About halfway through “Atomic Blonde,” our heroine, MI6 super-agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is suddenly faced with getting her wounded informant “Spyglass” (Eddie Marsan) to safety. They’re caught in the middle of a crowded Berlin protest march and a sniper is trained on them from a window somewhere high above the street. Ducking into the […]
Dagger Movie Night: “Mad Max: Fury Road” — An Intense Spectacle with a Human Connection
In the spring of 1990, my eight-year-old self stumbled across “Mad Max” in the backroom of his grandparents’ house. Memory is a fleeting thing, but the image of Goose getting burned alive in that field has stuck with me. Maybe it was because my world at the time rarely ventured outside of Fraggle Rock. Maybe […]
