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Week of October 13, 2017
Haunted House sound machines help monsters
sleep. First up...
Baby Driver
It’s important to have a good wheelman
because the bus is not a reliable getaway vehicle.
Smartly, the kingpin in this action-comedy
hired the best steersman around.
Indebted to Doc (Kevin Spacey) for some
serious dough, audiophile Baby (Ansel Elgort) pays it back being a lead foot
for an array of heists. Paired with a motley crew of cons (Jamie Foxx, Jon
Hamm, Jon Bernthal, Flea), he endures their eccentricities up until one of them
kills an innocent bystander.
Now all Baby wants to do is hightail it out
of town with his new girlfriend (Lily James).
A frenetically paced chase movie with an
accomplished cast, stylish direction from Edgar Wright and a scintillating
soundtrack that elevates the experience, this cool caper combines old and new
elements from the high-pursuit genre to create something wholly original and
entertaining.
Unfortunately, in the future self-driving
getaway cars will drive you right to jail.
Green Light
The House
The upside to running a home casino is
having Brittany Spears sue you for breach of contract.
The entrepreneurs in this comedy, however,
settle all matters out of court.
When the town scholarship they were relying
on for their daughter’s education falls through, Scott (Will Ferrell) and Kate
(Amy Poehler) have no choice but to turn their friend’s foreclosed home into an
illegal gambling den for their neighbours’ enjoyment.
Starting off small, things quickly snowball
as their clientele increases and their illicit establishment begins to encroach
on a local crime boss (Jeremy Renner).
While it finds both comedic leads playing
familiar parts, for some reason their over-the-top antics actually work in the
confines of this oddball farce.
Nothing more than an amalgamation of
contemporary frat comedies, The House’s saving grace is its generic yet
humorous punchlines.
Incidentally, the easiest way to retain
your gaming license is to become Native American. Yellow Light
The Beguiled
Thanks to President Trump, Civil War
reenactors can apply their skills in the real world
Mind you, this drama takes place during the
first North/South skirmish.
While scouring the woods for mushrooms a
student from a nearby girls’ school stumbles upon an injured Union soldier,
Corporal McBurney (Colin Farrell), and invites him back with her.
The headmistress (Nicole Kidman) tends to
McBurney’s wounds, while her faculty (Kirsten Dunst) and students (Elle
Fanning) swoon over him.
Their affections intensify when he is on
the mend, so he flirts with all of them as gratitude, unaware of each woman’s
jealousies.
Sofia Coppola’s sluggish adaptation of the
Clint Eastwood gothic western told from the female character’s perspective,
this reinterpretation doesn’t do modern women any favours, reducing its leads
to vengeful jezebels. While the ending is rewarding, the road there is
rocky.
Furthermore, the women weren’t responsible
for saving the soldier, medical leeches were.
Red Light
***Hallowheelies***
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow
The worst part of haunting the highway is
all the distracted drivers crowding your curve.
Fortunately, this horror-comedy occurs when
drag racing produced the most road ghosts.
When a gang of teenage hot rodders are
evicted from their soda shop hangout and forced to find new digs, lead foot
member Lois (Jody Fair) volunteers her rich aunt’s (Dorothy Neumann) estate as
their new clubhouse.
Her aunt agrees only if they evict the
ghost haunting it. To exercise it, they hold a rocking costume party that
culminates in a girl-on-girl drag race to the death.
A sequel to 1958’s Hot Rod Gang, this
Halloween themed follow-up released a year later is light on actual drag races
- and is missing the rockabilly interludes that made the original really swing
- but what it does have is twice the zaniness.
Luckily, most people who become ghosts
nowadays have serving and DJing skills.
He’s a Haunted House Music DJ. He’s the…
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