The Golden Age of Prostitution

Pretentious is as pretentious does. It is not a good sign for a movie when one of the first things the audience hears is how New York just isn’t New York any more. I’m not sure if New Yorkers know this, but the vast majority of people in this country don’t live in New York…

The Hitman’s Bodyguard. Let’s get this out of the way and get onto the review. Most professional critics, including some of my favorites, hated this movie. Their points are all valid, but I think that the points that they are so critical of are points that are not relevant to what the movie actually accomplished.…

We doubt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle imagined his Sherlock Holmes quite the way Guy Ritchie portrays him on screen. Would he have minded? Now that is the question to pose. We’ve already seen Ritchie’s Holmes in the first movie released in 2009, a daring approach towards a much loved character. All the traditional elements were…

Villain (1971) How about an obscure British movie starring the great Richard Burton and fantastic (and very young) Ian McShane? Never heard of it? Me either, but if you can catch a copy of this somehow, you won’t be sorry. Burton plays the sadistic and murderous gang-leader Vic Dakin. Vic has a few issues and…

The Great White Hunter The last shot of the movie Wind River has a title card stating that no data is kept tracking the number of missing Native American girls. This is a strange way to end a movie that isn’t about missing girls, but is about solving the murder of a Native American girl.…