Every actor in this movie is a standout; their performance near perfect. I loved how the movie showed the Irish presence in the U. S. Similar to the Godfathers and the Italian presence. NOT that either country sent us only criminals but that their influence was felt EVEN in the criminal world. The tension was palpable; exciting. Those scenes in Chicago, beautiful. Tom Hanks was subdued. Jennifer Jason Leigh, perfect. Perfect. The visual tones were gorgeous; the camera work gorgeous. The cast was so solid - those faces - not a lot of joy but much much character. This is how to make a movie showing so much needless death. By showing the deaths as brutal and having emotional resonance, but not sensational.
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Echo 3
(2022–2023)
A waste and insulting
2 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Why bother? Three wealthy, white, American friends kill and kill again in South America. Two are married. Two are siblings. Who cares. THAT many people (black and brown) are murdered by the two men (white) and their hired crew (generally black and brown) - to save one woman? Really? Yes, she was in a jungle prison but the rescuers did a crash and burn leaving almost no one live and using an army they assembled of mercenaries. All this for an unlikeable and whiny dishonest wife. Movies / shows with as much violence have succeeded in offsetting the violence, at least as much as incessant violence can be offset, by entertaining viewers. Apocalypse Now; Godfather I and II,Road to Perdition, Sopranos, and on and on, with characters I cared about even if I didn't like them. These characters? I just disliked them. And claiming that was the point - some anti-violence anti-U. S. invasion of the Americas - is b.s. The point in making a movie or t.v. Series is to create interesting characters in watchable intriguing entertaining situations. Not to blast and BORE the viewer. I wish I could sue the creators of this show.
Michael: Every Day
(2011)
Funny, smart, touching, and very human
26 November 2022
What a great show! I stumbled into it, had no expectations one way or another, and was sucked in. The two main characters, the shrink and the patient, are likable, very human, and very relatable. The humor is Canadian - wry, a bit self-deprecating, on point. The two leads, the shrink and the patient have messy lives --- because life IS messy. There's a U. S. show,"The Patient" - in which the patient is a sociopath. Gets very strange. This t.v. Show is sociopath-free. It's fun watching characters dip into each other lives. I trying to avoid revealing too much. "Workin' Moms" is another Canadian workplace comedy which is also highly successful (in terms of convincing me love it).
Colin in Black & White
(2021)
A Sweet and Honest Representation of CK's Life
6 November 2021
First of all, in response to another comment or review here, this show does *not* portray all white people as villains. It portrays those particular white people as they are. Those backward high school coaches judged Colin's hair. That DID happen. Backward coaches and teachers equally judged girls by their hair and clothes for decades. (I was there.) It's not just race, although race IS the issue here. The comparison between slavery, when plantation owners assessed and, basically, owned black men, is not too awfully different from white team owners assessing and controlling black players.
I was hoping this series would be as riveting as The Last Dance and it's not. Granted, the set-up is different with actors portraying players/parents, as opposed to the full documentary approach of the Jordan story.
I was hoping this series would be as riveting as The Last Dance and it's not. Granted, the set-up is different with actors portraying players/parents, as opposed to the full documentary approach of the Jordan story.
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