (Carson’s View)

The most appealing thing about White Boy Rick is that it is based on a true story. That and McConaughey’s mullet and mustache, which he should keep for every movie he ever makes going forward. I am sure his performance in this movie is praise-worthy, but I don’t think my eyes ever left his mullet….

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Review: Hearts Beat Loud (Garrett’s View)

Have you ever thought about what your favorite chocolate chip cookie is? It can be a fairly tough question because, in the end, all chocolate chip cookies are pretty similar in terms of ingredients and how they’re made. The same can be said of indie drama movies. They usually have a pretty similar feel to…

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Review: A Simple Favor (Carson’s View)

A Simple Favor is anything but simple. There are so many twists and turns throughout this movie that you often forget where you started and no have idea where you are going. You think you know, then you don’t, then you realize you really did know… but you didn’t. All of that may sound like…

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Review: A Simple Favor (Garrett’s View)

So much of the success of A Simple Favor was destined to live and die with the mystery at its center. The mystery can be tiptoed around, peeked at, even played hide-and-seek with. But at some point, director Paul Feig was going to have to drop the setup, take the mystery head on, and get to the…

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Review: The Predator (Garrett’s View)

The Predator is a mess — plain and simple. It is bloated, unfocused, hastily assembled, and at the end of its runtime proves itself to be a wholly unnecessary movie. Arguably worse, it manages to degrade the Predator brand which was already in a state of freefall. The quasi-return of Shane Black to the franchise held a…

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Review: The Predator (Carson’s View)

I came into The Predator with unrealistic and unwarranted expectations. I have been longing for a Predator movie that rivals the original, which is something that hasn’t been achieved in 4 movies over 30 years. I thought for sure that writer/director Shane Black would breathe new life into the franchise with his clever dialog and…

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