The Sheep Detectives is Too Smart to be This Careless – A Review
The sheep look up at the sky and decide that clouds are their dead. It is the kind of joke that should collapse the moment you explain it, yet somehow improves the longer you sit with it. Wool below, wool above. A flock with almost...
Boston Boys are Back in B-movie – A Review
[caption id="attachment_21263" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] God why does Matt Damon always look so fine. Casey Affleck looks like a bum and I don't support him[/caption] This review contains moderate spoilers. Rory needs $32,450. He has worked out the exact cost of dragging his life back into shape, and...
Coyote vs. Acme Refuses to be Written Off – A Review
For seventy-seven years, Wile E. Coyote has been falling. The ground cracks beneath his feet, rockets double back and every road ends with that small white bloom of dust at the bottom of a canyon. Coyote vs. Acme finally allows him to land. He walks...
Crowe and Bale are at their best in 3:10 to Yuma – A Review
This review contains spoilers for 3:10 to Yuma (2007). Ben Wade spends much of 3:10 to Yuma in chains, but Russell Crowe never lets him look like a prisoner. He watches every room with the mild amusement of a man who has already found the exits,...