Honest Thief (2020) - Movie Review

A Neesonsploitation flick making it to cinemas, at a time when cinema turnout is lower than it’s been in years, might be the least surprising thing to happen in 2020. But quite frankly… well, I’ve been spending all day on festival detail for FilmInk, and I’m in the mood for something simple. Something to get me out of the house (with a mask and adhering to social distancing; I’m a workaholic, not an idiot) and away from my computer for a couple hours. Now, I'm going to try and be fair with this, and judge it on the same metric as all the other Neeson flicks I've reviewed, but as I'll get into, even that isn't going to do this film any favours.

Serenity (2019) - Movie Review

I’m not going to beat around the bush on this one: This film is fucking insane. I see no point in writing a poncy introduction to lead into that simple fact because this is an oh-so-very special kind of insane. The kind that only comes into being through just the right mixture of all the wrong elements in all the right places. The kind that makes the audience just how much of the film is meant to be taken seriously, if it’s meant to be taken seriously at all. The kind that turns a merely bad film into the stuff of bad film legend. It is the frontrunner for Best Worst Movie Of 2019, and if something else comes out that can challenge it, I fear I might end up in a padded cell just for looking at it.

Small Crimes (2017) - Movie Review

The plot: After spending six years in prison, crooked cop Joe (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) has been released. Wanting to make a fresh start, separate from the mob-facilitated jobs he was doing way back when, a favour from his former partner Dan Pleasant (Gary Cole) forces him back into that life. He is tasked with “taking care of” Manny Vassey (Shawn Lawrence), a mob boss who is considering turning informant and unearthing his dealings with the police, including both Joe and Pleasant. However, as he weighs up his options, it seems that his old life has only just begun to come back and haunt him.