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Week of December 15, 2017
Real holiday heroes die inside chimneys.
First up…
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
The biggest difference between British and
US intelligence is which side of the road they park the surveillance van.
Sadly, the spooks in this action-adventure
have lost all of their spy gear.
When the Kingsman organization - save for
Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and his quartermaster (Mark Strong) - is wiped out by a
drug baroness, Poppy (Julianne Moore), intent on poisoning her users, the
surviving Kingsman get aid from their American counterpart, The Statesman
(Channing Tatum, Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges).
Now this ragtag team must penetrate Poppy’s
Cambodian stronghold before her toxin takes the lives of millions.
The obligatory sequel to the groundbreaking
original, this overstuffed follow-up features the same eye-popping action but
ad nauseam this time. Furthermore, the cartoonishness of the violence has
seeped into the script and acting, particularly Elton John’s excruciating
performance.
Besides, if you kill all of the
recreational drug users then alcoholics will run rampant. Red Light
Detroit
Rioting nowadays only occurs when a sports
team loses the championship.
However, as this drama reminds us, riots
were once used to protest injustice.
In the wake of a police raid on an
African-American club in 1967 Detroit, Governor Romney dispatches the National
Guard to help local authorities contain the looting on 12th Street.
When shots are fired from a nearby motel,
overzealous officer Philip Krauss (Will Poulter), his fellow guardsmen and a
private security guard, Melvin Dismukes (John Boyega), violently interrogate
the black occupants to find the shooter. Matters escalate when two white girls
are assaulted under Krauss’ twisted game.
A chilling tale of police brutality that
still holds true today, this well-acted and heart wrenching depiction of actual
people and events is hard to watch at times, but harder still to ignore.
Furthermore, be sure to always carry a box
of donuts with you to avoid police harassment.
Green Light
Home Again
The best thing about returning home is your
parents are too weak to boss you around any more.
Unfortunately, the single mom in this
rom-com only has one parent left to abuse.
In the wake of her separation from her
record producer husband (Michael Sheen), fledgling interior designer Alice
(Reese Witherspoon) moves back to LA to live in her filmmaker father’s mansion,
so that her mother (Candice Bergen) can help rear her daughters while she
starts her business.
Alice finds more assistance – and romance -
when she invites three aspiring young filmmakers (Pico Alexander, Jon
Rudnitsky, Nat Wolff) to live with her.
Light on laughs and a plausible love story,
this dissertation on modern middle-aged womanhood is a shallow and delusional
depiction that never finds its lead character rising above her petty sexual
desires.
Besides, the only time men will squabble
over an older woman is when she is a boat.
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***Married Christmas***
The Thin Man
The hardest part of being single at
Christmas is figuring out what gift to get your sex doll.
Luckily, the couple in this whodunit can
verbally communicate their wish list to each other.
When ex-gumshoe Nick Charles (William
Powell) and his heiress wife Nora (Myrna Loy), along with their faithful
terrier Asta, head to NYC for the holidays the last thing they expect to do is
solve a murder. But when a client’s daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) asks him to
find her missing father, Nick has no choice but to help when a decomposed body
turns up.
The first episode in the long-running film
series based on Dashiell Hammett’s fast-talking, hard-drinking, crime solving
couple of independent means, this initial installment is a triumph, not only in
its sleuthing but in the chemistry between Charles’.
Incidentally, sticking a suspect’s tongue
to a frozen pole is a good way to get a confession.
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