This is a very upsetting film, with a lot of troubling issues explored in just under two hours, and while it won’t be an easy-sit for many viewers, Thank You For Your Service is both timely and timeless, a portrait of those who need help but can’t easily attain it for any number of reasons,…
Last year’s thoroughly entertaining and always absorbing true-life boxing movie Bleed for This, from writer/director Ben Younger (Boiler Room, Prime), deserved a lot more than to bomb at the box-office and draw only middling critical responses. What were people expecting? This movie hits all the proper beats, digs in deep to the hardscrabble world that…
Check out this awesome interview with Miles Teller courtesy of NME. War Dogs opens with a damning indictment of the industry of war. Does it make you despair of modern politics? “A lot of my buddies are military and I always looked at it in terms of the sacrifice they’re making for their country or…
With War Dogs, it’s clear that cinematic funnyman Todd Phillips (The Hangover, Due Date, Old School) wanted to make a film that would raise his dramatic credibility as a storyteller. Sort of akin to the transition that Adam McKay made with his blistering financial meltdown drama The Big Short, this new and extremely entertaining film…
