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  • Seven Psychopaths (***½)

    Rockwell and Walken stand out in this black comedy...

    October 15, 2012

    Seven Psychopaths is a movie about…well I’m still processing the film and its many interpretations.  On the surface it’s just a black comedy about crazy people acting crazy telling crazy stories. But more than that, Martin McDonagh’s film is an exploration of screenwriting and a bristling take down (send up?) of male dominated action comedies. It’s a film that will leave you puzzled, especially after a rough first half hour, but the more you open your mind to will prove revelatory, entirely engrossing and incredibly funny. While there are so many recursive elements to the story one could get lost but my pal Mark Johnson summed up the set up beautifully: Seven Psychopaths is the tale of a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who gets mixed up with the mob after his delinquent friends (Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken) kidnap an eccentric gangster’s (Woody Harrelson) precious Shih Tzu.

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    May 16, 2012

    Directed By: Martin McDonagh
    Written By: Martin McDonagh

    Cast: Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Olga Kurylenko, Gabourey Sidibe, Kevin Corrigan, Tom Waits, Zeljko Ivanek

    Synopsis (Courtesy of IMDB): A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster’s beloved Shih Tzu. Read more on Awards Profile: Seven Psychopaths…

    Author: Michael Ward
    November 4, 2011

    Stiller and Murphy and Alda and Broderick, oh my!

    I have to admit that as I settled in to watch Brett Ratner’s “Tower Heist”, I had tempered my expectations way down. Brett Ratner has been a scattershot filmmaker at best, with an off-putting ego to match. The last two holiday seasons, Ben Stiller has sleepwalked his way through a third “Fockers” film in December 2010, and winced noticeably through the wheezing ca$h cow of a sequel in 2009′s “Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian”. Eddie Murphy has not been on screen in more than two years (not counting his vocalizing of Donkey from the “Shrek” franchise), and his track record over the last several years, sans his 2006 Oscar-nominated turn in “Dreamgirls”, has been disposable and unremarkable. And there is just not much of a career anymore for Matthew Broderick, who has struggled to sustain relevancy, and stand apart for being anything more than Sarah Jessica Parker’s husband. “Tower Heist” presents with all the makings of a big budget catastrophe, but after a few minutes, you notice Ben Stiller has an extra zip in his step, the timing amongst the actors feels crisp and on point, and Ratner’s introductions to Alan Alda, Casey Affleck, and Michael Pena are well orchestrated and engaging.

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