Showing posts with label Stephen Root. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen Root. Show all posts

Tuesday, 20 March 2018

Get Out (2017)



A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.

A bit reminiscent of The Stepford Wives, the satire seamlessly turns into outright horror; the movie is at its best conveying the ominously 'liberal' white community.

Thursday, 21 September 2017

Unthinkable (2010)



A black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons set to detonate in the U.S.

Highly dubious test arrangement about torture is unnerving with its contrived plot, stilted dialogues - and it's feigned message (in the extended version).

Maltin*1/2: "Attempts to make Jackson's character appear normal only succeed in making him seem even more psychotic. Other than Sheen's chameleon-like performance, there is no upside here. In fact, the whole movie is unthinkable."