Don’t ask why, because it’s a Shaggy Dog story and really doesn’t matter beyond setting up a punchline; but midway through “Kingsman: The Golden Circle,” super-spy Eggsy Unwin (Taron Egerton) is tasked with inserting a tracker into a woman’s vagina. Said tracker is introduced to said orifice via the wearing of a finger sheath that […]
Dagger Movie Night: “Crazy Stupid Love;” Surprisingly Funny Romantic Comedy May Be Best of its Kind this Year
[Click below to hear the audio version of this review which aired on WAMD 970 AM.] [audio:http://www.daggerpress.com/wp-content/uploads/Crazy-Stupid-Love-movie-review.mp3|titles=Crazy Stupid Love movie review] With a title that gets straight to the heart of the matter, “Crazy Stupid Love,” makes for a surprisingly funny romantic comedy. A lack of restraint to one story line works both for and […]
Weekend Movie Review: ‘Salt’ and ‘The Kids Are All Right’
(Andrew Schwartz/Columbia) “Who is Salt?” inquires the promotional push for the latest Angelina Jolie-starring spy thriller from Columbia Pictures. It’s a question we ponder often during the film, and one whose answer is well explored, unexpected, and not so simple, really. The story proper begins like a punch-line: so a guy walks into the Central […]
Weekend Movie Review: The Lovely Bones, Crazy Heart, A Single Man
The Lovely Bones (Paramount) For a film that tackles such an emotionally weighty topic—namely, the rape and murder of an innocent girl—there is little genuine emotion to be found in The Lovely Bones. Director Peter Jackson, the master craftsman behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy (arguably the greatest filmmaking triumph of the aughts), fills […]
