"No Escape" is a 2015 Suspense film featuring Owen Wilson in the rare dramatic role, along with Lake Bell and a cheeky supporting turn from Pierce Brosnan. It's not the BEST film with this title - that goes to the '94 Ray Liotta (RIP) Sci-Fi film- but this movie is a virtually non-stop thrill ride that makes for some solid alternative Father's Day programming.
Wilson plays a dad of the nice, Wonderbread-family type whose biggest problems in life are that…
Why do I keep watching Noah Baumbach films? Every time, I think "This! This is going to be the one that turns me around on Baumbach!" ...and it never is. They never fail to dwell on these misanthropic men who are jerks to everyone around them, especially women, and to drown the audience in this verbose dialogue that sounds like how no human ever speaks. Yes, WE'RE supposed to be critical of these men-children, these immature toxic babies. We're supposed…
Wait, was I asleep? Did we already make a smash movie about Venus and Serena Williams? No? Then why are we telling THEIR story through the lens of 'the man who made the women'??? We should be focusing on the QUEENS, not the "King". Have we not learned anything these past few years?!
2-Minute Review (Spoiler-Free):
Firstly, all the talk about how you might need to watch 35 movies across 2 decades or whatever to see this is overblown. There are MCU films that are so tied to the greater goings-on in those other films that it feels as if you're fundamentally missing something if you're not up on several of the recent ones. You could argue that the previous Spider-Man film was like that, working as much as an epilogue to Avengers:…
