Imagine a nightmare. What you’re looking for is always out of reach, and everything you’re doing can never be accomplished. Yet even though nothing works, you keep looking, and you keep going. And it it never ends. Worse, you’re not asleep. The credits for Good Time appear as late as fifteen minutes into the film. […]

Following the formula established in The Trip (2011) and The Trip to Italy (2014), actors, comics, and spot-on celebrity impersonators, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon return as fictionalized versions of themselves making another culinary trip, this one to Spain. As with the first two outings, Coogan and Brydon, now writing for The New York Times, […]

Whether the rumor that screenwriter Rebecca Blunt is really a pseudonym for director Steven Soderbergh is difficult to say. Perhaps by the time you read this, someone, somewhere has unveiled the truth. But the real truth is, it doesn’t really matter; it’s a great screenplay, and it’s the backbone that makes this hillbilly heist comedy […]

A funny thing happened on the way to the court room. “My job is to keep you out of harm’s way,” states special protection agent Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) to the man he’s meant to protect. “I am harm’s way,” responds the client, hitman, Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson). It’s the best line in the […]