The Laundromat (2019) - Movie Review

It’s Steven Soderbergh time again! Yep, not content with gracing NetFlix with merely a single feature this year, he’s made another one already. Soderbergh’s workhorse work ethic is one in the growing list of reasons why I bloody love this man’s work, as this isn’t even the first time he’s pulled a double-feature like this. In 2012, he released both the stripping economic dramedy Magic Mike and the action thriller Haywire. In 2013, he made the medical thriller Side Effects and the Liberace biopic Behind The Candelabra, which were supposed to be his last films before retiring but… yeah, like a man with this much creative drive has it in him to just step away from a medium he clearly adores.

The Accountant (2016) - Movie Review

Some of my long(er)-time readers may have noticed that I am not one to shy away from certain aspects of mental disorders. Specifically, when it comes to how modern-day cinema portrays said disorders. As someone who freely admits to using movie-watching as a form of personal therapy (less risky to lash out at a piece of fiction than at an actual person), seeing films use mental conditions that I personally relate to can be a big part of that. Some films do an incredible job with them like Inside Out, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children and X+Y, and some can make a complete dog’s breakfast out of it like Mommy, Love Is Now and the more recent headache of Vaxxed. Today, we have another addition to that canon, except this is something that I don’t think exists in that great a number out there in the larger cinematic world. And quite frankly, we need more films like this.