Gimme an hour and I'll draw the 200 parallels between this and a vintage Guy Ritchie crime comedy bruiser but let's not waste that time here. It's a full-on Ritchie homage whether it means to be or not, but the good news is, most "Lock Stock" chasers are pretty headache-inducing (they're usually already hand-me-down Tarantino clones, then recycled again through yet another filmmaker's DNA...like that obnoxious try-hard "Gunpowder Milkshake" from last year to name but one example), whereas "Bullet Train"…
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Day Shift 2022
Not to say that this vampire hunting action comedy escapade could only work in bygone times, but I do think if it were released in 1987, well it would still be dismissed by critics but movie lovers and genre fans would embrace it a bit more. It has the curse of being a Netflix Original, aka the modern sight-unseen enemy of any true cinephile. Go ahead, check the profiles of the most hardcore users you follow on Letterboxd. You know…
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Green Room 2015
Pragmatic!
Is the best way to describe this scrappy, intense, black-comedy thriller from the rising master of scrappy, intense, black-comedy thrillers Jeremy Saulnier. Like his debut "Murder Party", this is a chamber piece, confining a young punk band to mostly one room of a neo-Nazi club they made the mistake of playing at, where they become sitting ducks after witnessing a murder. And close quarters suit Saulnier's modus operandi impeccably, as he once again tackles a succinct premise with an…
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10 Cloverfield Lane 2016
Oooh yeah! One of those movies that reignites my love for the medium, not that it was flagging or anything, but this actually thrilled me physically and as a (formerly) prospective writer myself. I never wanted to be avant garde or anything – my dream was to write and/or make smart but accessible entertainment like this (and preferably in genre territory), so to see it pulled off so expertly every now and then in movies like "10 Cloverfield Lane" feels…
