Movie Review – It Comes at Night
It’s time to start paying attention to everything Joel Edgerton does.
It’s time to start paying attention to everything Joel Edgerton does.
Paul Preston’s ongoing effort to watch a movie a day for the rest of his life. Today’s movies – “Catalysis”, “Always”, “The Gift”, “Unbalanced Love”, “The Temptation Game” & “My Father’s Tools”.
There’s a reason Jordan Peele’s feature film directorial debut Get Out has a near-unanimous critic rating – it’s entertaining as hell!
It may have taken nine months, but Universal brings us the first romantic comedy of 2016.
The film goes just far enough with its take on a woman-with-a-gun storyline, any further and you dip into “Bad Girls” territory and the strong female leads become too jokey.
A slow burn foreign horror, that for some, may not fulfill their thriller/horror needs, but for those with more patience that do not mind the long shots that build suspense, trying to throw you off balance, it can be rewarding.
Where one of “these movies” would normally deliver up a ghost, outlandish murderous premise or a roving killer, “The Gift” instead offers up a plausible plot of the past coming back to haunt you.
Showcast Episode 112: It’s a big weekend of new films as The Movie Guys preview “Fantastic Four”, “Ricki and The Flash”, “The Gift” and “Shaun the Sheep: The Movie”. Then it’s off to Hollywood for a live broadcast from The 13th Annual Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival and a funny and candid roundtable with actor Joel Murray about the new documentary “I Am Chris Farley” with plenty of great stories about the late comedian.