If Bruce Willis starred in Ilya Naishullerâs âNobodyâ (Perfect World Pictures-87North Productions-Eighty Two Films- Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment, 2021, 92 min.) instead of comic actor Bob Odenkirk, there would be no surprise at all. Odenkirk plays an everyman family guy stuck on a treadmill of work and boredom. When he fails to protect his family during a home invasion, something snaps, and as he pursues the burglars and ends up killing a thug in the Russian Mafia, Odenkirkâs anonymous schlemiel reveals what Liam Neeson in the âTakenâ movies calls âspecial skillsâ.
Odenkirk basically morphs into John Wick, which gives âNobodyâ a blackly comic edge that wouldnât be there if the usual suspects toplined the picture. I adore comedians and comedy writers, and for years Odenkirk was one of those guys who made great comedies like âMr. Show,â âThe Ben Stiller Showâ and âSNL.â He mentored Tim and Eric,
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The Joneses seem like the most stylish, trend setting family on the block. But in reality, they have a hidden agenda that will affect their closest friends and neighbors in surprising ways. As the Joneses plan unfolds, secrets will be revealed and lies exposed, forcing them to turn to the last people on Earth they thought they could ever trust, each other.
Movies with Mary: Unhinged really is unhinged
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Friday night I was at dinner with my game-night ladies and two of the women were talking about the film “Unhinged,” on Amazon Prime. Neither of the women finished the film because they found it so frightening. Of course, I had to watch it.
They were right, it is horrifying. What is so scary is that the character played by Academy Award-winner Russell Crowe typifies the anger that we see so often in today’s society, as in if someone is angry about something, they just go out and shoot a half dozen or more strangers.
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Russell Crowe is an actor I have had a love-hate relationship with over the years.
For as many valid and well-reasoned arguments exist about how nostalgia is a spiritually and culturally ossifying force, human beings and the culture industry that pursues them can’t seem to help the practice. Of all the bands that emerged during the U.K.’s punk rock years, The Clash was perhaps the most explicitly anti-nostalgia; the entire point of the songs was a here-and-now anger. This extended from the no-Elvis-no-Beatles-no-Stones new rule of its single “1977” to the 1981 simulated emergency broadcast of “This Is Radio Clash.” By pointing this out I don’t mean to suggest that The Clash’s music has no validity when heard in 2016. But it signifies very differently.