Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020)
Birds of Prey is a restlessly fun, unapologetically female action-comedy breathing new life into the DCEU.
Bombshell Needed to Eschew Explosiveness for Subtlety
Though well-intended, Bombshell’s story is simply too big for a feature film runtime.
I, Tonya Comes in Second Place to Scorsese
I, Tonya might be a love letter to disgraced former ice skater Tonya Harding, but it’s also a love letter to Martin Scorsese.
Suicide Squad is a Sugar Rush and Sugar Crash All at Once
Suicide Squad is a feature length trailer. It’s structured like a videogame and plotted like a D&D campaign where everyone’s roleplaying chaotic evil. Anyway, I kinda liked it.
Margot Robbie and Selena Gomez Explain the Global Financial Crisis in The Big Short
“Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.” The above quote appears roughly midway through The Big Short, Adam McKay’s star-studded, irreverent take on 2008’s global financial crisis. It’s an effective encapsulation of a film that operates as the rare piece of ‘edutainment’ that’s both legitimately educational and entertaining while providing a self-reflexive…
Focus (2015)
“It’s all about focus,” Nicky (Will Smith) explains to his willing con artist protégé Jess (Margot Robbie). He’s talking about successful pickpocketing – the way that staring into someone’s eyes will draw their focus to your face rather than your hands, and similar tricks designed to facilitate sleight of hand – but we are expected…
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