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Reviews
Can You Keep a Secret? (2019)
This film is senseless
The characters are distinctive but the dialogue is awful. It is a girl meets boy type movie. Everything thing is predictive...except the girl, Emma, is played so poorly by Daddario the actress. I blame her poor acting on the director and the editor must not have much to work with. Equally, the boy portrayed by Hoechin, is unbelievable as Jack Harper, start-up whole foods rich and hairy handsome. In my opinion all the characters while distinctive as millennial crybabies, the actors needed more direction. This is a waste of time as life is short.
The Darkest Minds (2018)
worth it for only the love scene at the end...
The only thing worthwhile about this flick...is Harris Dickenson. He has to be in the top ten most beautiful men working in cinema today. His striking looks and body movement makes this "Darkest Minds" livable. The rest of the cast are pure frumps from some high-school drama class in Topeka. The story is near worthless although I appreciate the "disappearing" acts. I see from IMDB that Dickenson was the main character in Beach Rats, another hopeless flick about a gay boy (maybe) toughing it in bad Brooklyn, NY. Now I wanna see "Trust" the JP Getty kidnap movie.
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Good performance by Mr Pullman
Riveting performances by all cast members with special shout-out for Lewis Pullman. Very surprised his work not recognized by any award-season organizations.
Running with Beto (2019)
He drives himself!
Very surprised as I WAS a Beto fan before I saw this "behind=the=scenes" documentary. Somehow, I think, the director of this presentation was trying to tell O'Rourke somethings wrong. The disconnect he has with his children who are very, very young is glaring. The kids adore him and only once did we experience (with his very young daughter) a genuine hug and connection. I don't think he cares for his little boys at all. Ditto, same for his wife. So, this documentary is excellent as Beto drives himself all over Texas running against Ted Cruz for US Senate in 2018. The documentary highlights some of the committed volunteers and the energetic crowds. Political campaigns are quite raucous and this film captures this aspect quite well. I will still vote for Beto if he gets the nomination. But, anybody but Trump!
The Dirties (2013)
total waste of time
"piece of crap" is a compliment for this endeavor. Documentary style film making seems to be in vogue and this might have worked if the director or producer had actually employed kids who were 17 or 18, not 25 and 26. Their mannerisms reflect their age and that completely takes the film far from watchable. 2 out of 10 only that I was able to view as long as possible. Do not waste your time on this trash. It is awful. poorly directed, poorly photographed, acting? no Oscars here. I would've preferred watching a Justin Bieber video...over this. Time wasted when life is so short should be a criminal offense. Have I posted the expected 10 lines yet? Let's see....