INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS is not
the Coen Brothers best work nor is it their worst. It looks great – The brothers really get the
look and feel of the pre-Beatles early NYC 60’s folk scene right. It’s an earnest film that seeks to build
rapport for the characters in the audience’s eyes but in the end the characters
(with the exception of a comedic long cameo by John Goodman) are unengaging and
the film is inconsequential. Pleasant
but not in any way memorable.
HIDE AND SEEK
The Korean film HIDE AND SEEK
starts off as a taut mystery full of foreboding and the first hour or so
contains a number of genuinely creepy, memorable scenes. It also sets up what seemed to be an interesting
mystery. However, after that it falls
apart as the director seems to have no experience
how to bring a mystery/horror to a satisfying conclusion and instead shows the
big reveal too early and with enough foreshadowing you’d have to be mentally disabled
in some way not to get what was happening before the finale.
COLD COMES THE NIGHT
COLD COMES THE NIGHT is a bad
movie but not a bad bad movie that is dull and stupid but rather a good bad
movie stupid yes but so thoroughly saturated with its own badness it’s sort of
entertaining. This is a failed noir – forgettable
and predictable with the stand out stinky part being Bryan Cranston’s Rocky and
Bullwinkle Boris Badanov Russian accent.
It’s truly awful. Stick with an American
accent, Heisenberg!
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