After seeing The Nice Guys, I feel like the trailers for the film made it really difficult to decide whether it was going to be good. The trailer gives you non-connected moments before and after what feel like the jokes, so you can’t really tell if the movie is going to be funny or not.…
DetailsWriter / Director Jeremy Saulnier made a huge impression on the cineaste circuit in 2013 with Blue Ruin, a meditative and highly original take on the revenge thriller. It won him the FIPRESCI Director’s Fortnight Prize at Cannes. His follow-up, Green Room, joins the cannon of “under siege” movies – Rio Bravo, Assault on Precinct 13, Night of the Living Dead, The…
DetailsIf you’re looking for complete counter programming to the usual big summer blockbuster movies, then look no further than The Lobster, a weird, dark, funny, look at love and whether we have a human need to be in a relationship. It’s not for everyone, however; there’s nothing mainstream about The Lobster. If you’re looking for…
DetailsWelcome to the Friday the 13th installment of the Weakley Film News! Let’s see if we can find a good horror story here just for the hell of it. In this week’s “Is he going to do action movies forever, now?” story, Liam Neeson has signed on to star in a remake of the hit…
DetailsThere is a moment early on in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising when Dave Franco’s character Pete, a frat brother a few years out of college, is proposed to by his boyfriend at a poker game with his other frat bros, and accepts. As the two young lovers embrace, their three other bros jump up and down in…
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