An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
There’s a pretty decent consensus that this is an extremely solid 4-star movie, and I agree. But, I can’t really say why it’s not a 5-star movie. Can you?
★★★★
Wounded and on the run, Charlie is forced to make a pit stop in desolate New Mexico where she tries to clear the name of a trucker framed for the murder of a local.
Overall, this show ain’t blowing my hair back, but the part when that trucker started singing… that really got me.
Lorde · Pure Heroine · Song · 2013
Royals by Lorde
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, seven disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.
Overall, I liked it but I did feel pretty robbed by the marketing, if you know what I mean…
★★★½
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
I’ve avoided this film like the plague because it felt a lot like disability-tourism: “Wouldn’t it be AWFUL if you had these challenges in YOUR life!?”
But it doesn’t play like that at all. I think it might (not so) secretly be a Christian metaphor about love. The love that exists when you set aside differences and accept other’s short-comings alongside your own. You know?
I’m an atheist but even I know we need more of that in our world.
★★★★
Boston · Boston · Song · 1976
More Than a Feeling by Boston
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
You thought you were watching… and that was your first mistake. If this was intended to be “political” it would have some “politics” in it.
It doesn’t even play like a war film. It’s more like a post-apocalyptic road trip where the protagonists’ only protection is the word “Press”. What makes this frightening is that, on many occasions, that seems grossly inadequate.
★★★★½
Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets a sexy woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.
In 2035, where robots are commonplace and abide by the three laws of robotics, a technophobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.
